Commit f7629915 authored by Johannes Weiner's avatar Johannes Weiner Committed by Kalesh Singh
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UPSTREAM: mm: page_alloc: fix up block types when merging compatible blocks

The buddy allocator coalesces compatible blocks during freeing, but it
doesn't update the types of the subblocks to match.  When an allocation
later breaks the chunk down again, its pieces will be put on freelists of
the wrong type.  This encourages incompatible page mixing (ask for one
type, get another), and thus long-term fragmentation.

Update the subblocks when merging a larger chunk, such that a later
expand() will maintain freelist type hygiene.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240320180429.678181-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org


Change-Id: I4c303fef4a5f95f7171fa48264d44ab989e8b263
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarZi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Tested-by: default avatar"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarBaolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit e6cf9e1c)
Bug: 420771453
Signed-off-by: default avatarKalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
parent cb610236
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