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When a block is partially outside the zone of the cursor page, the function cuts the range to the pivot page instead of the zone start. This can leave large parts of the block behind, which encourages incompatible page mixing down the line (ask for one type, get another), and thus long-term fragmentation. This triggers reliably on the first block in the DMA zone, whose start_pfn is 1. The block is stolen, but everything before the pivot page (which was often hundreds of pages) is left on the old list. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240320180429.678181-6-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.