From 195b0c60809ce841e5818b365808e7da3286fd3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gioh Kim Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 16:13:33 -0700 Subject: mm/compaction: reset compaction scanner positions When the compaction is activated via /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory it would better scan the whole zone. And some platforms, for instance ARM, have the start_pfn of a zone at zero. Therefore the first try to compact via /proc doesn't work. It needs to reset the compaction scanner position first. Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index 570426e..e6c4f94 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -1605,6 +1605,14 @@ static void __compact_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct compact_control *cc) INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc->freepages); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc->migratepages); + /* + * When called via /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory + * this makes sure we compact the whole zone regardless of + * cached scanner positions. + */ + if (cc->order == -1) + __reset_isolation_suitable(zone); + if (cc->order == -1 || !compaction_deferred(zone, cc->order)) compact_zone(zone, cc); -- cgit v0.10.2