+ mm-page_alloc-correct-return-value-of-populated-elements-if-bulk-array-is-populated.patch added to -mm tree

+ mm-page_alloc-correct-return-value-of-populated-elements-if-bulk-array-is-populated.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm/page_alloc: correct return value of populated elements if bulk array is populated
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     mm-page_alloc-correct-return-value-of-populated-elements-if-bulk-array-is-populated.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-page_alloc-correct-return-value-of-populated-elements-if-bulk-array-is-populated.patch
and later at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-page_alloc-correct-return-value-of-populated-elements-if-bulk-array-is-populated.patch

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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Subject: mm/page_alloc: correct return value of populated elements if bulk array is populated

Dave Jones reported the following

	This made it into 5.13 final, and completely breaks NFSD for me
	(Serving tcp v3 mounts).  Existing mounts on clients hang, as do
	new mounts from new clients.  Rebooting the server back to rc7
	everything recovers.

The commit b3b64ebd3822 ("mm/page_alloc: do bulk array bounds check after
checking populated elements") returns the wrong value if the array is
already populated which is interpreted as an allocation failure.  Dave
reported this fixes his problem and it also passed a test running dbench
over NFS.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210628150219.GC3840@techsingularity.net
Fixes: b3b64ebd3822 ("mm/page_alloc: do bulk array bounds check after checking populated elements")
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [5.13+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/page_alloc.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-correct-return-value-of-populated-elements-if-bulk-array-is-populated
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5058,7 +5058,7 @@ unsigned long __alloc_pages_bulk(gfp_t g
 
 	/* Already populated array? */
 	if (unlikely(page_array && nr_pages - nr_populated == 0))
-		return 0;
+		return nr_populated;
 
 	/* Use the single page allocator for one page. */
 	if (nr_pages - nr_populated == 1)
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from mgorman@techsingularity.net are

mm-page_alloc-correct-return-value-of-populated-elements-if-bulk-array-is-populated.patch
mm-page_alloc-split-per-cpu-page-lists-and-zone-stats.patch
mm-page_alloc-split-per-cpu-page-lists-and-zone-stats-fix.patch
mm-page_alloc-split-per-cpu-page-lists-and-zone-stats-fix-fix.patch
mm-page_alloc-convert-per-cpu-list-protection-to-local_lock.patch
mm-page_alloc-convert-per-cpu-list-protection-to-local_lock-fix.patch
mm-vmstat-convert-numa-statistics-to-basic-numa-counters.patch
mm-vmstat-inline-numa-event-counter-updates.patch
mm-page_alloc-batch-the-accounting-updates-in-the-bulk-allocator.patch
mm-page_alloc-reduce-duration-that-irqs-are-disabled-for-vm-counters.patch
mm-page_alloc-explicitly-acquire-the-zone-lock-in-__free_pages_ok.patch
mm-page_alloc-avoid-conflating-irqs-disabled-with-zone-lock.patch
mm-page_alloc-update-pgfree-outside-the-zone-lock-in-__free_pages_ok.patch
mm-page_alloc-delete-vmpercpu_pagelist_fraction.patch
mm-page_alloc-disassociate-the-pcp-high-from-pcp-batch.patch
mm-page_alloc-disassociate-the-pcp-high-from-pcp-batch-fix-2.patch
mm-page_alloc-adjust-pcp-high-after-cpu-hotplug-events.patch
mm-page_alloc-scale-the-number-of-pages-that-are-batch-freed.patch
mm-page_alloc-limit-the-number-of-pages-on-pcp-lists-when-reclaim-is-active.patch
mm-page_alloc-introduce-vmpercpu_pagelist_high_fraction.patch
mm-page_alloc-introduce-vmpercpu_pagelist_high_fraction-fix.patch
mm-page_alloc-move-free_the_page.patch
mm-page_alloc-allow-high-order-pages-to-be-stored-on-the-per-cpu-lists.patch
mm-page_alloc-split-pcp-high-across-all-online-cpus-for-cpuless-nodes.patch
mm-vmscan-remove-kerneldoc-like-comment-from-isolate_lru_pages.patch
mm-vmalloc-include-header-for-prototype-of-set_iounmap_nonlazy.patch
mm-page_alloc-make-should_fail_alloc_page-a-static-function-should_fail_alloc_page-static.patch
mm-mapping_dirty_helpers-remove-double-note-in-kerneldoc.patch
mm-memcontrolc-fix-kerneldoc-comment-for-mem_cgroup_calculate_protection.patch
mm-memory_hotplug-fix-kerneldoc-comment-for-__try_online_node.patch
mm-memory_hotplug-fix-kerneldoc-comment-for-__remove_memory.patch
mm-zbud-add-kerneldoc-fields-for-zbud_pool.patch
mm-z3fold-add-kerneldoc-fields-for-z3fold_pool.patch
mm-swap-make-swap_address_space-an-inline-function.patch
mm-mmap_lock-remove-dead-code-for-config_tracing-configurations.patch
mm-page_alloc-move-prototype-for-find_suitable_fallback.patch
mm-swap-make-node_data-an-inline-function-on-config_flatmem.patch