Re: [PATCH] mm: compaction: Correct the nr_strict_isolated check for CMA

2012-10-16 Thread Minchan Kim
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 09:39:27AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Thierry reported that the "iron out" patch for isolate_freepages_block()
> had problems due to the strict check being too strict with "mm: compaction:
> Iron out isolate_freepages_block() and isolate_freepages_range() -fix1".
> It's possible that more pages than necessary are isolated but the check
> still fails and I missed that this fix was not picked up before RC1. This
> same problem has been identified in 3.7-RC1 by Tony Prisk and should be
> addressed by the following patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
> Tested-by: Tony Prisk 
Acked-by: Minchan Kim 

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Re: [PATCH] mm: compaction: Correct the nr_strict_isolated check for CMA

2012-10-16 Thread Rik van Riel

On 10/16/2012 04:39 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:

Thierry reported that the "iron out" patch for isolate_freepages_block()
had problems due to the strict check being too strict with "mm: compaction:
Iron out isolate_freepages_block() and isolate_freepages_range() -fix1".
It's possible that more pages than necessary are isolated but the check
still fails and I missed that this fix was not picked up before RC1. This
same problem has been identified in 3.7-RC1 by Tony Prisk and should be
addressed by the following patch.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Tested-by: Tony Prisk 


Acked-by: Rik van Riel 

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[PATCH] mm: compaction: Correct the nr_strict_isolated check for CMA

2012-10-16 Thread Mel Gorman
Thierry reported that the "iron out" patch for isolate_freepages_block()
had problems due to the strict check being too strict with "mm: compaction:
Iron out isolate_freepages_block() and isolate_freepages_range() -fix1".
It's possible that more pages than necessary are isolated but the check
still fails and I missed that this fix was not picked up before RC1. This
same problem has been identified in 3.7-RC1 by Tony Prisk and should be
addressed by the following patch.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Tested-by: Tony Prisk 
---
 mm/compaction.c |2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 2c4ce17..9eef558 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ static unsigned long isolate_freepages_block(struct 
compact_control *cc,
 * pages requested were isolated. If there were any failures, 0 is
 * returned and CMA will fail.
 */
-   if (strict && nr_strict_required != total_isolated)
+   if (strict && nr_strict_required > total_isolated)
total_isolated = 0;
 
if (locked)
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