Re: [PATCH] mm: fix special case -1 order check in compact_finished

[Mel Gorman]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 02:38:31PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> 56de7263 (mm: compaction: direct compact when a high-order allocation
> fails) introduced a check for cc->order == -1 in compact_finished. We
> should continue compacting in that case because the request came from
> userspace and there is no particular order to compact for.
> 
> The check is, however, done after zone_watermark_ok which uses order as
> a right hand argument for shifts. Not only watermark check is pointless
> if we can break out without it but it also uses 1 << -1 which is not
> well defined (at least from C standard). Let's move the -1 check above
> zone_watermark_ok.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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