From b7f8d6ea7b611e4eba19c154fcd95d59d9a17aac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 22:19:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] mm, page_alloc: fix a division by zero error when boosting
 watermarks v2

References: git fixes (mm/page_alloc)
Patch-mainline: v5.0
Git-commit: 94b3334cbebea34d56a7e6321c6fe9d89b309a49

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@suse.de>
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>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 3103a0cad857..4e2e2c29f81f 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2024,6 +2024,18 @@ static inline void boost_watermark(struct zone *zone)
 
 	max_boost = mult_frac(zone->_watermark[WMARK_HIGH],
 			watermark_boost_factor, 10000);
+
+	/*
+	 * high watermark may be uninitialised if fragmentation occurs
+	 * very early in boot so do not boost. We do not fall
+	 * through and boost by pageblock_nr_pages as failing
+	 * allocations that early means that reclaim is not going
+	 * to help and it may even be impossible to reclaim the
+	 * boosted watermark resulting in a hang.
+	 */
+	if (!max_boost)
+		return;
+
 	max_boost = max(pageblock_nr_pages, max_boost);
 
 	zone->watermark_boost = min(zone->watermark_boost + pageblock_nr_pages,