Since commit 6aa303defb74 ("mm, vmscan: only allocate and reclaim from
zones with pages managed by the buddy allocator") only zones with free
memory are included in a built zonelist. This is problematic when e.g.
all memory of a zone has been ballooned out when zonelists are being
rebuilt.
The decision whether to rebuild the zonelists when onlining new memory
is done based on populated_zone() returning 0 for the zone the memory
will be added to. The new zone is added to the zonelists only, if it
has free memory pages (managed_zone() returns a non-zero value) after
the memory has been onlined. This implies, that onlining memory will
always free the added pages to the allocator immediately, but this is
not true in all cases: when e.g. running as a Xen guest the onlined
new memory will be added only to the ballooned memory list, it will be
freed only when the guest is being ballooned up afterwards.
Another problem with using managed_zone() for the decision whether a
zone is being added to the zonelists is, that a zone with all memory
used will in fact be removed from all zonelists in case the zonelists
happen to be rebuilt.
Use populated_zone() when building a zonelist as it has been done
before that commit.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 6aa303defb74 ("mm, vmscan: only allocate and reclaim from zones with pages managed by the buddy allocator")
Reported-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
---
V2:
- updated commit message (Michal Hocko)
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index bdc8f60ae462..3d0662af3289 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -6128,7 +6128,7 @@ static int build_zonerefs_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct zoneref *zonerefs)
do {
zone_type--;
zone = pgdat->node_zones + zone_type;
- if (managed_zone(zone)) {
+ if (populated_zone(zone)) {
zoneref_set_zone(zone, &zonerefs[nr_zones++]);
check_highest_zone(zone_type);
}
--
2.34.1
