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Date:   Tue, 24 May 2022 12:55:43 +0100
From:   Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
To:     Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] mm/page_alloc: Split out buddy removal code from
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On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 05:09:21PM +0100, Qais Yousef wrote:
> On 05/12/22 09:50, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > This is a preparation page to allow the buddy removal code to be reused
> > in a later patch.
> > 
> > No functional change.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
> > Tested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> > Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> > ---
> 
> I see this splat when this patch is applied on 5.10.107 kernel:
> 

<SNIP>

> I could resolve it by applying this patch:
> 
> 	diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
> 	index 80c1e0a0f094e..92fb0c08296ef 100644
> 	--- a/mm/vmstat.c
> 	+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
> 	@@ -957,11 +957,11 @@ void __inc_numa_state(struct zone *zone,
> 		u16 __percpu *p = pcp->vm_numa_stat_diff + item;
> 		u16 v;
> 
> 	-       v = __this_cpu_inc_return(*p);
> 	+       v = this_cpu_inc_return(*p);
> 
> 		if (unlikely(v > NUMA_STATS_THRESHOLD)) {
> 			zone_numa_state_add(v, zone, item);
> 	-               __this_cpu_write(*p, 0);
> 	+               this_cpu_write(*p, 0);
> 		}
> 	 }
> 

5.18 does not have __inc_numa_state() so it's likely you are missing
backports, probably f19298b9516c1a031b34b4147773457e3efe743b at minimum.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs