[patch v2 3/3] mm: page_alloc: fair zone allocator policy

[Stephen Warren]

On 08/16/2013 02:18 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:17:01AM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> Johannes Weiner <hannes at cmpxchg.org> writes:
>>> On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 11:37:43AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
>>> Subject: [patch] mm: page_alloc: use vmstats for fair zone allocation batching
>>>
>>> Avoid dirtying the same cache line with every single page allocation
>>> by making the fair per-zone allocation batch a vmstat item, which will
>>> turn it into batched percpu counters on SMP.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes at cmpxchg.org>
>>
>> I bisected several boot failures on various ARM platform in
>> next-20130816 down to this patch (commit 67131f9837 in linux-next.)
>>
>> Simply reverting it got things booting again on top of -next.  Example
>> boot crash below.
> 
> Thanks for the bisect and report!
> 
> I deref the percpu pointers before initializing them properly.  It
> didn't trigger on x86 because the percpu offset added to the pointer
> is big enough so that it does not fall into PFN 0, but it probably
> ended up corrupting something...
> 
> Could you try this patch on top of linux-next instead of the revert?

That patch,
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>