Commits
Mel Gorman committed 94b3334cbeb
mm, page_alloc: fix a division by zero error when boosting watermarks v2
Yury Norov reported that an arm64 KVM instance could not boot since
after v5.0-rc1 and could addressed by reverting the patches
1c30844d2dfe272d58c ("mm: reclaim small amounts of memory when an external
73444bc4d8f92e46a20 ("mm, page_alloc: do not wake kswapd with zone lock held")
The problem is that a division by zero error is possible if boosting
occurs very early in boot if the system has very little memory. This
patch avoids the division by zero error.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190213143012.GT9565@techsingularity.net
Fixes: 1c30844d2dfe ("mm: reclaim small amounts of memory when an external fragmentation event occurs")
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reported-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>