This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm: page_alloc: only check the zone id check if pages are buddies
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-page_alloc-only-check-the-zone-id-check-if-pages-are-buddies.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 d34c5fa06fade08a689fc171bf756fba2858ae73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 16:10:10 -0700
Subject: mm: page_alloc: only check the zone id check if pages are buddies
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
commit d34c5fa06fade08a689fc171bf756fba2858ae73 upstream.
A node/zone index is used to check if pages are compatible for merging
but this happens unconditionally even if the buddy page is not free. Defer
the calculation as long as possible. Ideally we would check the zone boundary
but nodes can overlap.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -508,16 +508,26 @@ static inline int page_is_buddy(struct p
if (!pfn_valid_within(page_to_pfn(buddy)))
return 0;
- if (page_zone_id(page) != page_zone_id(buddy))
- return 0;
-
if (page_is_guard(buddy) && page_order(buddy) == order) {
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_count(buddy) != 0, buddy);
+
+ if (page_zone_id(page) != page_zone_id(buddy))
+ return 0;
+
return 1;
}
if (PageBuddy(buddy) && page_order(buddy) == order) {
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_count(buddy) != 0, buddy);
+
+ /*
+ * zone check is done late to avoid uselessly
+ * calculating zone/node ids for pages that could
+ * never merge.
+ */
+ if (page_zone_id(page) != page_zone_id(buddy))
+ return 0;
+
return 1;
}
return 0;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mgorman@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-use-jump-labels-to-avoid-checking-number_of_cpusets.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-do-not-treat-a-zone-that-cannot-be-used-for-dirty-pages-as-full.patch
queue-3.14/mm-non-atomically-mark-page-accessed-during-page-cache-allocation-where-possible.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-convert-hot-cold-parameter-and-immediate-callers-to-bool.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-only-check-the-zone-id-check-if-pages-are-buddies.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-only-check-the-alloc-flags-and-gfp_mask-for-dirty-once.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-do-not-update-zlc-unless-the-zlc-is-active.patch
queue-3.14/mm-swap.c-clean-up-lru_cache_add-functions.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-take-the-alloc_no_watermark-check-out-of-the-fast-path.patch
queue-3.14/fs-buffer-do-not-use-unnecessary-atomic-operations-when-discarding-buffers.patch
queue-3.14/mm-do-not-use-atomic-operations-when-releasing-pages.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-reduce-number-of-times-page_to_pfn-is-called.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-use-unsigned-int-for-order-in-more-places.patch
queue-3.14/mm-shmem-avoid-atomic-operation-during-shmem_getpage_gfp.patch
queue-3.14/mm-do-not-use-unnecessary-atomic-operations-when-adding-pages-to-the-lru.patch
queue-3.14/include-linux-jump_label.h-expose-the-reference-count.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-calculate-classzone_idx-once-from-the.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-lookup-pageblock-migratetype-with-irqs-enabled-during-free.patch
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