linux/mm
Johannes Weiner 27329369c9 mm: page_alloc: exempt GFP_THISNODE allocations from zone fairness
Jan Stancek reports manual page migration encountering allocation
failures after some pages when there is still plenty of memory free, and
bisected the problem down to commit 81c0a2bb51 ("mm: page_alloc: fair
zone allocator policy").

The problem is that GFP_THISNODE obeys the zone fairness allocation
batches on one hand, but doesn't reset them and wake kswapd on the other
hand.  After a few of those allocations, the batches are exhausted and
the allocations fail.

Fixing this means either having GFP_THISNODE wake up kswapd, or
GFP_THISNODE not participating in zone fairness at all.  The latter
seems safer as an acute bugfix, we can clean up later.

Reported-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[3.12+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-03-04 07:55:50 -08:00
..
backing-dev.c mm/backing-dev.c: check user buffer length before copying data to the related user buffer 2013-09-11 15:58:03 -07:00
balloon_compaction.c mm: print more details for bad_page() 2014-01-23 16:36:50 -08:00
bootmem.c mm/bootmem.c: remove unused local `map' 2013-11-13 12:09:09 +09:00
bounce.c block: Convert bio_for_each_segment() to bvec_iter 2013-11-23 22:33:49 -08:00
cleancache.c mm: dump page when hitting a VM_BUG_ON using VM_BUG_ON_PAGE 2014-01-23 16:36:50 -08:00
compaction.c mm: improve documentation of page_order 2014-01-23 16:36:53 -08:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c
fadvise.c teach SYSCALL_DEFINE<n> how to deal with long long/unsigned long long 2013-03-03 22:46:22 -05:00
failslab.c
filemap_xip.c seqcount: Add lockdep functionality to seqcount/seqlock structures 2013-11-06 12:40:26 +01:00
filemap.c fix O_SYNC|O_APPEND syncing the wrong range on write() 2014-02-09 15:18:09 -05:00
fremap.c mm: fix use-after-free in sys_remap_file_pages 2014-01-02 14:40:30 -08:00
frontswap.c frontswap: fix incorrect zeroing and allocation size for frontswap_map 2013-06-12 16:29:46 -07:00
highmem.c Some nice cleanups, and even a patch my wife did as a "live" demo for 2012-12-20 08:37:05 -08:00
huge_memory.c mm: include VM_MIXEDMAP flag in the VM_SPECIAL list to avoid m(un)locking 2014-03-04 07:55:48 -08:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c mm: dump page when hitting a VM_BUG_ON using VM_BUG_ON_PAGE 2014-01-23 16:36:50 -08:00
hugetlb.c mm: dump page when hitting a VM_BUG_ON using VM_BUG_ON_PAGE 2014-01-23 16:36:50 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c mm/hwpoison: add '#' to hwpoison_inject 2014-01-21 16:19:48 -08:00
init-mm.c
internal.h mm/page-writeback.c: do not count anon pages as dirtyable memory 2014-01-29 16:22:39 -08:00
interval_tree.c
Kconfig zsmalloc: move it under mm 2014-01-30 16:56:55 -08:00
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c mm: kmemleak: avoid false negatives on vmalloc'ed objects 2013-11-13 12:09:07 +09:00
ksm.c mm: close PageTail race 2014-03-04 07:55:47 -08:00
list_lru.c mm: list_lru: fix almost infinite loop causing effective livelock 2013-10-30 12:57:46 -07:00
maccess.c
madvise.c mm/hwpoison: fix traversal of hugetlbfs pages to avoid printk flood 2013-09-30 14:31:02 -07:00
Makefile zsmalloc: move it under mm 2014-01-30 16:56:55 -08:00
memblock.c memblock: add limit checking to memblock_virt_alloc 2014-01-29 16:22:40 -08:00
memcontrol.c memcg: reparent charges of children before processing parent 2014-03-04 07:55:48 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm/memory_hotplug.c: move register_memory_resource out of the lock_memory_hotplug 2014-01-23 16:36:52 -08:00
memory-failure.c mm: close PageTail race 2014-03-04 07:55:47 -08:00
memory.c mm, thp: fix infinite loop on memcg OOM 2014-02-25 15:25:44 -08:00
mempolicy.c mm/mempolicy.c: fix mempolicy printing in numa_maps 2014-01-30 16:56:56 -08:00
mempool.c mm/mempool.c: convert kmalloc_node(...GFP_ZERO...) to kzalloc_node(...) 2013-09-11 15:58:14 -07:00
migrate.c mm/migrate.c: fix setting of cpupid on page migration twice against normal page 2014-01-27 21:02:40 -08:00
