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authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>2012-07-31 16:43:53 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-07-31 18:42:45 -0700
commit2cfed0752808625d30aca7fc9f383af386fd8a13 (patch)
tree5e92da86e42e55b253cc04e10545e05b6b472542 /mm
parentee6f509c3274014d1f52e7a7a10aee9f85393c5e (diff)
downloadlinux-2cfed0752808625d30aca7fc9f383af386fd8a13.tar.bz2
mm: fix free page check in zone_watermark_ok()
__zone_watermark_ok currently compares free_pages which is a signed type with z->lowmem_reserve[classzone_idx] which is unsigned which might lead to sign overflow if free_pages doesn't satisfy the given order (or it came as negative already) and then we rely on the following order loop to fix it (which doesn't work for order-0). Let's fix the type conversion and do not rely on the given value of free_pages or follow up fixups. This patch fixes it because "memory-hotplug: fix kswapd looping forever problem" depends on this. As benefit of this patch, it doesn't rely on the loop to exit __zone_watermark_ok in case of high order check and make the first test effective.(ie, if (free_pages <= min + lowmem_reserve)) Aaditya reported this problem when he test my hotplug patch. Reported-off-by: Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar@ap.sony.com> Tested-by: Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar@ap.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar@ap.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 228194728ccd..2e6635993558 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1595,6 +1595,7 @@ static bool __zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, int order, unsigned long mark,
{
/* free_pages my go negative - that's OK */
long min = mark;
+ long lowmem_reserve = z->lowmem_reserve[classzone_idx];
int o;
free_pages -= (1 << order) - 1;
@@ -1603,7 +1604,7 @@ static bool __zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, int order, unsigned long mark,
if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_HARDER)
min -= min / 4;
- if (free_pages <= min + z->lowmem_reserve[classzone_idx])
+ if (free_pages <= min + lowmem_reserve)
return false;
for (o = 0; o < order; o++) {
/* At the next order, this order's pages become unavailable */