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authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>2016-07-14 12:06:50 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-07-15 14:54:27 +0900
commita46cbf3bc53b6a93fb84a5ffb288c354fa807954 (patch)
tree9f9c1029e2291f6b366c881175f1a2894d246666 /arch
parentf97d10454e4da2aceb44dfa7c59bb43ba9f50199 (diff)
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mm, compaction: prevent VM_BUG_ON when terminating freeing scanner
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> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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