Patch "mm: prevent NR_ISOLATE_* stats from going negative" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    mm: prevent NR_ISOLATE_* stats from going negative

to the 4.9-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-prevent-nr_isolate_-stats-from-going-negative.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 fc280fe871449ead4bdbd1665fa52c7c01c64765 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rabin Vincent <rabinv@axis.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 14:37:46 -0700
Subject: mm: prevent NR_ISOLATE_* stats from going negative

From: Rabin Vincent <rabinv@axis.com>

commit fc280fe871449ead4bdbd1665fa52c7c01c64765 upstream.

Commit 6afcf8ef0ca0 ("mm, compaction: fix NR_ISOLATED_* stats for pfn
based migration") moved the dec_node_page_state() call (along with the
page_is_file_cache() call) to after putback_lru_page().

But page_is_file_cache() can change after putback_lru_page() is called,
so it should be called before putback_lru_page(), as it was before that
patch, to prevent NR_ISOLATE_* stats from going negative.

Without this fix, non-CONFIG_SMP kernels end up hanging in the
while(too_many_isolated()) { congestion_wait() } loop in
shrink_active_list() due to the negative stats.

 Mem-Info:
  active_anon:32567 inactive_anon:121 isolated_anon:1
  active_file:6066 inactive_file:6639 isolated_file:4294967295
                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^
  unevictable:0 dirty:115 writeback:0 unstable:0
  slab_reclaimable:2086 slab_unreclaimable:3167
  mapped:3398 shmem:18366 pagetables:1145 bounce:0
  free:1798 free_pcp:13 free_cma:0

Fixes: 6afcf8ef0ca0 ("mm, compaction: fix NR_ISOLATED_* stats for pfn based migration")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1492683865-27549-1-git-send-email-rabin.vincent@axis.com
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabinv@axis.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Ming Ling <ming.ling@spreadtrum.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
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/migrate.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -183,9 +183,9 @@ void putback_movable_pages(struct list_h
 			unlock_page(page);
 			put_page(page);
 		} else {
-			putback_lru_page(page);
 			dec_node_page_state(page, NR_ISOLATED_ANON +
 					page_is_file_cache(page));
+			putback_lru_page(page);
 		}
 	}
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rabinv@axis.com are

queue-4.9/mm-prevent-nr_isolate_-stats-from-going-negative.patch