Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)

Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
  mm: page_alloc: exempt GFP_THISNODE allocations from zone fairness
  mm: numa: bugfix for LAST_CPUPID_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS
  MAINTAINERS: add and correct types of some "T:" entries
  MAINTAINERS: use tab for separator
  rapidio/tsi721: fix tasklet termination in dma channel release
  hfsplus: fix remount issue
  zram: avoid null access when fail to alloc meta
  sh: prefix sh-specific "CCR" and "CCR2" by "SH_"
  ocfs2: fix quota file corruption
  drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c: fix incorrect way of save/restore of S3C2410_TICNT for TYPE_S3C64XX
  kallsyms: fix absolute addresses for kASLR
  scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh: fix flags for initramfs LZ4 compression
  mm: include VM_MIXEDMAP flag in the VM_SPECIAL list to avoid m(un)locking
  memcg: reparent charges of children before processing parent
  memcg: fix endless loop in __mem_cgroup_iter_next()
  lib/radix-tree.c: swapoff tmpfs radix_tree: remember to rcu_read_unlock
  dma debug: account for cachelines and read-only mappings in overlap tracking
  mm: close PageTail race
  MAINTAINERS: EDAC: add Mauro and Borislav as interim patch collectors

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index e3758a09a009..3bac76ae4b30 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -369,9 +369,11 @@ void prep_compound_page(struct page *page, unsigned long order)
 	__SetPageHead(page);
 	for (i = 1; i < nr_pages; i++) {
 		struct page *p = page + i;
-		__SetPageTail(p);
 		set_page_count(p, 0);
 		p->first_page = page;
+		/* Make sure p->first_page is always valid for PageTail() */
+		smp_wmb();
+		__SetPageTail(p);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -1236,6 +1238,15 @@ void drain_zone_pages(struct zone *zone, struct per_cpu_pages *pcp)
 	}
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
+static bool gfp_thisnode_allocation(gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+	return (gfp_mask & GFP_THISNODE) == GFP_THISNODE;
+}
+#else
+static bool gfp_thisnode_allocation(gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+	return false;
+}
 #endif
 
 /*
@@ -1572,7 +1583,13 @@ again:
 					  get_pageblock_migratetype(page));
 	}
 
-	__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ALLOC_BATCH, -(1 << order));
+	/*
+	 * NOTE: GFP_THISNODE allocations do not partake in the kswapd
+	 * aging protocol, so they can't be fair.
+	 */
+	if (!gfp_thisnode_allocation(gfp_flags))
+		__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ALLOC_BATCH, -(1 << order));
+
 	__count_zone_vm_events(PGALLOC, zone, 1 << order);
 	zone_statistics(preferred_zone, zone, gfp_flags);
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
@@ -1944,8 +1961,12 @@ zonelist_scan:
 		 * ultimately fall back to remote zones that do not
 		 * partake in the fairness round-robin cycle of this
 		 * zonelist.
+		 *
+		 * NOTE: GFP_THISNODE allocations do not partake in
+		 * the kswapd aging protocol, so they can't be fair.
 		 */
-		if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_LOW) {
+		if ((alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_LOW) &&
+		    !gfp_thisnode_allocation(gfp_mask)) {
 			if (zone_page_state(zone, NR_ALLOC_BATCH) <= 0)
 				continue;
 			if (!zone_local(preferred_zone, zone))
@@ -2501,8 +2522,7 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 	 * allowed per node queues are empty and that nodes are
 	 * over allocated.
 	 */
-	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA) &&
-			(gfp_mask & GFP_THISNODE) == GFP_THISNODE)
+	if (gfp_thisnode_allocation(gfp_mask))
 		goto nopage;
 
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