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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2024-03-20 21:02:08 +0300
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2024-04-26 06:56:02 +0300
commite6cf9e1c4cde8a53385423ecb8ca581097f42e02 (patch)
tree8a10dba0453bc5f49e3edcd1483fff16deab90b6 /mm/page_alloc.c
parent9cbe97bad5cd75b5b493734bd2695febb8e95281 (diff)
downloadlinux-e6cf9e1c4cde8a53385423ecb8ca581097f42e02.tar.xz
mm: page_alloc: fix up block types when merging compatible blocks
The buddy allocator coalesces compatible blocks during freeing, but it doesn't update the types of the subblocks to match. When an allocation later breaks the chunk down again, its pieces will be put on freelists of the wrong type. This encourages incompatible page mixing (ask for one type, get another), and thus long-term fragmentation. Update the subblocks when merging a larger chunk, such that a later expand() will maintain freelist type hygiene. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240320180429.678181-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Tested-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c15
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 5fa3d534df2f..2c03336def76 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -786,10 +786,17 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page,
*/
int buddy_mt = get_pfnblock_migratetype(buddy, buddy_pfn);
- if (migratetype != buddy_mt
- && (!migratetype_is_mergeable(migratetype) ||
- !migratetype_is_mergeable(buddy_mt)))
- goto done_merging;
+ if (migratetype != buddy_mt) {
+ if (!migratetype_is_mergeable(migratetype) ||
+ !migratetype_is_mergeable(buddy_mt))
+ goto done_merging;
+ /*
+ * Match buddy type. This ensures that
+ * an expand() down the line puts the
+ * sub-blocks on the right freelists.
+ */
+ set_pageblock_migratetype(buddy, migratetype);
+ }
}
/*