Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: Warn on nr_reserved_highatomic underflow

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 2/25/25 19:45, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> As documented in the comment this underflow should not happen. The
> locking has indeed changed here since the comment was written, see the
> migratetype hygiene patches[0]. However, those changes made the locking
> _safer_, so the underflow _really_ shouldn't happen now. So upgrade
> the comment to a warning.
> 
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240320180429.678181-7-hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx/T/#m3da87e6cc3348a4640aa298137bc9f8f61b76c84
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

Thanks!

> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 5d8e274c8b1d500d263a17ef36fe190f60b88196..715a9cfe162090cca9eb819a34c64f9a1c6db29a 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -3095,6 +3095,7 @@ static bool unreserve_highatomic_pageblock(const struct alloc_context *ac,
>  			if (!page)
>  				continue;
>  
> +			size = max(pageblock_nr_pages, 1UL << order);
>  			/*
>  			 * It should never happen but changes to
>  			 * locking could inadvertently allow a per-cpu
> @@ -3102,8 +3103,8 @@ static bool unreserve_highatomic_pageblock(const struct alloc_context *ac,
>  			 * while unreserving so be safe and watch for
>  			 * underflows.
>  			 */
> -			size = max(pageblock_nr_pages, 1UL << order);
> -			size = min(size, zone->nr_reserved_highatomic);
> +			if (WARN_ON_ONCE(size > zone->nr_reserved_highatomic))
> +				size = zone->nr_reserved_highatomic;
>  			zone->nr_reserved_highatomic -= size;
>  
>  			/*
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 0c789105c9d6c65777c995f4935f2e119d5a31a5
> change-id: 20250225-warn-underflow-7ab0069182e2
> 
> Best regards,