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From 424f6c4818bbf1b8ccf58aa012ecc19c0bb9b446 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:18:05 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 179/273] mm: alloc_contig: re-allow CMA to compact FS pages

Commit 73e64c51afc5 ("mm, compaction: allow compaction for GFP_NOFS
requests") changed compation to skip FS pages if not explicitly allowed
to touch them, but missed to update the CMA compact_control.

This leads to a very high isolation failure rate, crippling performance
of CMA even on a lightly loaded system.  Re-allow CMA to compact FS
pages by setting the correct GFP flags, restoring CMA behavior and
performance to the kernel 4.9 level.

Fixes: 73e64c51afc5 (mm, compaction: allow compaction for GFP_NOFS requests)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170113115155.24335-1-l.stach@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index d604d25..41d5e2e 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -7248,6 +7248,7 @@ int alloc_contig_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 		.zone = page_zone(pfn_to_page(start)),
 		.mode = MIGRATE_SYNC,
 		.ignore_skip_hint = true,
+		.gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
 	};
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc.migratepages);
 
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2.9.3