On 05/18/2016 09:51 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> ----8<----
>  From f52f5e2a7dd65f2814183d8fd254ace43120b828 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz>
> Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 09:41:01 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] mm, page_alloc: prevent infinite loop in buffered_rmqueue()
> 
> In DEBUG_VM kernel, we can hit infinite loop for order == 0 in
> buffered_rmqueue() when check_new_pcp() returns 1, because the bad page is
> never removed from the pcp list. Fix this by removing the page before 
> retrying.
> Also we don't need to check if page is non-NULL, because we simply grab it 
> from
> the list which was just tested for being non-empty.
> 
> Fixes: 
> http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-page_alloc-defer-debugging-checks-of-freed-pages-until-a-pcp-drain.patch

Wrong.
Fixes: 
http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-page_alloc-defer-debugging-checks-of-pages-allocated-from-the-pcp.patch

> Reported-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horigu...@ah.jp.nec.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz>
> ---
>   mm/page_alloc.c | 9 +++++----
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 8c81e2e7b172..d5b93e5dd697 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -2641,11 +2641,12 @@ struct page *buffered_rmqueue(struct zone 
> *preferred_zone,
>                               page = list_last_entry(list, struct page, lru);
>                       else
>                               page = list_first_entry(list, struct page, lru);
> -             } while (page && check_new_pcp(page));
>   
> -             __dec_zone_state(zone, NR_ALLOC_BATCH);
> -             list_del(&page->lru);
> -             pcp->count--;
> +                     __dec_zone_state(zone, NR_ALLOC_BATCH);
> +                     list_del(&page->lru);
> +                     pcp->count--;
> +
> +             } while (check_new_pcp(page));
>       } else {
>               /*
>                * We most definitely don't want callers attempting to
> 

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