Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] mm/balloon_compaction: isolate balloon pages without lru_lock

From: Rafael Aquini
Date: Tue Sep 02 2014 - 08:33:01 EST


On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 08:41:17PM +0400, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <k.khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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.
>
> 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 73466e1..ad58f73 100644
> --- a/mm/compaction.c
> +++ b/mm/compaction.c
> @@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
> */
> 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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