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mm: compaction: Correct the nr_strict_isolated check for CMA

Message ID 20121016083927.GG29125@suse.de (mailing list archive)
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Mel Gorman Oct. 16, 2012, 8:39 a.m. UTC 
Thierry reported that the "iron out" patch for isolate_freepages_block()
had problems due to the strict check being too strict with "mm: compaction:
Iron out isolate_freepages_block() and isolate_freepages_range() -fix1".
It's possible that more pages than necessary are isolated but the check
still fails and I missed that this fix was not picked up before RC1. This
same problem has been identified in 3.7-RC1 by Tony Prisk and should be
addressed by the following patch.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Tested-by: Tony Prisk <linux@prisktech.co.nz>
---
 mm/compaction.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Rik van Riel Oct. 16, 2012, 12:52 p.m. UTC | #1 
On 10/16/2012 04:39 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Thierry reported that the "iron out" patch for isolate_freepages_block()
> had problems due to the strict check being too strict with "mm: compaction:
> Iron out isolate_freepages_block() and isolate_freepages_range() -fix1".
> It's possible that more pages than necessary are isolated but the check
> still fails and I missed that this fix was not picked up before RC1. This
> same problem has been identified in 3.7-RC1 by Tony Prisk and should be
> addressed by the following patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> Tested-by: Tony Prisk <linux@prisktech.co.nz>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Minchan Kim Oct. 16, 2012, 1:12 p.m. UTC | #2 
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 09:39:27AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Thierry reported that the "iron out" patch for isolate_freepages_block()
> had problems due to the strict check being too strict with "mm: compaction:
> Iron out isolate_freepages_block() and isolate_freepages_range() -fix1".
> It's possible that more pages than necessary are isolated but the check
> still fails and I missed that this fix was not picked up before RC1. This
> same problem has been identified in 3.7-RC1 by Tony Prisk and should be
> addressed by the following patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> Tested-by: Tony Prisk <linux@prisktech.co.nz>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
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Patch

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 2c4ce17..9eef558 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@  static unsigned long isolate_freepages_block(struct compact_control *cc,
 	 * pages requested were isolated. If there were any failures, 0 is
 	 * returned and CMA will fail.
 	 */
-	if (strict && nr_strict_required != total_isolated)
+	if (strict && nr_strict_required > total_isolated)
 		total_isolated = 0;
 
 	if (locked)