mm/page_alloc.c: fix regression with deferred struct page init
authorJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Thu, 4 Jul 2019 22:14:36 +0000 (15:14 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 5 Jul 2019 02:12:07 +0000 (11:12 +0900)
commitb9705d8778e7adc97de38f405f835a2426e14d84
treeb9a6b567e2d55da836ed112f5a7c134f3833d3de
parentc212ddaee2fd21e8d756dbc3c6119e3259b38fd0
mm/page_alloc.c: fix regression with deferred struct page init

Commit 0e56acae4b4d ("mm: initialize MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES at a time
instead of doing larger sections") is causing a regression on some
systems when the kernel is booted as Xen dom0.

The system will just hang in early boot.

Reason is an endless loop in get_page_from_freelist() in case the first
zone looked at has no free memory.  deferred_grow_zone() is always
returning true due to the following code snipplet:

  /* If the zone is empty somebody else may have cleared out the zone */
  if (!deferred_init_mem_pfn_range_in_zone(&i, zone, &spfn, &epfn,
                                           first_deferred_pfn)) {
          pgdat->first_deferred_pfn = ULONG_MAX;
          pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags);
          return true;
  }

This in turn results in the loop as get_page_from_freelist() is assuming
forward progress can be made by doing some more struct page
initialization.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190620160821.4210-1-jgross@suse.com
Fixes: 0e56acae4b4d ("mm: initialize MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES at a time instead of doing larger sections")
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c