linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2] mm/compaction: Break out of loop on !PageBuddy in isolate_freepages

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Message-ID: <20140307025852.GC3787@bbox>
Date:	Fri, 7 Mar 2014 11:58:52 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:	Laura Abbott <lauraa@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] mm/compaction: Break out of loop on !PageBuddy in
 isolate_freepages_block

On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 10:21:32AM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
> We received several reports of bad page state when freeing CMA pages
> previously allocated with alloc_contig_range:
> 
> <1>[ 1258.084111] BUG: Bad page state in process Binder_A  pfn:63202
> <1>[ 1258.089763] page:d21130b0 count:0 mapcount:1 mapping:  (null) index:0x7dfbf
> <1>[ 1258.096109] page flags: 0x40080068(uptodate|lru|active|swapbacked)
> 
> Based on the page state, it looks like the page was still in use. The page
> flags do not make sense for the use case though. Further debugging showed
> that despite alloc_contig_range returning success, at least one page in the
> range still remained in the buddy allocator.
> 
> There is an issue with isolate_freepages_block. In strict mode (which CMA
> uses), if any pages in the range cannot be isolated,
> isolate_freepages_block should return failure 0. The current check keeps
> track of the total number of isolated pages and compares against the size
> of the range:
> 
>         if (strict && nr_strict_required > total_isolated)
>                 total_isolated = 0;
> 
> After taking the zone lock, if one of the pages in the range is not
> in the buddy allocator, we continue through the loop and do not
> increment total_isolated. If in the last iteration of the loop we isolate
> more than one page (e.g. last page needed is a higher order page), the
> check for total_isolated may pass and we fail to detect that a page was
> skipped. The fix is to bail out if the loop immediately if we are in
> strict mode. There's no benfit to continuing anyway since we need all
> pages to be isolated. Additionally, drop the error checking based on
> nr_strict_required and just check the pfn ranges. This matches with
> what isolate_freepages_range does.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@...eaurora.org>

Nice catch! stable stuff?
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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