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Commit 3f0de3d0 authored by Vlastimil Babka's avatar Vlastimil Babka Committed by Dyneteve
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mm/page_alloc: prevent merging between isolated and other pageblocks

@dev-harsh1998: Adjust this for our device

Hanjun Guo has reported that a CMA stress test causes broken accounting of
CMA and free pages:

> Before the test, I got:
> -bash-4.3# cat /proc/meminfo | grep Cma
> CmaTotal:         204800 kB
> CmaFree:          195044 kB
>
>
> After running the test:
> -bash-4.3# cat /proc/meminfo | grep Cma
> CmaTotal:         204800 kB
> CmaFree:         6602584 kB
>
> So the freed CMA memory is more than total..
>
> Also the the MemFree is more than mem total:
>
> -bash-4.3# cat /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal:       16342016 kB
> MemFree:        22367268 kB
> MemAvailable:   22370528 kB

Laura Abbott has confirmed the issue and suspected the freepage accounting
rewrite around 3.18/4.0 by Joonsoo Kim. Joonsoo had a theory that this is
caused by unexpected merging between MIGRATE_ISOLATE and MIGRATE_CMA
pageblocks:

> CMA isolates MAX_ORDER aligned blocks, but, during the process,
> partialy isolated block exists. If MAX_ORDER is 11 and
> pageblock_order is 9, two pageblocks make up MAX_ORDER
> aligned block and I can think following scenario because pageblock
> (un)isolation would be done one by one.
>
> (each character means one pageblock. 'C', 'I' means MIGRATE_CMA,
> MIGRATE_ISOLATE, respectively.
>
> CC -> IC -> II (Isolation)
> II -> CI -> CC (Un-isolation)
>
> If some pages are freed at this intermediate state such as IC or CI,
> that page could be merged to the other page that is resident on
> different type of pageblock and it will cause wrong freepage count.

This was supposed to be prevented by CMA operating on MAX_ORDER blocks, but
since it doesn't hold the zone->lock between pageblocks, a race window does
exist.

It's also likely that unexpected merging can occur between MIGRATE_ISOLATE
and non-CMA pageblocks. This should be prevented in __free_one_page() since
commit 3c605096d315 ("mm/page_alloc: restrict max order of merging on isolated
pageblock"). However, we only check the migratetype of the pageblock where
buddy merging has been initiated, not the migratetype of the buddy pageblock
(or group of pageblocks) which can be MIGRATE_ISOLATE.

Joonsoo has suggested checking for buddy migratetype as part of
page_is_buddy(), but that would add extra checks in allocator hotpath and
bloat-o-meter has shown significant code bloat (the function is inline).

This patch reduces the bloat at some expense of more complicated code. The
buddy-merging while-loop in __free_one_page() is initially bounded to
pageblock_border and without any migratetype checks. The checks are placed
outside, bumping the max_order if merging is allowed, and returning to the
while-loop with a statement which can't be possibly considered harmful.

This fixes the accounting bug and also removes the arguably weird state in the
original commit 3c605096d315 where buddies could be left unmerged.

Fixes: 3c605096d315 ("mm/page_alloc: restrict max order of merging on isolated pageblock")
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/2/280


Signed-off-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reported-by: default avatarHanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
Tested-by: default avatarHanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Debugged-by: default avatarLaura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Debugged-by: default avatarJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.18+]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change-Id: I768a9c4886aa3fe2e827aba682f67bac2dba6f71
Git-commit: d9dddbf556674bf125ecd925b24e43a5cf2a568a
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git


[vinemenon@codeaurora.org: fix trivial merge conflicts]
Signed-off-by: default avatarVinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarShiraz Hashim <shashim@codeaurora.org>
parent f66bbac3
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