This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm/compaction: make isolate_freepages start at pageblock boundary
to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-compaction-make-isolate_freepages-start-at-pageblock-boundary.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 49e068f0b73dd042c186ffa9b420a9943e90389a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 12:50:03 -0700
Subject: mm/compaction: make isolate_freepages start at pageblock boundary
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
commit 49e068f0b73dd042c186ffa9b420a9943e90389a upstream.
The compaction freepage scanner implementation in isolate_freepages()
starts by taking the current cc->free_pfn value as the first pfn. In a
for loop, it scans from this first pfn to the end of the pageblock, and
then subtracts pageblock_nr_pages from the first pfn to obtain the first
pfn for the next for loop iteration.
This means that when cc->free_pfn starts at offset X rather than being
aligned on pageblock boundary, the scanner will start at offset X in all
scanned pageblock, ignoring potentially many free pages. Currently this
can happen when
a) zone's end pfn is not pageblock aligned, or
b) through zone->compact_cached_free_pfn with CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE
enabled and a hole spanning the beginning of a pageblock
This patch fixes the problem by aligning the initial pfn in
isolate_freepages() to pageblock boundary. This also permits replacing
the end-of-pageblock alignment within the for loop with a simple
pageblock_nr_pages increment.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Heesub Shin <heesub.shin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dongjun Shin <d.j.shin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sunghwan Yun <sunghwan.yun@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/compaction.c | 22 ++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -666,16 +666,20 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct zon
struct compact_control *cc)
{
struct page *page;
- unsigned long high_pfn, low_pfn, pfn, z_end_pfn, end_pfn;
+ unsigned long high_pfn, low_pfn, pfn, z_end_pfn;
int nr_freepages = cc->nr_freepages;
struct list_head *freelist = &cc->freepages;
/*
* Initialise the free scanner. The starting point is where we last
- * scanned from (or the end of the zone if starting). The low point
- * is the end of the pageblock the migration scanner is using.
+ * successfully isolated from, zone-cached value, or the end of the
+ * zone when isolating for the first time. We need this aligned to
+ * the pageblock boundary, because we do pfn -= pageblock_nr_pages
+ * in the for loop.
+ * The low boundary is the end of the pageblock the migration scanner
+ * is using.
*/
- pfn = cc->free_pfn;
+ pfn = cc->free_pfn & ~(pageblock_nr_pages-1);
low_pfn = ALIGN(cc->migrate_pfn + 1, pageblock_nr_pages);
/*
@@ -695,6 +699,7 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct zon
for (; pfn >= low_pfn && cc->nr_migratepages > nr_freepages;
pfn -= pageblock_nr_pages) {
unsigned long isolated;
+ unsigned long end_pfn;
/*
* This can iterate a massively long zone without finding any
@@ -729,13 +734,10 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct zon
isolated = 0;
/*
- * As pfn may not start aligned, pfn+pageblock_nr_page
- * may cross a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary and miss
- * a pfn_valid check. Ensure isolate_freepages_block()
- * only scans within a pageblock
+ * Take care when isolating in last pageblock of a zone which
+ * ends in the middle of a pageblock.
*/
- end_pfn = ALIGN(pfn + 1, pageblock_nr_pages);
- end_pfn = min(end_pfn, z_end_pfn);
+ end_pfn = min(pfn + pageblock_nr_pages, z_end_pfn);
isolated = isolate_freepages_block(cc, pfn, end_pfn,
freelist, false);
nr_freepages += isolated;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vbabka@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/mm-compaction-make-isolate_freepages-start-at-pageblock-boundary.patch
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