[PATCH] mm, vmscan: prevent kswapd sleeping prematurely due to mismatched classzone_idx -fix

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Thu Apr 06 2017 - 13:45:53 EST


The patch "mm, vmscan: prevent kswapd sleeping prematurely due to mismatched
classzone_idx" has different initial starting conditions when kswapd
is asleep. kswapd initialises it properly when it starts but the patch
initialises kswapd_classzone_idx early and trips on a warning in
free_area_init_node. This patch leaves the kswapd_classzone_idx as zero
and defers to kswapd to initialise it properly when it starts.

This is a fix to the mmotm patch
mm-vmscan-prevent-kswapd-sleeping-prematurely-due-to-mismatched-classzone_idx.patch

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 2309a7fbec93..76d4745513ee 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -1214,10 +1214,14 @@ static pg_data_t __ref *hotadd_new_pgdat(int nid, u64 start)

arch_refresh_nodedata(nid, pgdat);
} else {
- /* Reset the nr_zones, order and classzone_idx before reuse */
+ /*
+ * Reset the nr_zones, order and classzone_idx before reuse.
+ * Note that kswapd will init kswapd_classzone_idx properly
+ * when it starts in the near future.
+ */
pgdat->nr_zones = 0;
pgdat->kswapd_order = 0;
- pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx = MAX_NR_ZONES;
+ pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx = 0;
}

/* we can use NODE_DATA(nid) from here */