mm/compaction: stop isolation if too many pages are isolated and we have pages to...

In isolate_migratepages_block, if we have too many isolated pages and
nr_migratepages is not zero, we should try to migrate what we have
without wasting time on isolating.

In theory it's possible that multiple parallel compactions will cause
too_many_isolated() to become true even if each has isolated less than
COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX, and loop forever in the while loop.  Bailing
immediately prevents that.

[vbabka@suse.cz: changelog addition]

Fixes: 8ac0c865edca (“mm,thp,compaction,cma: allow THP migration for CMA allocations”)
Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201030183809.3616803-2-zi.yan@sent.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index d549a4521edf248bf578e40a31eb8cd349402964..13cb7a961b319b11c83fb699a1d6e8e8d4b73e45 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -817,6 +817,10 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
         * delay for some time until fewer pages are isolated
         */
        while (unlikely(too_many_isolated(pgdat))) {
+               /* stop isolation if there are still pages not migrated */
+               if (cc->nr_migratepages)
+                       return 0;
+
                /* async migration should just abort */
                if (cc->mode == MIGRATE_ASYNC)
                        return 0;