forked from luck/tmp_suning_uos_patched
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mod_zone_page_state() takes a "delta" integer argument. delta contains
the number of pages that should be added or subtracted from a struct
zone's vm_stat field.
If a zone is larger than 8TB this will cause overflows. E.g. for a
zone with a size slightly larger than 8TB the line
mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ALLOC_BATCH, zone->managed_pages);
in mm/page_alloc.c:free_area_init_core() will result in a negative
result for the NR_ALLOC_BATCH entry within the zone's vm_stat, since 8TB
contain 0x8xxxxxxx pages which will be sign extended to a negative
value.
Fix this by changing the delta argument to long type.
This could fix an early boot problem seen on s390, where we have a 9TB
system with only one node. ZONE_DMA contains 2GB and ZONE_NORMAL the
rest. The system is trying to allocate a GFP_DMA page but ZONE_DMA is
completely empty, so it tries to reclaim pages in an endless loop.
This was seen on a heavily patched 3.10 kernel. One possible
explaination seem to be the overflows caused by mod_zone_page_state().
Unfortunately I did not have the chance to verify that this patch
actually fixes the problem, since I don't have access to the system
right now. However the overflow problem does exist anyway.
Given the description that a system with slightly less than 8TB does
work, this seems to be a candidate for the observed problem.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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| kasan | ||
| backing-dev.c | ||
| balloon_compaction.c | ||
| bootmem.c | ||
| cleancache.c | ||
| cma_debug.c | ||
| cma.c | ||
| cma.h | ||
| compaction.c | ||
| debug-pagealloc.c | ||
| debug.c | ||
| dmapool.c | ||
| early_ioremap.c | ||
| fadvise.c | ||
| failslab.c | ||
| filemap.c | ||
| frame_vector.c | ||
| frontswap.c | ||
| gup.c | ||
| highmem.c | ||
| huge_memory.c | ||
| hugetlb_cgroup.c | ||
| hugetlb.c | ||
| hwpoison-inject.c | ||
| init-mm.c | ||
| internal.h | ||
| interval_tree.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Kconfig.debug | ||
| kmemcheck.c | ||
| kmemleak-test.c | ||
| kmemleak.c | ||
| ksm.c | ||
| list_lru.c | ||
| maccess.c | ||
| madvise.c | ||
| Makefile | ||
| memblock.c | ||
| memcontrol.c | ||
| memory_hotplug.c | ||
| memory-failure.c | ||
| memory.c | ||
| mempolicy.c | ||
| mempool.c | ||
| memtest.c | ||
| migrate.c | ||
| mincore.c | ||
| mlock.c | ||
| mm_init.c | ||
| mmap.c | ||
| mmu_context.c | ||
| mmu_notifier.c | ||
| mmzone.c | ||
| mprotect.c | ||
| mremap.c | ||
| msync.c | ||
| nobootmem.c | ||
| nommu.c | ||
| oom_kill.c | ||
| page_alloc.c | ||
| page_counter.c | ||
| page_ext.c | ||
| page_idle.c | ||
| page_io.c | ||
| page_isolation.c | ||
| page_owner.c | ||
| page-writeback.c | ||
| pagewalk.c | ||
| percpu-km.c | ||
| percpu-vm.c | ||
| percpu.c | ||
| pgtable-generic.c | ||
| process_vm_access.c | ||
| quicklist.c | ||
| readahead.c | ||
| rmap.c | ||
| shmem.c | ||
| slab_common.c | ||
| slab.c | ||
| slab.h | ||
| slob.c | ||
| slub.c | ||
| sparse-vmemmap.c | ||
| sparse.c | ||
| swap_cgroup.c | ||
| swap_state.c | ||
| swap.c | ||
| swapfile.c | ||
| truncate.c | ||
| userfaultfd.c | ||
| util.c | ||
| vmacache.c | ||
| vmalloc.c | ||
| vmpressure.c | ||
| vmscan.c | ||
| vmstat.c | ||
| workingset.c | ||
| zbud.c | ||
| zpool.c | ||
| zsmalloc.c | ||
| zswap.c | ||