From bc22af74f271ef76b2e6f72f3941f91f0da3f5f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Baron Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 16:22:12 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 -- 2.30.2