mm: page_alloc: fix up block types when merging compatible blocks
authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:02:08 +0000 (14:02 -0400)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 03:56:02 +0000 (20:56 -0700)
commite6cf9e1c4cde8a53385423ecb8ca581097f42e02
tree8a10dba0453bc5f49e3edcd1483fff16deab90b6
parent9cbe97bad5cd75b5b493734bd2695febb8e95281
mm: page_alloc: fix up block types when merging compatible blocks

The buddy allocator coalesces compatible blocks during freeing, but it
doesn't update the types of the subblocks to match.  When an allocation
later breaks the chunk down again, its pieces will be put on freelists of
the wrong type.  This encourages incompatible page mixing (ask for one
type, get another), and thus long-term fragmentation.

Update the subblocks when merging a larger chunk, such that a later
expand() will maintain freelist type hygiene.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240320180429.678181-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Tested-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c