4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> commit b050e3769c6b4013bb937e879fc43bf1847ee819 upstream. Since commit 97a16fc82a7c ("mm, page_alloc: only enforce watermarks for order-0 allocations"), __zone_watermark_ok() check for high-order allocations will shortcut per-migratetype free list checks for ALLOC_HARDER allocations, and return true as long as there's free page of any migratetype. The intention is that ALLOC_HARDER can allocate from MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC free lists, while normal allocations can't. However, as a side effect, the watermark check will then also return true when there are pages only on the MIGRATE_ISOLATE list, or (prior to CMA conversion to ZONE_MOVABLE) on the MIGRATE_CMA list. Since the allocation cannot actually obtain isolated pages, and might not be able to obtain CMA pages, this can result in a false positive. The condition should be rare and perhaps the outcome is not a fatal one. Still, it's better if the watermark check is correct. There also shouldn't be a performance tradeoff here. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Fixes: 97a16fc82a7c ("mm, page_alloc: only enforce watermarks for order-0 allocations") Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -3011,9 +3011,6 @@ bool __zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, if (!area->nr_free) continue; - if (alloc_harder) - return true; - for (mt = 0; mt < MIGRATE_PCPTYPES; mt++) { if (!list_empty(&area->free_list[mt])) return true; @@ -3025,6 +3022,9 @@ bool __zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, return true; } #endif + if (alloc_harder && + !list_empty(&area->free_list[MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC])) + return true; } return false; }
