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Date:	Mon,  9 May 2016 17:05:04 -0700
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 45/54] mm, cma: prevent nr_isolated_* counters from going negative

3.19.8-ckt21 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

---8<------------------------------------------------------------

From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>

commit 14af4a5e9b26ad251f81c174e8a43f3e179434a5 upstream.

/proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh warns nr_isolated_anon and nr_isolated_file go
increasingly negative under compaction: which would add delay when
should be none, or no delay when should delay.  The bug in compaction
was due to a recent mmotm patch, but much older instance of the bug was
also noticed in isolate_migratepages_range() which is used for CMA and
gigantic hugepage allocations.

The bug is caused by putback_movable_pages() in an error path
decrementing the isolated counters without them being previously
incremented by acct_isolated().  Fix isolate_migratepages_range() by
removing the error-path putback, thus reaching acct_isolated() with
migratepages still isolated, and leaving putback to caller like most
other places do.

Fixes: edc2ca612496 ("mm, compaction: move pageblock checks up from isolate_migratepages_range()")
[vbabka@...e.cz: expanded the changelog]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 mm/compaction.c | 10 +---------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 91357ff..3958143 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -781,16 +781,8 @@ isolate_migratepages_range(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long start_pfn,
 		pfn = isolate_migratepages_block(cc, pfn, block_end_pfn,
 							ISOLATE_UNEVICTABLE);
 
-		/*
-		 * In case of fatal failure, release everything that might
-		 * have been isolated in the previous iteration, and signal
-		 * the failure back to caller.
-		 */
-		if (!pfn) {
-			putback_movable_pages(&cc->migratepages);
-			cc->nr_migratepages = 0;
+		if (!pfn)
 			break;
-		}
 
 		if (cc->nr_migratepages == COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX)
 			break;
-- 
2.7.4

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