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Commit b2c9e2fb authored by Zi Yan's avatar Zi Yan Committed by Andrew Morton
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mm: make alloc_contig_range work at pageblock granularity

alloc_contig_range() worked at MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES granularity to avoid
merging pageblocks with different migratetypes.  It might unnecessarily
convert extra pageblocks at the beginning and at the end of the range. 
Change alloc_contig_range() to work at pageblock granularity.

Special handling is needed for free pages and in-use pages across the
boundaries of the range specified by alloc_contig_range().  Because these=

Partially isolated pages causes free page accounting issues.  The free
pages will be split and freed into separate migratetype lists; the in-use=

Pages will be migrated then the freed pages will be handled in the
aforementioned way.

[ziy@nvidia.com: fix deadlock/crash]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/23A7297E-6C84-4138-A9FE-3598234004E6@nvidia.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220425143118.2850746-4-zi.yan@sent.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarZi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reported-by: default avatarkernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Ren <renzhengeek@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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