mincore.c mm: do_mincore() cleanup 2014-01-23 16:36:52 -08:00
mlock.c mm: dump page when hitting a VM_BUG_ON using VM_BUG_ON_PAGE 2014-01-23 16:36:50 -08:00
mm_init.c mm: bring back /sys/kernel/mm 2014-01-27 21:02:39 -08:00
mmap.c mm: ignore VM_SOFTDIRTY on VMA merging 2014-01-23 16:36:53 -08:00
mmu_context.c mm: remove old aio use_mm() comment 2013-05-07 18:38:27 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c mm: audit/fix non-modular users of module_init in core code 2014-01-23 16:36:52 -08:00
mmzone.c mm: numa: Change page last {nid,pid} into {cpu,pid} 2013-10-09 14:47:45 +02:00
mprotect.c mm: Use ptep/pmdp_set_numa() for updating _PAGE_NUMA bit 2014-02-17 11:19:36 +11:00
mremap.c mm: revert mremap pud_free anti-fix 2013-10-16 21:35:53 -07:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c mm/nobootmem: free_all_bootmem again 2014-01-23 16:36:52 -08:00
nommu.c mm: add overcommit_kbytes sysctl variable 2014-01-21 16:19:44 -08:00
oom_kill.c mm, oom: base root bonus on current usage 2014-01-30 16:56:56 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm: page_alloc: exempt GFP_THISNODE allocations from zone fairness 2014-03-04 07:55:50 -08:00
page_cgroup.c Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew) 2014-01-21 19:05:45 -08:00
page_io.c Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-01-30 11:19:05 -08:00
page_isolation.c mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage 2013-09-11 15:57:48 -07:00
page-writeback.c mm: __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() uses spin_lock_irqsave() instead of spin_lock_irq() 2014-02-06 13:48:51 -08:00
pagewalk.c mm/pagewalk.c: fix walk_page_range() access of wrong PTEs 2013-10-30 14:27:03 -07:00
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew) 2014-01-21 19:05:45 -08:00
pgtable-generic.c mm: fix TLB flush race between migration, and change_protection_range 2013-12-18 19:04:51 -08:00
process_vm_access.c Fix: compat_rw_copy_check_uvector() misuse in aio, readv, writev, and security keys 2013-03-12 11:05:45 -07:00
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm/readahead.c: fix do_readahead() for no readpage(s) 2014-01-29 16:22:40 -08:00
rmap.c mm/rmap: fix coccinelle warnings 2014-01-23 16:36:53 -08:00
shmem.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-01-28 08:38:04 -08:00
slab_common.c slab: fix wrong retval on kmem_cache_create_memcg error path 2014-01-29 16:22:40 -08:00
slab.c mm: Fix warning on make htmldocs caused by slab.c 2014-01-31 13:52:25 +02:00
slab.h memcg, slab: RCU protect memcg_params for root caches 2014-01-23 16:36:51 -08:00
slob.c mm/sl[aou]b: Move kmallocXXX functions to common code 2013-09-04 20:51:33 +03:00
slub.c slub: do not assert not having lock in removing freed partial 2014-02-10 16:01:42 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm/sparse: use memblock apis for early memory allocations 2014-01-21 16:19:47 -08:00
sparse.c mm/sparse: use memblock apis for early memory allocations 2014-01-21 16:19:47 -08:00
swap_state.c swap: add a simple detector for inappropriate swapin readahead 2014-02-06 13:48:51 -08:00
swap.c mm: close PageTail race 2014-03-04 07:55:47 -08:00
swapfile.c mm/swap: fix race on swap_info reuse between swapoff and swapon 2014-02-06 13:48:51 -08:00
truncate.c truncate: drop 'oldsize' truncate_pagecache() parameter 2013-09-12 15:38:02 -07:00
util.c mm: add overcommit_kbytes sysctl variable 2014-01-21 16:19:44 -08:00
vmalloc.c Revert "mm/vmalloc: interchage the implementation of vmalloc_to_{pfn,page}" 2014-01-27 21:02:39 -08:00
vmpressure.c arm, pm, vmpressure: add missing slab.h includes 2014-02-03 13:24:01 -05:00
vmscan.c mm/page-writeback.c: do not count anon pages as dirtyable memory 2014-01-29 16:22:39 -08:00
vmstat.c mm, x86: Account for TLB flushes only when debugging 2014-01-25 09:10:41 +01:00
zbud.c mm/zbud: fix some trivial typos in comments 2013-09-11 15:57:35 -07:00
zsmalloc.c zsmalloc: add copyright 2014-01-30 16:56:55 -08:00
zswap.c mm/zswap.c: change params from hidden to ro 2014-01-23 16:36:50 -08:00