Updating the zone watermarks by any means, like extra_free_kbytes, min_free_kbytes, water_mark_scale_factor e.t.c, when watermark_boost is set will result into the higher low and high watermarks than the user asks. This can be avoided by resetting the zone->watermark_boost to zero early.
Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Reddy <chara...@codeaurora.org> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 1b265b09..822e262 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -7746,9 +7746,9 @@ static void __setup_per_zone_wmarks(void) mult_frac(zone_managed_pages(zone), watermark_scale_factor, 10000)); + zone->watermark_boost = 0; zone->_watermark[WMARK_LOW] = min_wmark_pages(zone) + tmp; zone->_watermark[WMARK_HIGH] = min_wmark_pages(zone) + tmp * 2; - zone->watermark_boost = 0; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags); } -- QUALCOMM INDIA, on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation