mm/compaction: reset compaction scanner positions

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>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 570426edcadf..e6c4f9475d43 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -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);