This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm/hotplug: correctly add new zone to all other nodes' zone lists
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-hotplug-correctly-add-new-zone-to-all-other-nodes-zone-lists.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From [email protected] Mon Apr 1 16:37:48 2013
From: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:36:58 +0100
Subject: mm/hotplug: correctly add new zone to all other nodes' zone lists
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], Jiang Liu
<[email protected]>, Jianguo Wu <[email protected]>, Jiang Liu
<[email protected]>, Mel Gorman <[email protected]>, Michal Hocko
<[email protected]>, Minchan Kim <[email protected]>, Rusty Russell
<[email protected]>, Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>, Tony Luck
<[email protected]>, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>, David Rientjes
<[email protected]>, Keping Chen <[email protected]>, Andrew Morton
<[email protected]>, Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>,
Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
From: Jiang Liu <[email protected]>
commit 08dff7b7d629807dbb1f398c68dd9cd58dd657a1 upstream.
When online_pages() is called to add new memory to an empty zone, it
rebuilds all zone lists by calling build_all_zonelists(). But there's a
bug which prevents the new zone to be added to other nodes' zone lists.
online_pages() {
build_all_zonelists()
.....
node_set_state(zone_to_nid(zone), N_HIGH_MEMORY)
}
Here the node of the zone is put into N_HIGH_MEMORY state after calling
build_all_zonelists(), but build_all_zonelists() only adds zones from
nodes in N_HIGH_MEMORY state to the fallback zone lists.
build_all_zonelists()
->__build_all_zonelists()
->build_zonelists()
->find_next_best_node()
->for_each_node_state(n, N_HIGH_MEMORY)
So memory in the new zone will never be used by other nodes, and it may
cause strange behavor when system is under memory pressure. So put node
into N_HIGH_MEMORY state before calling build_all_zonelists().
Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Keping Chen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -453,19 +453,20 @@ int __ref online_pages(unsigned long pfn
zone->present_pages += onlined_pages;
zone->zone_pgdat->node_present_pages += onlined_pages;
- if (need_zonelists_rebuild)
- build_all_zonelists(zone);
- else
- zone_pcp_update(zone);
+ if (onlined_pages) {
+ node_set_state(zone_to_nid(zone), N_HIGH_MEMORY);
+ if (need_zonelists_rebuild)
+ build_all_zonelists(zone);
+ else
+ zone_pcp_update(zone);
+ }
mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex);
init_per_zone_wmark_min();
- if (onlined_pages) {
+ if (onlined_pages)
kswapd_run(zone_to_nid(zone));
- node_set_state(zone_to_nid(zone), N_HIGH_MEMORY);
- }
vm_total_pages = nr_free_pagecache_pages();
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.0/kvm-x86-prevent-starting-pit-timers-in-the-absence-of-irqchip-support.patch
queue-3.0/kvm-x86-invalid-opcode-oops-on-set_sregs-with-osxsave-bit-set-cve-2012-4461.patch
queue-3.0/mm-hotplug-correctly-add-new-zone-to-all-other-nodes-zone-lists.patch
queue-3.0/macvtap-zerocopy-validate-vectors-before-building-skb.patch
queue-3.0/x25-validate-incoming-call-user-data-lengths.patch
queue-3.0/batman-adv-bat_socket_read-missing-checks.patch
queue-3.0/kvm-fix-buffer-overflow-in-kvm_set_irq.patch
queue-3.0/x25-handle-undersized-fragmented-skbs.patch
queue-3.0/nfsv4-include-bitmap-in-nfsv4-get-acl-data.patch
queue-3.0/nfs-nfs_getaclargs.acl_len-is-a-size_t.patch
queue-3.0/nfsv4-fix-an-oops-in-the-nfsv4-getacl-code.patch
queue-3.0/kvm-clean-up-error-handling-during-vcpu-creation.patch
queue-3.0/kvm-ensure-all-vcpus-are-consistent-with-in-kernel-irqchip-settings.patch
queue-3.0/batman-adv-only-write-requested-number-of-byte-to-user-buffer.patch
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