From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Laura Abbott , Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: [ 017/221] mm: use aligned zone start for pfn_to_bitidx calculation Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:49:04 -0800 Message-Id: <20130115184959.300428037@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20130115184958.025580322@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130115184958.025580322@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.7-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Laura Abbott commit c060f943d0929f3e429c5d9522290584f6281d6e upstream. The current calculation in pfn_to_bitidx assumes that (pfn - zone->zone_start_pfn) >> pageblock_order will return the same bit for all pfn in a pageblock. If zone_start_pfn is not aligned to pageblock_nr_pages, this may not always be correct. Consider the following with pageblock order = 10, zone start 2MB: pfn | pfn - zone start | (pfn - zone start) >> page block order ---------------------------------------------------------------- 0x26000 | 0x25e00 | 0x97 0x26100 | 0x25f00 | 0x97 0x26200 | 0x26000 | 0x98 0x26300 | 0x26100 | 0x98 This means that calling {get,set}_pageblock_migratetype on a single page will not set the migratetype for the full block. Fix this by rounding down zone_start_pfn when doing the bitidx calculation. For our use case, the effects of this bug were mostly tied to the fact that CMA allocations would either take a long time or fail to happen. Depending on the driver using CMA, this could result in anything from visual glitches to application failures. Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott Acked-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -5506,7 +5506,7 @@ static inline int pfn_to_bitidx(struct z pfn &= (PAGES_PER_SECTION-1); return (pfn >> pageblock_order) * NR_PAGEBLOCK_BITS; #else - pfn = pfn - zone->zone_start_pfn; + pfn = pfn - round_down(zone->zone_start_pfn, pageblock_nr_pages); return (pfn >> pageblock_order) * NR_PAGEBLOCK_BITS; #endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM */ }