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authorJason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>2016-05-05 16:22:12 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-05-05 17:38:53 -0700
commitbc22af74f271ef76b2e6f72f3941f91f0da3f5f8 (patch)
treeec5f476367d96d0728c95e9de5337f0e1a1a7e13 /mm
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mm: update min_free_kbytes from khugepaged after core initialization
Khugepaged attempts to raise min_free_kbytes if its set too low. However, on boot khugepaged sets min_free_kbytes first from subsys_initcall(), and then the mm 'core' over-rides min_free_kbytes after from init_per_zone_wmark_min(), via a module_init() call. Khugepaged used to use a late_initcall() to set min_free_kbytes (such that it occurred after the core initialization), however this was removed when the initialization of min_free_kbytes was integrated into the starting of the khugepaged thread. The fix here is simply to invoke the core initialization using a core_initcall() instead of module_init(), such that the previous initialization ordering is restored. I didn't restore the late_initcall() since start_stop_khugepaged() already sets min_free_kbytes via set_recommended_min_free_kbytes(). This was noticed when we had a number of page allocation failures when moving a workload to a kernel with this new initialization ordering. On an 8GB system this restores min_free_kbytes back to 67584 from 11365 when CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y is set and either CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS=y or CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE=y. Fixes: 79553da293d3 ("thp: cleanup khugepaged startup") Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 59de90d5d3a3..c1069efcc4d7 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -6485,7 +6485,7 @@ int __meminit init_per_zone_wmark_min(void)
setup_per_zone_inactive_ratio();
return 0;
}
-module_init(init_per_zone_wmark_min)
+core_initcall(init_per_zone_wmark_min)
/*
* min_free_kbytes_sysctl_handler - just a wrapper around proc_dointvec() so