Patch "mm, compaction: prevent VM_BUG_ON when terminating freeing scanner" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mm, compaction: prevent VM_BUG_ON when terminating freeing scanner

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     mm-compaction-prevent-vm_bug_on-when-terminating-freeing-scanner.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From a46cbf3bc53b6a93fb84a5ffb288c354fa807954 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 12:06:50 -0700
Subject: mm, compaction: prevent VM_BUG_ON when terminating freeing scanner

From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

commit a46cbf3bc53b6a93fb84a5ffb288c354fa807954 upstream.

It's possible to isolate some freepages in a pageblock and then fail
split_free_page() due to the low watermark check.  In this case, we hit
VM_BUG_ON() because the freeing scanner terminated early without a
contended lock or enough freepages.

This should never have been a VM_BUG_ON() since it's not a fatal
condition.  It should have been a VM_WARN_ON() at best, or even handled
gracefully.

Regardless, we need to terminate anytime the full pageblock scan was not
done.  The logic belongs in isolate_freepages_block(), so handle its
state gracefully by terminating the pageblock loop and making a note to
restart at the same pageblock next time since it was not possible to
complete the scan this time.

[rientjes@google.com: don't rescan pages in a pageblock]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1607111244150.83138@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1606291436300.145590@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/compaction.c |   36 ++++++++++++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -964,8 +964,6 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct com
 				block_end_pfn = block_start_pfn,
 				block_start_pfn -= pageblock_nr_pages,
 				isolate_start_pfn = block_start_pfn) {
-		unsigned long isolated;
-
 		/*
 		 * This can iterate a massively long zone without finding any
 		 * suitable migration targets, so periodically check if we need
@@ -989,36 +987,30 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct com
 			continue;
 
 		/* Found a block suitable for isolating free pages from. */
-		isolated = isolate_freepages_block(cc, &isolate_start_pfn,
-						block_end_pfn, freelist, false);
-		/* If isolation failed early, do not continue needlessly */
-		if (!isolated && isolate_start_pfn < block_end_pfn &&
-		    cc->nr_migratepages > cc->nr_freepages)
-			break;
+		isolate_freepages_block(cc, &isolate_start_pfn, block_end_pfn,
+					freelist, false);
 
 		/*
-		 * If we isolated enough freepages, or aborted due to async
-		 * compaction being contended, terminate the loop.
-		 * Remember where the free scanner should restart next time,
-		 * which is where isolate_freepages_block() left off.
-		 * But if it scanned the whole pageblock, isolate_start_pfn
-		 * now points at block_end_pfn, which is the start of the next
-		 * pageblock.
-		 * In that case we will however want to restart at the start
-		 * of the previous pageblock.
+		 * If we isolated enough freepages, or aborted due to lock
+		 * contention, terminate.
 		 */
 		if ((cc->nr_freepages >= cc->nr_migratepages)
 							|| cc->contended) {
-			if (isolate_start_pfn >= block_end_pfn)
+			if (isolate_start_pfn >= block_end_pfn) {
+				/*
+				 * Restart at previous pageblock if more
+				 * freepages can be isolated next time.
+				 */
 				isolate_start_pfn =
 					block_start_pfn - pageblock_nr_pages;
+			}
 			break;
-		} else {
+		} else if (isolate_start_pfn < block_end_pfn) {
 			/*
-			 * isolate_freepages_block() should not terminate
-			 * prematurely unless contended, or isolated enough
+			 * If isolation failed early, do not continue
+			 * needlessly.
 			 */
-			VM_BUG_ON(isolate_start_pfn < block_end_pfn);
+			break;
 		}
 	}
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rientjes@google.com are

queue-4.4/mm-compaction-abort-free-scanner-if-split-fails.patch
queue-4.4/mm-compaction-prevent-vm_bug_on-when-terminating-freeing-scanner.patch
queue-4.4/mm-meminit-always-return-a-valid-node-from-early_pfn_to_nid.patch
queue-4.4/mm-meminit-ensure-node-is-online-before-checking-whether-pages-are-uninitialised.patch