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Currently, page block type conversion during fallbacks, atomic reservations and isolation can strand various amounts of free pages on incorrect freelists. For example, fallback stealing moves free pages in the block to the new type's freelists, but then may not actually claim the block for that type if there aren't enough compatible pages already allocated. In all cases, free page moving might fail if the block straddles more than one zone, in which case no free pages are moved at all, but the block type is changed anyway. This is detrimental to type hygiene on the freelists. It encourages incompatible page mixing down the line (ask for one type, get another) and thus contributes to long-term fragmentation. Split the process into a proper transaction: check first if conversion will happen, then try to move the free pages, and only if that was successful convert the block to the new type. [baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com: fix allocation failures with CONFIG_CMA] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a97697e0-45b0-4f71-b087-fdc7a1d43c0e@linux.alibaba.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240320180429.678181-7-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Tested-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.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.