From: Michal Hocko Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 04:41:50 +0000 (+1100) Subject: mm: fix off-by-two in __zone_watermark_ok() X-Git-Tag: next-20111209~3^2~139 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d5219b0c21a77cdcfc381fdd9fbd4d8118f4bdcb;p=karo-tx-linux.git mm: fix off-by-two in __zone_watermark_ok() 88f5acf8 ("mm: page allocator: adjust the per-cpu counter threshold when memory is low") changed the form how free_pages is calculated but it forgot that we used to do free_pages - ((1 << order) - 1) so we ended up with off-by-two when calculating free_pages. Reported-by: Wang Sheng-Hui Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index c52349a0adb0..af5467e3faa4 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1538,7 +1538,7 @@ static bool __zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, int order, unsigned long mark, long min = mark; int o; - free_pages -= (1 << order) + 1; + free_pages -= (1 << order) - 1; if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_HIGH) min -= min / 2; if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_HARDER)