linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: compaction: Correct the nr_strict

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Date:	Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:39:27 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Richard Davies <richard@...chsys.com>,
	Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	QEMU-devel <qemu-devel@...gnu.org>, KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arm Kernel Mailing List 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: compaction: Correct the nr_strict_isolated check for CMA

Thierry reported that the "iron out" patch for isolate_freepages_block()
had problems due to the strict check being too strict with "mm: compaction:
Iron out isolate_freepages_block() and isolate_freepages_range() -fix1".
It's possible that more pages than necessary are isolated but the check
still fails and I missed that this fix was not picked up before RC1. This
same problem has been identified in 3.7-RC1 by Tony Prisk and should be
addressed by the following patch.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Tested-by: Tony Prisk <linux@...sktech.co.nz>
---
 mm/compaction.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 2c4ce17..9eef558 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ static unsigned long isolate_freepages_block(struct compact_control *cc,
 	 * pages requested were isolated. If there were any failures, 0 is
 	 * returned and CMA will fail.
 	 */
-	if (strict && nr_strict_required != total_isolated)
+	if (strict && nr_strict_required > total_isolated)
 		total_isolated = 0;
 
 	if (locked)
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