mm, compaction: do not recheck suitable_migration_target under lock

isolate_freepages_block() rechecks if the pageblock is suitable to be a
target for migration after it has taken the zone->lock.  However, the
check has been optimized to occur only once per pageblock, and
compact_checklock_irqsave() might be dropping and reacquiring lock, which
means somebody else might have changed the pageblock's migratetype
meanwhile.

Furthermore, nothing prevents the migratetype to change right after
isolate_freepages_block() has finished isolating.  Given how imperfect
this is, it's simpler to just rely on the check done in
isolate_freepages() without lock, and not pretend that the recheck under
lock guarantees anything.  It is just a heuristic after all.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Vlastimil Babka authored and Linus Torvalds committed 2014-10-09 22:25:54 -04:00
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@@ -276,7 +276,6 @@ static unsigned long isolate_freepages_block(struct compact_control *cc,
struct page *cursor, *valid_page = NULL;
unsigned long flags;
bool locked = false;
bool checked_pageblock = false;
cursor = pfn_to_page(blockpfn);
@@ -307,18 +306,6 @@ static unsigned long isolate_freepages_block(struct compact_control *cc,
if (!locked)
break;
/* Recheck this is a suitable migration target under lock */
if (!strict && !checked_pageblock) {
/*
* We need to check suitability of pageblock only once
* and this isolate_freepages_block() is called with
* pageblock range, so just check once is sufficient.
*/
checked_pageblock = true;
if (!suitable_migration_target(page))
break;
}
/* Recheck this is a buddy page under lock */
if (!PageBuddy(page))
goto isolate_fail;