mm, compaction: prevent VM_BUG_ON when terminating freeing scanner
It's possible to isolate some freepages in a pageblock and then fail
split_free_page() due to the low watermark check. In this case, we hit
VM_BUG_ON() because the freeing scanner terminated early without a
contended lock or enough freepages.
This should never have been a VM_BUG_ON() since it's not a fatal
condition. It should have been a VM_WARN_ON() at best, or even handled
gracefully.
Regardless, we need to terminate anytime the full pageblock scan was not
done. The logic belongs in isolate_freepages_block(), so handle its
state gracefully by terminating the pageblock loop and making a note to
restart at the same pageblock next time since it was not possible to
complete the scan this time.
[rientjes@google.com: don't rescan pages in a pageblock]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1607111244150.83138@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1606291436300.145590@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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