Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] mm/compaction: avoid missing last page block in section after skip offline sections

From: Baolin Wang
Date: Wed Aug 02 2023 - 07:10:01 EST




On 8/2/2023 5:37 PM, Kemeng Shi wrote:
skip_offline_sections_reverse will return the last pfn in found online
section. Then we set block_start_pfn to start of page block which
contains the last pfn in section. Then we continue, move one page
block forward and ignore the last page block in the online section.
Make block_start_pfn point to first page block after online section to fix
this:
1. make skip_offline_sections_reverse return end pfn of online section,
i.e. pfn of page block after online section.
2. assign block_start_pfn with next_pfn.

Fixes: f63224525309 ("mm: compaction: skip the memory hole rapidly when isolating free pages")

The changes look good to me.
But the commit id is not stable, since it is not merged into mm-stable branch yet. Not sure how to handle this patch, squash it into the original patch? Andrew, what do you prefer?

Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/compaction.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index cd23da4d2a5b..a8cea916df9d 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -250,6 +250,11 @@ static unsigned long skip_offline_sections(unsigned long start_pfn)
return 0;
}
+/*
+ * If the PFN falls into an offline section, return the end PFN of the
+ * next online section in reverse. If the PFN falls into an online section
+ * or if there is no next online section in reverse, return 0.
+ */
static unsigned long skip_offline_sections_reverse(unsigned long start_pfn)
{
unsigned long start_nr = pfn_to_section_nr(start_pfn);
@@ -259,7 +264,7 @@ static unsigned long skip_offline_sections_reverse(unsigned long start_pfn)
while (start_nr-- > 0) {
if (online_section_nr(start_nr))
- return section_nr_to_pfn(start_nr) + PAGES_PER_SECTION - 1;
+ return section_nr_to_pfn(start_nr) + PAGES_PER_SECTION;
}
return 0;
@@ -1668,8 +1673,7 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct compact_control *cc)
next_pfn = skip_offline_sections_reverse(block_start_pfn);
if (next_pfn)
- block_start_pfn = max(pageblock_start_pfn(next_pfn),
- low_pfn);
+ block_start_pfn = max(next_pfn, low_pfn);
continue;
}