mm, page_alloc: fix a division by zero error when boosting watermarks v2
Yury Norov reported that an arm64 KVM instance could not boot since
after v5.0-rc1 and could addressed by reverting the patches
1c30844d2dfe272d58c ("mm: reclaim small amounts of memory when an external
73444bc4d8f92e46a20 ("mm, page_alloc: do not wake kswapd with zone lock held")
The problem is that a division by zero error is possible if boosting
occurs very early in boot if the system has very little memory. This
patch avoids the division by zero error.
Change-Id: I5fd0f5f7b1de88d734475b50070f05c0fd253a0c
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190213143012.GT9565@techsingularity.net
Fixes: 1c30844d2dfe ("mm: reclaim small amounts of memory when an external fragmentation event occurs")
Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reported-by:
Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Tested-by:
Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Tested-by:
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by:
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Git-commit: 94b3334cbebea34d56a7e6321c6fe9d89b309a49
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git
Signed-off-by:
Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
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