[PATCH 2/2] mm/compaction: fix to initialize free scanner properly

Heesub Shin
2014-04-03T08:57:32Z

Free scanner does not works well on systems having zones which do not
span to pageblock-aligned boundary.

zone->compact_cached_free_pfn is reset when the migration and free
scanner across or compaction restarts. After the reset, if end_pfn of
the zone was not aligned to pageblock_nr_pages, free scanner tries to
isolate free pages from the middle of pageblock to the end, which can
be very small range.

Signed-off-by: Heesub Shin <heesub.shin@samsung.com>
Cc: Dongjun Shin <d.j.shin@samsung.com>
Cc: Sunghwan Yun <sunghwan.yun@samsung.com>
---
mm/compaction.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 1ef9144..fefe1da 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -983,7 +983,7 @@ static int compact_zone(struct zone *zone, struct compact_control *cc)
*/
cc->migrate_pfn = zone->compact_cached_migrate_pfn;
cc->free_pfn = zone->compact_cached_free_pfn;
- if (cc->free_pfn < start_pfn || cc->free_pfn > end_pfn) {
+ if (cc->free_pfn < start_pfn || cc->free_pfn >= end_pfn) {
cc->free_pfn = end_pfn & ~(pageblock_nr_pages-1);
zone->compact_cached_free_pfn = cc->free_pfn;
}
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1.8.3.2