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| author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> | 2012-12-06 19:01:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-12-06 11:17:33 -0800 |
| commit | 60177d31d215bc2b4c5a7aa6f742800e04fa0a92 (patch) | |
| tree | c45e15fc9b97b3ebffb6f7876512d35fe1d7aa46 | |
| parent | 04c5decdc0aecde43bf44860484f26ee0691335f (diff) | |
mm: compaction: validate pfn range passed to isolate_freepages_block
Commit 0bf380bc70ec ("mm: compaction: check pfn_valid when entering a
new MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES block during isolation for migration") added a
check for pfn_valid() when isolating pages for migration as the scanner
does not necessarily start pageblock-aligned.
Since commit c89511ab2f8f ("mm: compaction: Restart compaction from near
where it left off"), the free scanner has the same problem. This patch
makes sure that the pfn range passed to isolate_freepages_block() is
within the same block so that pfn_valid() checks are unnecessary.
In answer to Henrik's wondering why others have not reported this:
reproducing this requires a large enough hole with the right aligment to
have compaction walk into a PFN range with no memmap. Size and
alignment depends in the memory model - 4M for FLATMEM and 128M for
SPARSEMEM on x86. It needs a "lucky" machine.
Reported-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/compaction.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index 9eef55838fc..694eaabaaeb 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -713,7 +713,15 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct zone *zone, /* Found a block suitable for isolating free pages from */ isolated = 0; - end_pfn = min(pfn + pageblock_nr_pages, zone_end_pfn); + + /* + * As pfn may not start aligned, pfn+pageblock_nr_page + * may cross a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary and miss + * a pfn_valid check. Ensure isolate_freepages_block() + * only scans within a pageblock + */ + end_pfn = ALIGN(pfn + 1, pageblock_nr_pages); + end_pfn = min(end_pfn, zone_end_pfn); isolated = isolate_freepages_block(cc, pfn, end_pfn, freelist, false); nr_freepages += isolated; |