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authorJason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>2016-05-05 16:22:12 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-05-11 11:21:17 +0200
commit24b8a175a66946ccb4ca227df52f517e1d8f5ef6 (patch)
tree7cf578f93d24247bccdd4a51db8b298283b55544
parent898149d10b855a0d0a5a9f8f05e4359970919eb9 (diff)
mm: update min_free_kbytes from khugepaged after core initialization
commit bc22af74f271ef76b2e6f72f3941f91f0da3f5f8 upstream. Khugepaged attempts to raise min_free_kbytes if its set too low. However, on boot khugepaged sets min_free_kbytes first from subsys_initcall(), and then the mm 'core' over-rides min_free_kbytes after from init_per_zone_wmark_min(), via a module_init() call. Khugepaged used to use a late_initcall() to set min_free_kbytes (such that it occurred after the core initialization), however this was removed when the initialization of min_free_kbytes was integrated into the starting of the khugepaged thread. The fix here is simply to invoke the core initialization using a core_initcall() instead of module_init(), such that the previous initialization ordering is restored. I didn't restore the late_initcall() since start_stop_khugepaged() already sets min_free_kbytes via set_recommended_min_free_kbytes(). This was noticed when we had a number of page allocation failures when moving a workload to a kernel with this new initialization ordering. On an 8GB system this restores min_free_kbytes back to 67584 from 11365 when CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y is set and either CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS=y or CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE=y. Fixes: 79553da293d3 ("thp: cleanup khugepaged startup") Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index c69531afbd8f..6cf5cadeaef7 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -6193,7 +6193,7 @@ int __meminit init_per_zone_wmark_min(void)
setup_per_zone_inactive_ratio();
return 0;
}
-module_init(init_per_zone_wmark_min)
+core_initcall(init_per_zone_wmark_min)
/*
* min_free_kbytes_sysctl_handler - just a wrapper around proc_dointvec() so