From: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Daniel Palmer <daniel@0x0f.com>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
kernel-team@meta.com
Subject: [PATCH v2] mm/page_alloc: Report 1 as zone_batchsize for !CONFIG_MMU
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:31:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251218083200.2435789-1-joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com> (raw)
Commit 2783088ef24e ("mm/page_alloc: prevent reporting pcp->batch = 0")
moved the error handling (0-handling) of zone_batchsize from its
callers to inside the function. However, the commit left out the error
handling for the NOMMU case, leading to deadlocks on NOMMU systems.
For NOMMU systems, return 1 instead of 0 for zone_batchsize, which restores
the previous deadlock-free behavior.
There is no functional difference expected with this patch before commit
2783088ef24e, other than the pr_debug in zone_pcp_init now printing out
1 instead of 0 for zones in NOMMU systems. Not only is this a pr_debug,
the difference is purely semantic anyways.
Fixes: 2783088ef24e ("mm/page_alloc: prevent reporting pcp->batch = 0")
Reported-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel@thingy.jp>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAFr9PX=_HaM3_xPtTiBn5Gw5-0xcRpawpJ02NStfdr0khF2k7g@mail.gmail.com/
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/42143500-c380-41fe-815c-696c17241506@roeck-us.net/
Signed-off-by: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
---
v1 --> v2:
- Instead of restoring max(1, zone_batchsize(zone)), just return 1 for NOMMU
systems since this is simpler and only affects a single pr_debug.
mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 822e05f1a964..977cbf20777d 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5924,7 +5924,7 @@ static int zone_batchsize(struct zone *zone)
* recycled, this leads to the once large chunks of space being
* fragmented and becoming unavailable for high-order allocations.
*/
- return 0;
+ return 1;
#endif
}
base-commit: 40fbbd64bba6c6e7a72885d2f59b6a3be9991eeb
--
2.47.3
next reply other threads:[~2025-12-18 8:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-18 8:31 Joshua Hahn [this message]
2025-12-18 11:23 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-12-18 12:30 ` Daniel Palmer
2025-12-18 15:39 ` Guenter Roeck
2025-12-19 15:51 ` Hajime Tazaki
2025-12-18 15:39 ` Guenter Roeck
2025-12-20 2:41 ` SeongJae Park
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