[v4] mm: khugepaged: avoid overriding min_free_kbytes set by user

From: Vijay Balakrishna
Date: Thu Sep 17 2020 - 02:39:52 EST


set_recommended_min_free_kbytes need to honor min_free_kbytes set by the
user. Post start-of-day THP enable or memory hotplug operations can
lose user specified min_free_kbytes, in particular when it is higher than
calculated recommended value.

Signed-off-by: Vijay Balakrishna <vijayb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/khugepaged.c | 3 ++-
mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 4f7107476a6f..888802e85162 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -2283,7 +2283,8 @@ static void set_recommended_min_free_kbytes(void)
(unsigned long) nr_free_buffer_pages() / 20);
recommended_min <<= (PAGE_SHIFT-10);

- if (recommended_min > min_free_kbytes) {
+ if (recommended_min > min_free_kbytes ||
+ recommended_min > user_min_free_kbytes) {
if (user_min_free_kbytes >= 0)
pr_info("raising min_free_kbytes from %d to %lu to help transparent hugepage allocations\n",
min_free_kbytes, recommended_min);
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index fab5e97dc9ca..472646aef477 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ compound_page_dtor * const compound_page_dtors[NR_COMPOUND_DTORS] = {
};

int min_free_kbytes = 1024;
-int user_min_free_kbytes = -1;
+int user_min_free_kbytes;
#ifdef CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
/*
* DiscontigMem defines memory ranges as separate pg_data_t even if the ranges
--
2.28.0