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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>2019-04-25 22:23:54 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-04-26 09:18:05 -0700
commitee8ab0eeb49bd3982090c8f14dc9cc65bcd13c5c (patch)
treed77c45d5e1e6509eff55ec96a318888271419ddf /mm/page_alloc.c
parent24512228b7a3f412b5a51f189df302616b021c33 (diff)
downloadlinux-ee8ab0eeb49bd3982090c8f14dc9cc65bcd13c5c.tar.bz2
mm, page_alloc: always use a captured page regardless of compaction result
During the development of commit 5e1f0f098b46 ("mm, compaction: capture a page under direct compaction"), a paranoid check was added to ensure that if a captured page was available after compaction that it was consistent with the final state of compaction. The intent was to catch serious programming bugs such as using a stale page pointer and causing corruption problems. However, it is possible to get a captured page even if compaction was unsuccessful if an interrupt triggered and happened to free pages in interrupt context that got merged into a suitable high-order page. It's highly unlikely but Li Wang did report the following warning on s390 occuring when testing OOM handling. Note that the warning is slightly edited for clarity. WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 9783 at mm/page_alloc.c:3777 __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x182/0x190 Modules linked in: rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss nfsv4 dns_resolver nfs lockd grace fscache sunrpc pkey ghash_s390 prng xts aes_s390 des_s390 des_generic sha512_s390 zcrypt_cex4 zcrypt vmur binfmt_misc ip_tables xfs libcrc32c dasd_fba_mod qeth_l2 dasd_eckd_mod dasd_mod qeth qdio lcs ctcm ccwgroup fsm dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod CPU: 0 PID: 9783 Comm: copy.sh Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.1.0-rc 5 #1 This patch simply removes the check entirely instead of trying to be clever about pages freed from interrupt context. If a serious programming error was introduced, it is highly likely to be caught by prep_new_page() instead. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190419085133.GH18914@techsingularity.net Fixes: 5e1f0f098b46 ("mm, compaction: capture a page under direct compaction") Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Reported-by: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c5
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 6c6d9f1c404e..d167c48d913c 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3786,11 +3786,6 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
memalloc_noreclaim_restore(noreclaim_flag);
psi_memstall_leave(&pflags);
- if (*compact_result <= COMPACT_INACTIVE) {
- WARN_ON_ONCE(page);
- return NULL;
- }
-
/*
* At least in one zone compaction wasn't deferred or skipped, so let's
* count a compaction stall