[PATCH 5.9 210/255] mm/compaction: stop isolation if too many pages are isolated and we have pages to migrate

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-11-17T13:45:10Z

From: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>

commit d20bdd571ee5c9966191568527ecdb1bd4b52368 upstream.

In isolate_migratepages_block, if we have too many isolated pages and
nr_migratepages is not zero, we should try to migrate what we have
without wasting time on isolating.

In theory it's possible that multiple parallel compactions will cause
too_many_isolated() to become true even if each has isolated less than
COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX, and loop forever in the while loop. Bailing
immediately prevents that.

[vbabka@suse.cz: changelog addition]

Fixes: 1da2f328fa64 (“mm,thp,compaction,cma: allow THP migration for CMA allocations”)
Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201030183809.3616803-2-zi.yan@sent.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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

--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -818,6 +818,10 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compac
* delay for some time until fewer pages are isolated
*/
while (unlikely(too_many_isolated(pgdat))) {
+ /* stop isolation if there are still pages not migrated */
+ if (cc->nr_migratepages)
+ return 0;
+
/* async migration should just abort */
if (cc->mode == MIGRATE_ASYNC)
return 0;