linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] mm, compaction: properly signal and act upon lock and need

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Date:	Fri, 23 May 2014 10:34:55 +0200
From:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...aro.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm, compaction: properly signal and act upon lock
 and need_sched() contention

On 05/23/2014 04:48 AM, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On 23 May 2014 07:49, Kevin Hilman <khilman@...aro.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz> wrote:
>>> Compaction uses compact_checklock_irqsave() function to periodically check for
>>> lock contention and need_resched() to either abort async compaction, or to
>>> free the lock, schedule and retake the lock. When aborting, cc->contended is
>>> set to signal the contended state to the caller. Two problems have been
>>> identified in this mechanism.
>>
>> This patch (or later version) has hit next-20140522 (in the form
>> commit 645ceea9331bfd851bc21eea456dda27862a10f4) and according to my
>> bisect, appears to be the culprit of several boot failures on ARM
>> platforms.
> 
> On i.MX6 where CMA is enabled, the commit causes the drivers calling
> dma_alloc_coherent() fail to probe.  Tracing it a little bit, it seems
> dma_alloc_from_contiguous() always return page as NULL after this
> commit.
> 
> Shawn
> 

Really sorry, guys :/

-----8<-----
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 10:18:56 +0200
Subject: mm-compaction-properly-signal-and-act-upon-lock-and-need_sched-contention-fix2

Step 1: Change function name and comment between v1 and v2 so that the return
        value signals the opposite thing.
Step 2: Change the call sites to reflect the opposite return value.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Make a complete fool of yourself.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
---
 mm/compaction.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index a525cd4..5175019 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -237,13 +237,13 @@ static inline bool compact_should_abort(struct compact_control *cc)
 	if (need_resched()) {
 		if (cc->mode == MIGRATE_ASYNC) {
 			cc->contended = true;
-			return false;
+			return true;
 		}
 
 		cond_resched();
 	}
 
-	return true;
+	return false;
 }
 
 /* Returns true if the page is within a block suitable for migration to */
-- 
1.8.4.5


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