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mm/compaction: reset compaction scanner positions
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When the compaction is activated via /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory it would
better scan the whole zone.  And some platforms, for instance ARM, have
the start_pfn of a zone at zero.  Therefore the first try to compact via
/proc doesn't work.  It needs to reset the compaction scanner position
first.

Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim <gioh.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Gioh Kim authored and Linus Torvalds committed Apr 15, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -1605,6 +1605,14 @@ static void __compact_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct compact_control *cc)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc->freepages);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc->migratepages);

/*
* When called via /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory
* this makes sure we compact the whole zone regardless of
* cached scanner positions.
*/
if (cc->order == -1)
__reset_isolation_suitable(zone);

if (cc->order == -1 || !compaction_deferred(zone, cc->order))
compact_zone(zone, cc);

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