mm/page_alloc: restrict max order of merging on isolated pageblock
authorJoonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Thu, 13 Nov 2014 23:19:21 +0000 (15:19 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 00:17:05 +0000 (16:17 -0800)
commit3c605096d3158216ba9326a16266f6ba128c2c8d
treefcc0f17ba915ae956a8775b9e2a491e540e37ae3
parent8f82b55dd558a74fc33d69a1f2c2605d0cd2c908
mm/page_alloc: restrict max order of merging on isolated pageblock

Current pageblock isolation logic could isolate each pageblock
individually.  This causes freepage accounting problem if freepage with
pageblock order on isolate pageblock is merged with other freepage on
normal pageblock.  We can prevent merging by restricting max order of
merging to pageblock order if freepage is on isolate pageblock.

A side-effect of this change is that there could be non-merged buddy
freepage even if finishing pageblock isolation, because undoing
pageblock isolation is just to move freepage from isolate buddy list to
normal buddy list rather than to consider merging.  So, the patch also
makes undoing pageblock isolation consider freepage merge.  When
un-isolation, freepage with more than pageblock order and it's buddy are
checked.  If they are on normal pageblock, instead of just moving, we
isolate the freepage and free it in order to get merged.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <[email protected]>
Cc: Tang Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[email protected]>
Cc: Wen Congyang <[email protected]>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]>
Cc: Laura Abbott <[email protected]>
Cc: Heesub Shin <[email protected]>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <[email protected]>
Cc: Ritesh Harjani <[email protected]>
Cc: Gioh Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
mm/internal.h
mm/page_alloc.c
mm/page_isolation.c