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mm/page_alloc.c: fix regression with deferred struct page init
Commit 0e56aca ("mm: initialize MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES at a time instead of doing larger sections") is causing a regression on some systems when the kernel is booted as Xen dom0. The system will just hang in early boot. Reason is an endless loop in get_page_from_freelist() in case the first zone looked at has no free memory. deferred_grow_zone() is always returning true due to the following code snipplet: /* If the zone is empty somebody else may have cleared out the zone */ if (!deferred_init_mem_pfn_range_in_zone(&i, zone, &spfn, &epfn, first_deferred_pfn)) { pgdat->first_deferred_pfn = ULONG_MAX; pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags); return true; } This in turn results in the loop as get_page_from_freelist() is assuming forward progress can be made by doing some more struct page initialization. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Fixes: 0e56aca ("mm: initialize MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES at a time instead of doing larger sections") Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <[email protected]> Suggested-by: Alexander Duyck <[email protected]> Acked-by: Alexander Duyck <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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