1 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 880831bd3003..67af4cea1e23 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ static void migrate_page_add(struct page *page, struct list_head *pagelist,
          */
         if ((flags & MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL) || page_mapcount(page) == 1) {
                 if (isolate_lru_page(page))
-                        list_add(&page->lru, pagelist);
+                        list_add_tail(&page->lru, pagelist);
         }
 }
 
@@ -569,6 +569,7 @@ static int migrate_pages_to(struct list_head *pagelist,
         LIST_HEAD(moved);
         LIST_HEAD(failed);
         int err = 0;
+        unsigned long offset = 0;
         int nr_pages;
         struct page *page;
         struct list_head *p;
@@ -576,8 +577,21 @@ static int migrate_pages_to(struct list_head *pagelist,
 redo:
         nr_pages = 0;
         list_for_each(p, pagelist) {
-                if (vma)
-                        page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER, vma, vma->vm_start);
+                if (vma) {
+                        /*
+                         * The address passed to alloc_page_vma is used to
+                         * generate the proper interleave behavior. We fake
+                         * the address here by an increasing offset in order
+                         * to get the proper distribution of pages.
+                         *
+                         * No decision has been made as to which page
+                         * a certain old page is moved to so we cannot
+                         * specify the correct address.
+                         */
+                        page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER, vma,
+                                        offset + vma->vm_start);
+                        offset += PAGE_SIZE;
+                }
                 else
                         page = alloc_pages_node(dest, GFP_HIGHUSER, 0);
 
@@ -585,7 +599,7 @@ redo:
                         err = -ENOMEM;
                         goto out;
                 }
-                list_add(&page->lru, &newlist);
+                list_add_tail(&page->lru, &newlist);
                 nr_pages++;
                 if (nr_pages > MIGRATE_CHUNK_SIZE)
                         break;