linux-kernel - Re: BUG: scheduling while atomic: cron/668/0x10c9a0c0 (was: Re: mm, page_alloc: avoid looking up the first zone in a zonelist twice)

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Date:	Mon, 30 May 2016 19:56:16 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	linux-m68k <linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: BUG: scheduling while atomic: cron/668/0x10c9a0c0 (was: Re: mm,
 page_alloc: avoid looking up the first zone in a zonelist twice)

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 07:37:39PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > index dba8cfd0b2d6..f2c1e47adc11 100644
> > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > @@ -3232,6 +3232,9 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
> >                  * allocations are system rather than user orientated
> >                  */
> >                 ac->zonelist = node_zonelist(numa_node_id(), gfp_mask);
> > +               ac->preferred_zoneref = first_zones_zonelist(ac->zonelist,
> > +                                       ac->high_zoneidx, ac->nodemask);
> > +               ac->classzone_idx = zonelist_zone_idx(ac->preferred_zoneref);
> >                 page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask, order,
> >                                                 ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS, ac);
> >                 if (page)
> 
> Thanks, but unfortunately it doesn't help.
> 

Thanks. Please try the following instead

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index bb320cde4d6d..557549c81083 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3024,6 +3024,7 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, int alloc_flags,
 		apply_fair = false;
 		fair_skipped = false;
 		reset_alloc_batches(ac->preferred_zoneref->zone);
+		z = ac->preferred_zoneref;
 		goto zonelist_scan;
 	}
 

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs