linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.9 210/255] mm/compaction: stop isolation if too many pages are isolated and we have pages to migrate

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Date:   Tue, 17 Nov 2020 14:05:50 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.9 210/255] mm/compaction: stop isolation if too many pages are isolated and we have pages to migrate

From: Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>

commit d20bdd571ee5c9966191568527ecdb1bd4b52368 upstream.

In isolate_migratepages_block, if we have too many isolated pages and
nr_migratepages is not zero, we should try to migrate what we have
without wasting time on isolating.

In theory it's possible that multiple parallel compactions will cause
too_many_isolated() to become true even if each has isolated less than
COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX, and loop forever in the while loop.  Bailing
immediately prevents that.

[vbabka@...e.cz: changelog addition]

Fixes: 1da2f328fa64 (“mm,thp,compaction,cma: allow THP migration for CMA allocations”)
Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201030183809.3616803-2-zi.yan@sent.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/compaction.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -818,6 +818,10 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compac
 	 * delay for some time until fewer pages are isolated
 	 */
 	while (unlikely(too_many_isolated(pgdat))) {
+		/* stop isolation if there are still pages not migrated */
+		if (cc->nr_migratepages)
+			return 0;
+
 		/* async migration should just abort */
 		if (cc->mode == MIGRATE_ASYNC)
 			return 0;