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Johannes Weiner c0cd6f557b mm: page_alloc: fix freelist movement during block conversion
Currently, page block type conversion during fallbacks, atomic
reservations and isolation can strand various amounts of free pages on
incorrect freelists.

For example, fallback stealing moves free pages in the block to the new
type's freelists, but then may not actually claim the block for that type
if there aren't enough compatible pages already allocated.

In all cases, free page moving might fail if the block straddles more than
one zone, in which case no free pages are moved at all, but the block type
is changed anyway.

This is detrimental to type hygiene on the freelists.  It encourages
incompatible page mixing down the line (ask for one type, get another) and
thus contributes to long-term fragmentation.

Split the process into a proper transaction: check first if conversion
will happen, then try to move the free pages, and only if that was
successful convert the block to the new type.

[baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com: fix allocation failures with CONFIG_CMA]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a97697e0-45b0-4f71-b087-fdc7a1d43c0e@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240320180429.678181-7-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-04-25 20:56:03 -07:00
arch mm: vmalloc: enable memory allocation profiling 2024-04-25 20:55:57 -07:00
block block-6.9-20240412 2024-04-12 10:22:33 -07:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto This push fixes a regression that broke iwd as well as a divide by 2024-03-25 10:48:23 -07:00
Documentation memprofiling: documentation 2024-04-25 20:55:58 -07:00
drivers mm: change inlined allocation helpers to account at the call site 2024-04-25 20:55:59 -07:00
fs mm: change inlined allocation helpers to account at the call site 2024-04-25 20:55:59 -07:00
include mm: page_alloc: fix freelist movement during block conversion 2024-04-25 20:56:03 -07:00
init mm: introduce slabobj_ext to support slab object extensions 2024-04-25 20:55:51 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/net: restore msg_control on sendzc retry 2024-04-08 21:48:41 -06:00
ipc sysctl changes for v6.9-rc1 2024-03-18 14:59:13 -07:00
kernel mm: free up PG_slab 2024-04-25 20:56:00 -07:00
lib alloc_tag: Tighten file permissions on /proc/allocinfo 2024-04-25 20:55:59 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm mm: page_alloc: fix freelist movement during block conversion 2024-04-25 20:56:03 -07:00
net mm: change inlined allocation helpers to account at the call site 2024-04-25 20:55:59 -07:00
rust rust: add a rust helper for krealloc() 2024-04-25 20:55:55 -07:00
samples Tracing updates for 6.9: 2024-03-18 15:11:44 -07:00
scripts lib: add allocation tagging support for memory allocation profiling 2024-04-25 20:55:52 -07:00
security security: Place security_path_post_mknod() where the original IMA call was 2024-04-03 10:21:32 -07:00
sound fix missing vmalloc.h includes 2024-04-25 20:55:49 -07:00
tools selftests/mm: run_vmtests.sh: fix hugetlb mem size calculation 2024-04-25 20:56:02 -07:00
usr Kbuild updates for v6.8 2024-01-18 17:57:07 -08:00
virt KVM Xen and pfncache changes for 6.9: 2024-03-11 10:42:55 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.7-rc4's for_each macro list 2023-12-08 23:54:38 +01:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig file for basic formatting 2023-12-28 16:22:47 +09:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: create a list of all built DTB files 2024-02-19 18:20:39 +09:00
.mailmap MAINTAINERS: update Naoya Horiguchi's email address 2024-04-16 15:39:51 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add entries for code tagging and memory allocation profiling 2024-04-25 20:55:58 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.9-rc4 2024-04-14 13:38:39 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.