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Commit 14af4a5e authored by Hugh Dickins's avatar Hugh Dickins Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm, cma: prevent nr_isolated_* counters from going negative



/proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh warns nr_isolated_anon and nr_isolated_file go
increasingly negative under compaction: which would add delay when
should be none, or no delay when should delay.  The bug in compaction
was due to a recent mmotm patch, but much older instance of the bug was
also noticed in isolate_migratepages_range() which is used for CMA and
gigantic hugepage allocations.

The bug is caused by putback_movable_pages() in an error path
decrementing the isolated counters without them being previously
incremented by acct_isolated().  Fix isolate_migratepages_range() by
removing the error-path putback, thus reaching acct_isolated() with
migratepages still isolated, and leaving putback to caller like most
other places do.

Fixes: edc2ca61 ("mm, compaction: move pageblock checks up from isolate_migratepages_range()")
[vbabka@suse.cz: expanded the changelog]
Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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