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mm/page_alloc: batch page freeing in decay_pcp_high
authorJoshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:28:07 +0000 (06:28 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:18:52 +0000 (11:18 +0100)
commit22056349e8ec9ce0e1080c98a913edd97ce74aab
tree711f9c00055f16c1c9c38ba1b669c10a42d1fd81
parent48273ed85fa0aed36ec741dcef731daa2c0a55c7
mm/page_alloc: batch page freeing in decay_pcp_high

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It is possible for pcp->count - pcp->high to exceed pcp->batch by a lot.
When this happens, we should perform batching to ensure that
free_pcppages_bulk isn't called with too many pages to free at once and
starve out other threads that need the pcp or zone lock.

Since we are still only freeing the difference between the initial
pcp->count and pcp->high values, there should be no change to how many
pages are freed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251014145011.3427205-3-joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Co-developed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Stable-dep-of: 038a102535eb ("mm/page_alloc: prevent pcp corruption with SMP=n")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c