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authorHugh Dickins <[email protected]>2016-05-05 16:22:15 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2016-05-05 17:38:53 -0700
commit14af4a5e9b26ad251f81c174e8a43f3e179434a5 (patch)
tree38edf026215bd254a7cbe13bb47aaf23c641f019 /tools/perf/util/trace-event-scripting.c
parentbc22af74f271ef76b2e6f72f3941f91f0da3f5f8 (diff)
mm, cma: prevent nr_isolated_* counters from going negative
/proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh warns nr_isolated_anon and nr_isolated_file go increasingly negative under compaction: which would add delay when should be none, or no delay when should delay. The bug in compaction was due to a recent mmotm patch, but much older instance of the bug was also noticed in isolate_migratepages_range() which is used for CMA and gigantic hugepage allocations. The bug is caused by putback_movable_pages() in an error path decrementing the isolated counters without them being previously incremented by acct_isolated(). Fix isolate_migratepages_range() by removing the error-path putback, thus reaching acct_isolated() with migratepages still isolated, and leaving putback to caller like most other places do. Fixes: edc2ca612496 ("mm, compaction: move pageblock checks up from isolate_migratepages_range()") [[email protected]: expanded the changelog] Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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