mm/page_alloc.c: broken deferred calculation
authorPavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Thu, 16 Nov 2017 01:38:41 +0000 (17:38 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 07:32:25 +0000 (08:32 +0100)
commitc1b3703b643f0abce65f10cc7716c9ddc9c0decb
tree72d71e7e3d920ac982e0f819dd1c18666bd51800
parent4ecf752738acf14848546b0c7d2e7f3753f1ed3f
mm/page_alloc.c: broken deferred calculation

commit d135e5750205a21a212a19dbb05aeb339e2cbea7 upstream.

In reset_deferred_meminit() we determine number of pages that must not
be deferred.  We initialize pages for at least 2G of memory, but also
pages for reserved memory in this node.

The reserved memory is determined in this function:
memblock_reserved_memory_within(), which operates over physical
addresses, and returns size in bytes.  However, reset_deferred_meminit()
assumes that that this function operates with pfns, and returns page
count.

The result is that in the best case machine boots slower than expected
due to initializing more pages than needed in single thread, and in the
worst case panics because fewer than needed pages are initialized early.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171021011707.15191-1-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
Fixes: 864b9a393dcb ("mm: consider memblock reservations for deferred memory initialization sizing")
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/linux/mmzone.h
mm/page_alloc.c