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authorVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>2016-10-08 03:00:37 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-08 04:46:29 +0300
commit9f7e3387939b036faacf4e7f32de7bb92a6635d6 (patch)
treef45ed33dd41fe1b5cea7b4b966d90ef79e9a8363 /mm/compaction.c
parentc2033b00dbe856909fcaccf038e4e0d3dcfb85af (diff)
downloadlinux-9f7e3387939b036faacf4e7f32de7bb92a6635d6.tar.xz
mm, compaction: make full priority ignore pageblock suitability
Several people have reported premature OOMs for order-2 allocations (stack) due to OOM rework in 4.7. In the scenario (parallel kernel build and dd writing to two drives) many pageblocks get marked as Unmovable and compaction free scanner struggles to isolate free pages. Joonsoo Kim pointed out that the free scanner skips pageblocks that are not movable to prevent filling them and forcing non-movable allocations to fallback to other pageblocks. Such heuristic makes sense to help prevent long-term fragmentation, but premature OOMs are relatively more urgent problem. As a compromise, this patch disables the heuristic only for the ultimate compaction priority. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160906135258.18335-5-vbabka@suse.cz Reported-by: Ralf-Peter Rohbeck <Ralf-Peter.Rohbeck@quantum.com> Reported-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com> Reported-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Suggested-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/compaction.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/compaction.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 29f6c49dc9c2..86d4d0bbfc7c 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -997,8 +997,12 @@ isolate_migratepages_range(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long start_pfn,
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPACTION
/* Returns true if the page is within a block suitable for migration to */
-static bool suitable_migration_target(struct page *page)
+static bool suitable_migration_target(struct compact_control *cc,
+ struct page *page)
{
+ if (cc->ignore_block_suitable)
+ return true;
+
/* If the page is a large free page, then disallow migration */
if (PageBuddy(page)) {
/*
@@ -1083,7 +1087,7 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct compact_control *cc)
continue;
/* Check the block is suitable for migration */
- if (!suitable_migration_target(page))
+ if (!suitable_migration_target(cc, page))
continue;
/* If isolation recently failed, do not retry */
@@ -1656,7 +1660,8 @@ static enum compact_result compact_zone_order(struct zone *zone, int order,
.classzone_idx = classzone_idx,
.direct_compaction = true,
.whole_zone = (prio == MIN_COMPACT_PRIORITY),
- .ignore_skip_hint = (prio == MIN_COMPACT_PRIORITY)
+ .ignore_skip_hint = (prio == MIN_COMPACT_PRIORITY),
+ .ignore_block_suitable = (prio == MIN_COMPACT_PRIORITY)
};
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc.freepages);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc.migratepages);