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mm: fix free page check in zone_watermark_ok()
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__zone_watermark_ok currently compares free_pages which is a signed type
with z->lowmem_reserve[classzone_idx] which is unsigned which might lead
to sign overflow if free_pages doesn't satisfy the given order (or it came
as negative already) and then we rely on the following order loop to fix
it (which doesn't work for order-0).  Let's fix the type conversion and do
not rely on the given value of free_pages or follow up fixups.

This patch fixes it because "memory-hotplug: fix kswapd looping forever
problem" depends on this.

As benefit of this patch, it doesn't rely on the loop to exit
__zone_watermark_ok in case of high order check and make the first test
effective.(ie, if (free_pages <= min + lowmem_reserve))

Aaditya reported this problem when he test my hotplug patch.

Reported-off-by: Aaditya Kumar <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Aaditya Kumar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Aaditya Kumar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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minchank authored and torvalds committed Aug 1, 2012
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion mm/page_alloc.c
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Expand Up @@ -1595,6 +1595,7 @@ static bool __zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, int order, unsigned long mark,
{
/* free_pages my go negative - that's OK */
long min = mark;
long lowmem_reserve = z->lowmem_reserve[classzone_idx];
int o;

free_pages -= (1 << order) - 1;
Expand All @@ -1603,7 +1604,7 @@ static bool __zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, int order, unsigned long mark,
if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_HARDER)
min -= min / 4;

if (free_pages <= min + z->lowmem_reserve[classzone_idx])
if (free_pages <= min + lowmem_reserve)
return false;
for (o = 0; o < order; o++) {
/* At the next order, this order's pages become unavailable */
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