[PATCH 3.8 121/121] mm/compaction: make isolate_freepages start at pageblock boundary

[Kamal Mostafa]

3.8.13.24 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

commit 49e068f0b73dd042c186ffa9b420a9943e90389a upstream.

The compaction freepage scanner implementation in isolate_freepages()
starts by taking the current cc->free_pfn value as the first pfn.  In a
for loop, it scans from this first pfn to the end of the pageblock, and
then subtracts pageblock_nr_pages from the first pfn to obtain the first
pfn for the next for loop iteration.

This means that when cc->free_pfn starts at offset X rather than being
aligned on pageblock boundary, the scanner will start at offset X in all
scanned pageblock, ignoring potentially many free pages.  Currently this
can happen when

 a) zone's end pfn is not pageblock aligned, or

 b) through zone->compact_cached_free_pfn with CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE
    enabled and a hole spanning the beginning of a pageblock

This patch fixes the problem by aligning the initial pfn in
isolate_freepages() to pageblock boundary.  This also permits replacing
the end-of-pageblock alignment within the for loop with a simple
pageblock_nr_pages increment.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Heesub Shin <heesub.shin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dongjun Shin <d.j.shin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sunghwan Yun <sunghwan.yun@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ kamal: backport to 3.8-stable: context ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/compaction.c | 22 ++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 3ddb08b..37b848d 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -654,16 +654,20 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct zone *zone,
 				struct compact_control *cc)
 {
 	struct page *page;
-	unsigned long high_pfn, low_pfn, pfn, zone_end_pfn, end_pfn;
+	unsigned long high_pfn, low_pfn, pfn, zone_end_pfn;
 	int nr_freepages = cc->nr_freepages;
 	struct list_head *freelist = &cc->freepages;
 
 	/*
 	 * Initialise the free scanner. The starting point is where we last
-	 * scanned from (or the end of the zone if starting). The low point
-	 * is the end of the pageblock the migration scanner is using.
+	 * successfully isolated from, zone-cached value, or the end of the
+	 * zone when isolating for the first time. We need this aligned to
+	 * the pageblock boundary, because we do pfn -= pageblock_nr_pages
+	 * in the for loop.
+	 * The low boundary is the end of the pageblock the migration scanner
+	 * is using.
 	 */
-	pfn = cc->free_pfn;
+	pfn = cc->free_pfn & ~(pageblock_nr_pages-1);
 	low_pfn = cc->migrate_pfn + pageblock_nr_pages;
 
 	/*
@@ -683,6 +687,7 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct zone *zone,
 	for (; pfn > low_pfn && cc->nr_migratepages > nr_freepages;
 					pfn -= pageblock_nr_pages) {
 		unsigned long isolated;
+		unsigned long end_pfn;
 
 		if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
 			continue;
@@ -710,13 +715,10 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct zone *zone,
 		isolated = 0;
 
 		/*
-		 * As pfn may not start aligned, pfn+pageblock_nr_page
-		 * may cross a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary and miss
-		 * a pfn_valid check. Ensure isolate_freepages_block()
-		 * only scans within a pageblock
+		 * Take care when isolating in last pageblock of a zone which
+		 * ends in the middle of a pageblock.
 		 */
-		end_pfn = ALIGN(pfn + 1, pageblock_nr_pages);
-		end_pfn = min(end_pfn, zone_end_pfn);
+		end_pfn = min(pfn + pageblock_nr_pages, zone_end_pfn);
 		isolated = isolate_freepages_block(cc, pfn, end_pfn,
 						   freelist, false);
 		nr_freepages += isolated;
-- 
1.9.1

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