From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 23:22:15 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: mm, cma: prevent nr_isolated_* counters from going negative
X-Git-Tag: Ubuntu-snapdragon-4.4.0-1050.54~3618
X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1d3c1a9ccbe0375fc29a1e4062578c979155f144;p=mirror_ubuntu-artful-kernel.git

mm, cma: prevent nr_isolated_* counters from going negative

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1580754

commit 14af4a5e9b26ad251f81c174e8a43f3e179434a5 upstream.

/proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh warns nr_isolated_anon and nr_isolated_file go
increasingly negative under compaction: which would add delay when
should be none, or no delay when should delay.  The bug in compaction
was due to a recent mmotm patch, but much older instance of the bug was
also noticed in isolate_migratepages_range() which is used for CMA and
gigantic hugepage allocations.

The bug is caused by putback_movable_pages() in an error path
decrementing the isolated counters without them being previously
incremented by acct_isolated().  Fix isolate_migratepages_range() by
removing the error-path putback, thus reaching acct_isolated() with
migratepages still isolated, and leaving putback to caller like most
other places do.

Fixes: edc2ca612496 ("mm, compaction: move pageblock checks up from isolate_migratepages_range()")
[vbabka@suse.cz: expanded the changelog]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index de3e1e71cd9f..7881e072dc33 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -880,16 +880,8 @@ isolate_migratepages_range(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long start_pfn,
 		pfn = isolate_migratepages_block(cc, pfn, block_end_pfn,
 							ISOLATE_UNEVICTABLE);
 
-		/*
-		 * In case of fatal failure, release everything that might
-		 * have been isolated in the previous iteration, and signal
-		 * the failure back to caller.
-		 */
-		if (!pfn) {
-			putback_movable_pages(&cc->migratepages);
-			cc->nr_migratepages = 0;
+		if (!pfn)
 			break;
-		}
 
 		if (cc->nr_migratepages == COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX)
 			break;