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| author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> | 2019-02-20 22:19:49 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-02-21 09:01:00 -0800 |
| commit | 94b3334cbebea34d56a7e6321c6fe9d89b309a49 (patch) | |
| tree | 594051108f28d96925d28f169933ade8b23cad9d /mm/page_alloc.c | |
| parent | 311ade0eab192f0abee2f70bce761bf0d66990c4 (diff) | |
| download | linux-94b3334cbebea34d56a7e6321c6fe9d89b309a49.tar.gz | |
mm, page_alloc: fix a division by zero error when boosting watermarks v2
Yury Norov reported that an arm64 KVM instance could not boot since
after v5.0-rc1 and could addressed by reverting the patches
1c30844d2dfe272d58c ("mm: reclaim small amounts of memory when an external
73444bc4d8f92e46a20 ("mm, page_alloc: do not wake kswapd with zone lock held")
The problem is that a division by zero error is possible if boosting
occurs very early in boot if the system has very little memory. This
patch avoids the division by zero error.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190213143012.GT9565@techsingularity.net
Fixes: 1c30844d2dfe ("mm: reclaim small amounts of memory when an external fragmentation event occurs")
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reported-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 7f79b78bc829..0b9f577b1a2a 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2170,6 +2170,18 @@ static inline void boost_watermark(struct zone *zone) max_boost = mult_frac(zone->_watermark[WMARK_HIGH], watermark_boost_factor, 10000); + + /* + * high watermark may be uninitialised if fragmentation occurs + * very early in boot so do not boost. We do not fall + * through and boost by pageblock_nr_pages as failing + * allocations that early means that reclaim is not going + * to help and it may even be impossible to reclaim the + * boosted watermark resulting in a hang. + */ + if (!max_boost) + return; + max_boost = max(pageblock_nr_pages, max_boost); zone->watermark_boost = min(zone->watermark_boost + pageblock_nr_pages, |