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Commit 88ee1343 authored by Zi Yan's avatar Zi Yan Committed by akpm
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mm: fix a potential infinite loop in start_isolate_page_range()

In isolate_single_pageblock() called by start_isolate_page_range(), there
are some pageblock isolation issues causing a potential infinite loop when
isolating a page range.  This is reported by Qian Cai.

1. the pageblock was isolated by just changing pageblock migratetype
   without checking unmovable pages. Calling set_migratetype_isolate() to
   isolate pageblock properly.
2. an off-by-one error caused migrating pages unnecessarily, since the page
   is not crossing pageblock boundary.
3. migrating a compound page across pageblock boundary then splitting the
   free page later has a small race window that the free page might be
   allocated again, so that the code will try again, causing an potential
   infinite loop. Temporarily set the to-be-migrated page's pageblock to
   MIGRATE_ISOLATE to prevent that and bail out early if no free page is
   found after page migration.

An additional fix to split_free_page() aims to avoid crashing in
__free_one_page().  When the free page is split at the specified
split_pfn_offset, free_page_order should check both the first bit of
free_page_pfn and the last bit of split_pfn_offset and use the smaller
one.  For example, if free_page_pfn=0x10000, split_pfn_offset=0xc000,
free_page_order should first be 0x8000 then 0x4000, instead of 0x4000 then
0x8000, which the original algorithm did.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: suppress min() warning]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220524194756.1698351-1-zi.yan@sent.com


Fixes: b2c9e2fb ("mm: make alloc_contig_range work at pageblock granularity")
Signed-off-by: default avatarZi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reported-by: default avatarQian Cai <quic_qiancai@quicinc.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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