tree 5e92da86e42e55b253cc04e10545e05b6b472542
parent ee6f509c3274014d1f52e7a7a10aee9f85393c5e
author Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> 1343778233 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1343785365 -0700

mm: fix free page check in zone_watermark_ok()

__zone_watermark_ok currently compares free_pages which is a signed type
with z->lowmem_reserve[classzone_idx] which is unsigned which might lead
to sign overflow if free_pages doesn't satisfy the given order (or it came
as negative already) and then we rely on the following order loop to fix
it (which doesn't work for order-0).  Let's fix the type conversion and do
not rely on the given value of free_pages or follow up fixups.

This patch fixes it because "memory-hotplug: fix kswapd looping forever
problem" depends on this.

As benefit of this patch, it doesn't rely on the loop to exit
__zone_watermark_ok in case of high order check and make the first test
effective.(ie, if (free_pages <= min + lowmem_reserve))

Aaditya reported this problem when he test my hotplug patch.

Reported-off-by: Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar@ap.sony.com>
Tested-by: Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar@ap.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar@ap.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>