Re: [PATCH 3/7] mm/balloon_compaction: isolate balloon pages without lru_lock

From: Rafael Aquini
Date: Wed Aug 20 2014 - 19:35:26 EST


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 07:04:46PM +0400, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> LRU-lock isn't required for balloon page isolation. This check makes migration
> of some ballooned pages mostly impossible because isolate_migratepages_range()
> drops LRU lock periodically.
>
just for historical/explanatory purposes: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/6/183

> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <k.khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v3.8
> ---
> mm/compaction.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
> index 21bf292..0653f5f 100644
> --- a/mm/compaction.c
> +++ b/mm/compaction.c
> @@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ isolate_migratepages_range(struct zone *zone, struct compact_control *cc,
> */
> if (!PageLRU(page)) {
> if (unlikely(balloon_page_movable(page))) {
> - if (locked && balloon_page_isolate(page)) {
> + if (balloon_page_isolate(page)) {
> /* Successfully isolated */
> goto isolate_success;
> }
>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx>
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