linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 35/67] mm: update min_free_kbytes from khugepaged after core initialization

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Message-Id: <20160509071838.988807200@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Mon,  9 May 2016 09:18:40 +0200
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 35/67] mm: update min_free_kbytes from khugepaged after core initialization

4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>

commit bc22af74f271ef76b2e6f72f3941f91f0da3f5f8 upstream.

Khugepaged attempts to raise min_free_kbytes if its set too low.
However, on boot khugepaged sets min_free_kbytes first from
subsys_initcall(), and then the mm 'core' over-rides min_free_kbytes
after from init_per_zone_wmark_min(), via a module_init() call.

Khugepaged used to use a late_initcall() to set min_free_kbytes (such
that it occurred after the core initialization), however this was
removed when the initialization of min_free_kbytes was integrated into
the starting of the khugepaged thread.

The fix here is simply to invoke the core initialization using a
core_initcall() instead of module_init(), such that the previous
initialization ordering is restored.  I didn't restore the
late_initcall() since start_stop_khugepaged() already sets
min_free_kbytes via set_recommended_min_free_kbytes().

This was noticed when we had a number of page allocation failures when
moving a workload to a kernel with this new initialization ordering.  On
an 8GB system this restores min_free_kbytes back to 67584 from 11365
when CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y is set and either
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS=y or
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE=y.

Fixes: 79553da293d3 ("thp: cleanup khugepaged startup")
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
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@...uxfoundation.org>

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

--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -6193,7 +6193,7 @@ int __meminit init_per_zone_wmark_min(vo
 	setup_per_zone_inactive_ratio();
 	return 0;
 }
-module_init(init_per_zone_wmark_min)
+core_initcall(init_per_zone_wmark_min)

 /*
  * min_free_kbytes_sysctl_handler - just a wrapper around proc_dointvec() so