From: Jann Horn <[email protected]> commit 8ff60eb052eeba95cfb3efe16b08c9199f8121cf upstream.
acquire_slab() fails if there is contention on the freelist of the page (probably because some other CPU is concurrently freeing an object from the page). In that case, it might make sense to look for a different page (since there might be more remote frees to the page from other CPUs, and we don't want contention on struct page). However, the current code accidentally stops looking at the partial list completely in that case. Especially on kernels without CONFIG_NUMA set, this means that get_partial() fails and new_slab_objects() falls back to new_slab(), allocating new pages. This could lead to an unnecessary increase in memory fragmentation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Fixes: 7ced37197196 ("slub: Acquire_slab() avoid loop") Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <[email protected]> Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- mm/slub.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -1830,7 +1830,7 @@ static void *get_partial_node(struct kme t = acquire_slab(s, n, page, object == NULL, &objects); if (!t) - break; + continue; /* cmpxchg raced */ available += objects; if (!object) {
