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mm, compaction: prevent VM_BUG_ON when terminating freeing scanner
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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.

[[email protected]: don't rescan pages in a pageblock]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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rientjes authored and torvalds committed Jul 15, 2016
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36 changes: 14 additions & 22 deletions mm/compaction.c
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Expand Up @@ -1009,8 +1009,6 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct compact_control *cc)
block_end_pfn = block_start_pfn,
block_start_pfn -= pageblock_nr_pages,
isolate_start_pfn = block_start_pfn) {
unsigned long isolated;

/*
* This can iterate a massively long zone without finding any
* suitable migration targets, so periodically check if we need
Expand All @@ -1034,36 +1032,30 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct compact_control *cc)
continue;

/* Found a block suitable for isolating free pages from. */
isolated = isolate_freepages_block(cc, &isolate_start_pfn,
block_end_pfn, freelist, false);
/* If isolation failed early, do not continue needlessly */
if (!isolated && isolate_start_pfn < block_end_pfn &&
cc->nr_migratepages > cc->nr_freepages)
break;
isolate_freepages_block(cc, &isolate_start_pfn, block_end_pfn,
freelist, false);

/*
* If we isolated enough freepages, or aborted due to async
* compaction being contended, terminate the loop.
* Remember where the free scanner should restart next time,
* which is where isolate_freepages_block() left off.
* But if it scanned the whole pageblock, isolate_start_pfn
* now points at block_end_pfn, which is the start of the next
* pageblock.
* In that case we will however want to restart at the start
* of the previous pageblock.
* If we isolated enough freepages, or aborted due to lock
* contention, terminate.
*/
if ((cc->nr_freepages >= cc->nr_migratepages)
|| cc->contended) {
if (isolate_start_pfn >= block_end_pfn)
if (isolate_start_pfn >= block_end_pfn) {
/*
* Restart at previous pageblock if more
* freepages can be isolated next time.
*/
isolate_start_pfn =
block_start_pfn - pageblock_nr_pages;
}
break;
} else {
} else if (isolate_start_pfn < block_end_pfn) {
/*
* isolate_freepages_block() should not terminate
* prematurely unless contended, or isolated enough
* If isolation failed early, do not continue
* needlessly.
*/
VM_BUG_ON(isolate_start_pfn < block_end_pfn);
break;
}
}

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