Patch "mm/compaction: fix invalid free_pfn and compact_cached_free_pfn" 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: fix invalid free_pfn and compact_cached_free_pfn

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-fix-invalid-free_pfn-and-compact_cached_free_pfn.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 623446e4dc45b37740268165107cc63abb3022f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 14:57:45 -0700
Subject: mm/compaction: fix invalid free_pfn and compact_cached_free_pfn

From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>

commit 623446e4dc45b37740268165107cc63abb3022f0 upstream.

free_pfn and compact_cached_free_pfn are the pointer that remember
restart position of freepage scanner.  When they are reset or invalid,
we set them to zone_end_pfn because freepage scanner works in reverse
direction.  But, because zone range is defined as [zone_start_pfn,
zone_end_pfn), zone_end_pfn is invalid to access.  Therefore, we should
not store it to free_pfn and compact_cached_free_pfn.  Instead, we need
to store zone_end_pfn - 1 to them.  There is one more thing we should
consider.  Freepage scanner scan reversely by pageblock unit.  If
free_pfn and compact_cached_free_pfn are set to middle of pageblock, it
regards that sitiation as that it already scans front part of pageblock
so we lose opportunity to scan there.  To fix-up, this patch do
round_down() to guarantee that reset position will be pageblock aligned.

Note that thanks to the current pageblock_pfn_to_page() implementation,
actual access to zone_end_pfn doesn't happen until now.  But, following
patch will change pageblock_pfn_to_page() so this patch is needed from
now on.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/compaction.c |    9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -200,7 +200,8 @@ static void reset_cached_positions(struc
 {
 	zone->compact_cached_migrate_pfn[0] = zone->zone_start_pfn;
 	zone->compact_cached_migrate_pfn[1] = zone->zone_start_pfn;
-	zone->compact_cached_free_pfn = zone_end_pfn(zone);
+	zone->compact_cached_free_pfn =
+			round_down(zone_end_pfn(zone) - 1, pageblock_nr_pages);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1358,11 +1359,11 @@ static int compact_zone(struct zone *zon
 	 */
 	cc->migrate_pfn = zone->compact_cached_migrate_pfn[sync];
 	cc->free_pfn = zone->compact_cached_free_pfn;
-	if (cc->free_pfn < start_pfn || cc->free_pfn > end_pfn) {
-		cc->free_pfn = end_pfn & ~(pageblock_nr_pages-1);
+	if (cc->free_pfn < start_pfn || cc->free_pfn >= end_pfn) {
+		cc->free_pfn = round_down(end_pfn - 1, pageblock_nr_pages);
 		zone->compact_cached_free_pfn = cc->free_pfn;
 	}
-	if (cc->migrate_pfn < start_pfn || cc->migrate_pfn > end_pfn) {
+	if (cc->migrate_pfn < start_pfn || cc->migrate_pfn >= end_pfn) {
 		cc->migrate_pfn = start_pfn;
 		zone->compact_cached_migrate_pfn[0] = cc->migrate_pfn;
 		zone->compact_cached_migrate_pfn[1] = cc->migrate_pfn;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com are

queue-4.4/mm-compaction-pass-only-pageblock-aligned-range-to-pageblock_pfn_to_page.patch
queue-4.4/mm-compaction-fix-invalid-free_pfn-and-compact_cached_free_pfn.patch