The patch titled Subject: mm/page_alloc: fix counting of free pages after take off from buddy has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-page_alloc-fix-counting-of-free-pages-after-take-off-from-buddy.patch

This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-page_alloc-fix-counting-of-free... and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-page_alloc-fix-counting-of-free...

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------------------------------------------------------ From: Ding Hui dinghui@sangfor.com.cn Subject: mm/page_alloc: fix counting of free pages after take off from buddy

Recently we found that there is a lot MemFree left in /proc/meminfo after do a lot of pages soft offline, it's not quite correct.

Before Oscar rework soft offline for free pages [1], if we soft offline free pages, these pages are left in buddy with HWPoison flag, and NR_FREE_PAGES is not updated immediately. So the difference between NR_FREE_PAGES and real number of available free pages is also even big at the beginning.

However, with the workload running, when we catch HWPoison page in any alloc functions subsequently, we will remove it from buddy, meanwhile update the NR_FREE_PAGES and try again, so the NR_FREE_PAGES will get more and more closer to the real number of available free pages. (regardless of unpoison_memory())

Now, for offline free pages, after a successful call take_page_off_buddy(), the page is no longer belong to buddy allocator, and will not be used any more, but we missed accounting NR_FREE_PAGES in this situation, and there is no chance to be updated later.

Do update in take_page_off_buddy() like rmqueue() does, but avoid double counting if some one already set_migratetype_isolate() on the page.

[1]: commit 06be6ff3d2ec ("mm,hwpoison: rework soft offline for free pages")

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210526075247.11130-1-dinghui@sangfor.com.cn Fixes: 06be6ff3d2ec ("mm,hwpoison: rework soft offline for free pages") Signed-off-by: Ding Hui dinghui@sangfor.com.cn Suggested-by: Naoya Horiguchi naoya.horiguchi@nec.com Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador osalvador@suse.de Acked-by: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

mm/page_alloc.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-fix-counting-of-free-pages-after-take-off-from-buddy +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -9158,6 +9158,8 @@ bool take_page_off_buddy(struct page *pa del_page_from_free_list(page_head, zone, page_order); break_down_buddy_pages(zone, page_head, page, 0, page_order, migratetype); + if (!is_migrate_isolate(migratetype)) + __mod_zone_freepage_state(zone, -1, migratetype); ret = true; break; } _

Patches currently in -mm which might be from dinghui@sangfor.com.cn are

mm-page_alloc-fix-counting-of-free-pages-after-take-off-from-buddy.patch