[PATCH] Properly account for freed pages in free_pages_bulk() and when allocating high-order pages in buffered_rmqueue()

Mel Gorman
2009-04-28T10:32:18Z

This patch fixes two problems with one patch in the page allocator
optimisation patchset.

free_pages_bulk() updates the number of free pages in the zone but it is
assuming that the pages being freed are order-0. While this is currently
always true, it's wrong to assume the order is 0. This patch fixes the
problem.

buffered_rmqueue() is not updating NR_FREE_PAGES when allocating pages with
__rmqueue(). As a result, a high-order allocation will leave an elevated
free page count value leading to the situation where the free page count
exceeds available RAM. This patch accounts for those allocated pages properly.

This is a fix for page-allocator-update-nr_free_pages-only-as-necessary.patch.

Reported-by: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 5dd2d59..59eb2e1 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ static void free_pages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count,
zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_ALL_UNRECLAIMABLE);
zone->pages_scanned = 0;

- __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES, count);
+ __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES, count << order);
while (count--) {
struct page *page;

@@ -1151,6 +1151,7 @@ again:
} else {
spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
page = __rmqueue(zone, order, migratetype);
+ __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES, -(1UL << order));
spin_unlock(&zone->lock);
if (!page)
goto failed;