linux-kernel - [21/89] page allocator: update NR_FREE

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Date:	Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:57:23 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: [21/89] page allocator: update NR_FREE_PAGES only when necessary

2.6.31-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>

commit 6ccf80eb15ccaca4d3f1ab5162b9ded5eecd9971 upstream.

commit f2260e6b (page allocator: update NR_FREE_PAGES only as necessary)
made one minor regression.  if __rmqueue() was failed, NR_FREE_PAGES stat
go wrong.  this patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
Reported-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@...il.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 mm/page_alloc.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1167,10 +1167,10 @@ again:
 		}
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
 		page = __rmqueue(zone, order, migratetype);
-		__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES, -(1 << order));
 		spin_unlock(&zone->lock);
 		if (!page)
 			goto failed;
+		__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES, -(1 << order));
 	}
 
 	__count_zone_vm_events(PGALLOC, zone, 1 << order);


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