isolate_freepages_block() rechecks if the pageblock is suitable to be a target for migration after it has taken the zone->lock. However, the check has been optimized to occur only once per pageblock, and compact_checklock_irqsave() might be dropping and reacquiring lock, which means somebody else might have changed the pageblock's migratetype meanwhile.
Furthermore, nothing prevents the migratetype to change right after isolate_freepages_block() has finished isolating. Given how imperfect this is, it's simpler to just rely on the check done in isolate_freepages() without lock, and not pretend that the recheck under lock guarantees anything. It is just a heuristic after all. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <[email protected]> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]> --- mm/compaction.c | 13 ------------- 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index f3ae2ec..0a871e5 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -276,7 +276,6 @@ static unsigned long isolate_freepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, struct page *cursor, *valid_page = NULL; unsigned long flags; bool locked = false; - bool checked_pageblock = false; cursor = pfn_to_page(blockpfn); @@ -307,18 +306,6 @@ static unsigned long isolate_freepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, if (!locked) break; - /* Recheck this is a suitable migration target under lock */ - if (!strict && !checked_pageblock) { - /* - * We need to check suitability of pageblock only once - * and this isolate_freepages_block() is called with - * pageblock range, so just check once is sufficient. - */ - checked_pageblock = true; - if (!suitable_migration_target(page)) - break; - } - /* Recheck this is a buddy page under lock */ if (!PageBuddy(page)) goto isolate_fail; -- 1.8.4.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
