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| author | David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> | 2016-07-14 12:06:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-08-10 11:49:25 +0200 |
| commit | 41a3b3cbb6846247f36e09f96f3680f94791f8b8 (patch) | |
| tree | 3fcde93fda0e83ae0deb902c35a8067e3169d07f /mm/page_alloc.c | |
| parent | d32978b8f50e2a1f14dd9a0dd64f563638dafb5a (diff) | |
mm, compaction: prevent VM_BUG_ON when terminating freeing scanner
commit a46cbf3bc53b6a93fb84a5ffb288c354fa807954 upstream.
It's possible to isolate some freepages in a pageblock and then fail
split_free_page() due to the low watermark check. In this case, we hit
VM_BUG_ON() because the freeing scanner terminated early without a
contended lock or enough freepages.
This should never have been a VM_BUG_ON() since it's not a fatal
condition. It should have been a VM_WARN_ON() at best, or even handled
gracefully.
Regardless, we need to terminate anytime the full pageblock scan was not
done. The logic belongs in isolate_freepages_block(), so handle its
state gracefully by terminating the pageblock loop and making a note to
restart at the same pageblock next time since it was not possible to
complete the scan this time.
[rientjes@google.com: don't rescan pages in a pageblock]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1607111244150.83138@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1606291436300.145590@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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