[PATCH v2 1/5] mm/compaction: disallow high-order page for migration target

[Joonsoo Kim]

Purpose of compaction is to get a high order page. Currently, if we find
high-order page while searching migration target page, we break it to
order-0 pages and use them as migration target. It is contrary to purpose
of compaction, so disallow high-order page to be used for
migration target.

Additionally, clean-up logic in suitable_migration_target() to simplify
the code. There is no functional changes from this clean-up.

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 3a91a2e..bbe1260 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -217,21 +217,12 @@ static inline bool compact_trylock_irqsave(spinlock_t *lock,
 /* Returns true if the page is within a block suitable for migration to */
 static bool suitable_migration_target(struct page *page)
 {
-	int migratetype = get_pageblock_migratetype(page);
-
-	/* Don't interfere with memory hot-remove or the min_free_kbytes blocks */
-	if (migratetype == MIGRATE_RESERVE)
-		return false;
-
-	if (is_migrate_isolate(migratetype))
-		return false;
-
-	/* If the page is a large free page, then allow migration */
+	/* If the page is a large free page, then disallow migration */
 	if (PageBuddy(page) && page_order(page) >= pageblock_order)
-		return true;
+		return false;
 
 	/* If the block is MIGRATE_MOVABLE or MIGRATE_CMA, allow migration */
-	if (migrate_async_suitable(migratetype))
+	if (migrate_async_suitable(get_pageblock_migratetype(page)))
 		return true;
 
 	/* Otherwise skip the block */
-- 
1.7.9.5

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