Commit f0dfcde099453aa4c0dc42473828d15a6d492936

Authored by Alex,Shi
Committed by Linus Torvalds
1 parent d1f0ece6cd

kswapd: assign new_order and new_classzone_idx after wakeup in sleeping

There 2 places to read pgdat in kswapd.  One is return from a successful
balance, another is waked up from kswapd sleeping.  The new_order and
new_classzone_idx represent the balance input order and classzone_idx.

But current new_order and new_classzone_idx are not assigned after
kswapd_try_to_sleep(), that will cause a bug in the following scenario.

1: after a successful balance, kswapd goes to sleep, and new_order = 0;
   new_classzone_idx = __MAX_NR_ZONES - 1;

2: kswapd waked up with order = 3 and classzone_idx = ZONE_NORMAL

3: in the balance_pgdat() running, a new balance wakeup happened with
   order = 5, and classzone_idx = ZONE_NORMAL

4: the first wakeup(order = 3) finished successufly, return order = 3
   but, the new_order is still 0, so, this balancing will be treated as a
   failed balance.  And then the second tighter balancing will be missed.

So, to avoid the above problem, the new_order and new_classzone_idx need
to be assigned for later successful comparison.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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2887 2887 balanced_classzone_idx);
2888 2888 order = pgdat->kswapd_max_order;
2889 2889 classzone_idx = pgdat->classzone_idx;
  2890 + new_order = order;
  2891 + new_classzone_idx = classzone_idx;
2890 2892 pgdat->kswapd_max_order = 0;
2891 2893 pgdat->classzone_idx = pgdat->nr_zones - 1;
2892 2894 }