@@ -656,16 +656,20 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct zone *zone,
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);
/*
@@ -685,6 +689,7 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct zone *zone,
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
@@ -719,13 +724,10 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct zone *zone,
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;
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled mm/compaction: make isolate_freepages start at pageblock boundary to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.3. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Kamal ------ From ea3195b521c4c26b275f0107135ca2fc4671ef47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 12:50:03 -0700 Subject: mm/compaction: make isolate_freepages start at pageblock boundary 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@suse.cz> Reported-by: Heesub Shin <heesub.shin@samsung.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Dongjun Shin <d.j.shin@samsung.com> Cc: Sunghwan Yun <sunghwan.yun@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> --- mm/compaction.c | 22 ++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) -- 1.9.1