mm/page_alloc: fix the page address of higher page's buddy calculation
authorLi Haifeng <omycle@gmail.com>
Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:09:21 +0000 (14:09 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:00:38 +0000 (15:00 -0700)
The heuristic method for buddy has been introduced since commit
43506fad21ca ("mm/page_alloc.c: simplify calculation of combined index
of adjacent buddy lists").  But the page address of higher page's buddy
was wrongly calculated, which will lead page_is_buddy to fail for ever.
IOW, the heuristic method would be disabled with the wrong page address
of higher page's buddy.

Calculating the page address of higher page's buddy should be based
higher_page with the offset between index of higher page and index of
higher page's buddy.

Signed-off-by: Haifeng Li <omycle@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KyongHo Cho <pullip.cho@samsung.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [2.6.38+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c

index c66fb87..c13ea75 100644 (file)
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page,
                combined_idx = buddy_idx & page_idx;
                higher_page = page + (combined_idx - page_idx);
                buddy_idx = __find_buddy_index(combined_idx, order + 1);
-               higher_buddy = page + (buddy_idx - combined_idx);
+               higher_buddy = higher_page + (buddy_idx - combined_idx);
                if (page_is_buddy(higher_page, higher_buddy, order + 1)) {
                        list_add_tail(&page->lru,
                                &zone->free_area[order].free_list[migratetype]);