linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/8] mm/compaction: avoid missing last page block in section after skip offline sections

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Message-Id: <20230728171037.2219226-2-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Date:   Sat, 29 Jul 2023 01:10:30 +0800
From:   Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@...weicloud.com>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com,
        mgorman@...hsingularity.net, willy@...radead.org, david@...hat.com
Cc:     shikemeng@...weicloud.com
Subject: [PATCH 1/8] mm/compaction: avoid missing last page block in section after skip offline sections

skip_offline_sections_reverse will return the last pfn in found online
section. Then we set block_start_pfn to start of page block which
contains the last pfn in section. Then we continue, move one page
block forward and ignore the last page block in the online section.
Make block_start_pfn point to first page block after online section to fix
this:
1. make skip_offline_sections_reverse return end pfn of online section,
i.e. pfn of page block after online section.
2. assign block_start_pfn with next_pfn.

Fixes: f63224525309 ("mm: compaction: skip the memory hole rapidly when isolating free pages")
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@...weicloud.com>
---
 mm/compaction.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 9b7a0a69e19f..ce7841363b12 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ static unsigned long skip_offline_sections_reverse(unsigned long start_pfn)
 
 	while (start_nr-- > 0) {
 		if (online_section_nr(start_nr))
-			return section_nr_to_pfn(start_nr) + PAGES_PER_SECTION - 1;
+			return section_nr_to_pfn(start_nr + 1);
 	}
 
 	return 0;
@@ -1670,8 +1670,7 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct compact_control *cc)
 
 			next_pfn = skip_offline_sections_reverse(block_start_pfn);
 			if (next_pfn)
-				block_start_pfn = max(pageblock_start_pfn(next_pfn),
-						      low_pfn);
+				block_start_pfn = max(next_pfn, low_pfn);
 
 			continue;
 		}
-- 
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