From: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 06:51:43 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: mm/compaction: stop isolation if too many pages are isolated and we have pages to... 
X-Git-Tag: v5.15~2419^2~12
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d20bdd571ee5c9966191568527ecdb1bd4b52368;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-starfive.git

mm/compaction: stop isolation if too many pages are isolated and we have pages to migrate

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>
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diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index d549a45..13cb7a9 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -817,6 +817,10 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
 	 * 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;