Subject: page buddy can go away before reading page_order From: Andrea Arcangeli zone->lock isn't hold. Let's just skip this optimization. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli --- diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -262,10 +262,8 @@ static unsigned long isolate_migratepage /* Get the page and skip if free */ page = pfn_to_page(low_pfn); - if (PageBuddy(page)) { - low_pfn += (1 << page_order(page)) - 1; + if (PageBuddy(page)) continue; - } /* Try isolate the page */ if (__isolate_lru_page(page, ISOLATE_BOTH, 0) != 0)