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authorJiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>2012-12-12 13:52:12 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-12-12 17:38:34 -0800
commit9feedc9d831e18ae6d0d15aa562e5e46ba53647b (patch)
treecb26ff54b0f02c4905772288b27f99b8b384ad6d /mm/page_alloc.c
parentc2d23f919bafcbc2259f5257d9a7d729802f0e3a (diff)
mm: introduce new field "managed_pages" to struct zone
Currently a zone's present_pages is calcuated as below, which is inaccurate and may cause trouble to memory hotplug. spanned_pages - absent_pages - memmap_pages - dma_reserve. During fixing bugs caused by inaccurate zone->present_pages, we found zone->present_pages has been abused. The field zone->present_pages may have different meanings in different contexts: 1) pages existing in a zone. 2) pages managed by the buddy system. For more discussions about the issue, please refer to: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/5/866 https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1346751/ This patchset tries to introduce a new field named "managed_pages" to struct zone, which counts "pages managed by the buddy system". And revert zone->present_pages to count "physical pages existing in a zone", which also keep in consistence with pgdat->node_present_pages. We will set an initial value for zone->managed_pages in function free_area_init_core() and will adjust it later if the initial value is inaccurate. For DMA/normal zones, the initial value is set to: (spanned_pages - absent_pages - memmap_pages - dma_reserve) Later zone->managed_pages will be adjusted to the accurate value when the bootmem allocator frees all free pages to the buddy system in function free_all_bootmem_node() and free_all_bootmem(). The bootmem allocator doesn't touch highmem pages, so highmem zones' managed_pages is set to the accurate value "spanned_pages - absent_pages" in function free_area_init_core() and won't be updated anymore. This patch also adds a new field "managed_pages" to /proc/zoneinfo and sysrq showmem. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: small comment tweaks] Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com> Tested-by: Chris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail.com> Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c44
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 2bf0d43d646..0b6a6d04300 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -735,6 +735,13 @@ static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
local_irq_restore(flags);
}
+/*
+ * Read access to zone->managed_pages is safe because it's unsigned long,
+ * but we still need to serialize writers. Currently all callers of
+ * __free_pages_bootmem() except put_page_bootmem() should only be used
+ * at boot time. So for shorter boot time, we shift the burden to
+ * put_page_bootmem() to serialize writers.
+ */
void __meminit __free_pages_bootmem(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
{
unsigned int nr_pages = 1 << order;
@@ -750,6 +757,7 @@ void __meminit __free_pages_bootmem(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
set_page_count(p, 0);
}
+ page_zone(page)->managed_pages += 1 << order;
set_page_refcounted(page);
__free_pages(page, order);
}
@@ -2984,6 +2992,7 @@ void show_free_areas(unsigned int filter)
" isolated(anon):%lukB"
" isolated(file):%lukB"
" present:%lukB"
+ " managed:%lukB"
" mlocked:%lukB"
" dirty:%lukB"
" writeback:%lukB"
@@ -3013,6 +3022,7 @@ void show_free_areas(unsigned int filter)
K(zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON)),
K(zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_FILE)),
K(zone->present_pages),
+ K(zone->managed_pages),
K(zone_page_state(zone, NR_MLOCK)),
K(zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_DIRTY)),
K(zone_page_state(zone, NR_WRITEBACK)),
@@ -4502,48 +4512,54 @@ static void __paginginit free_area_init_core(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
for (j = 0; j < MAX_NR_ZONES; j++) {
struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + j;
- unsigned long size, realsize, memmap_pages;
+ unsigned long size, realsize, freesize, memmap_pages;
size = zone_spanned_pages_in_node(nid, j, zones_size);
- realsize = size - zone_absent_pages_in_node(nid, j,
+ realsize = freesize = size - zone_absent_pages_in_node(nid, j,
zholes_size);
/*
- * Adjust realsize so that it accounts for how much memory
+ * Adjust freesize so that it accounts for how much memory
* is used by this zone for memmap. This affects the watermark
* and per-cpu initialisations
*/
memmap_pages =
PAGE_ALIGN(size * sizeof(struct page)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
- if (realsize >= memmap_pages) {
- realsize -= memmap_pages;
+ if (freesize >= memmap_pages) {
+ freesize -= memmap_pages;
if (memmap_pages)
printk(KERN_DEBUG
" %s zone: %lu pages used for memmap\n",
zone_names[j], memmap_pages);
} else
printk(KERN_WARNING
- " %s zone: %lu pages exceeds realsize %lu\n",
- zone_names[j], memmap_pages, realsize);
+ " %s zone: %lu pages exceeds freesize %lu\n",
+ zone_names[j], memmap_pages, freesize);
/* Account for reserved pages */
- if (j == 0 && realsize > dma_reserve) {
- realsize -= dma_reserve;
+ if (j == 0 && freesize > dma_reserve) {
+ freesize -= dma_reserve;
printk(KERN_DEBUG " %s zone: %lu pages reserved\n",
zone_names[0], dma_reserve);
}
if (!is_highmem_idx(j))
- nr_kernel_pages += realsize;
- nr_all_pages += realsize;
+ nr_kernel_pages += freesize;
+ nr_all_pages += freesize;
zone->spanned_pages = size;
- zone->present_pages = realsize;
+ zone->present_pages = freesize;
+ /*
+ * Set an approximate value for lowmem here, it will be adjusted
+ * when the bootmem allocator frees pages into the buddy system.
+ * And all highmem pages will be managed by the buddy system.
+ */
+ zone->managed_pages = is_highmem_idx(j) ? realsize : freesize;
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
zone->node = nid;
- zone->min_unmapped_pages = (realsize*sysctl_min_unmapped_ratio)
+ zone->min_unmapped_pages = (freesize*sysctl_min_unmapped_ratio)
/ 100;
- zone->min_slab_pages = (realsize * sysctl_min_slab_ratio) / 100;
+ zone->min_slab_pages = (freesize * sysctl_min_slab_ratio) / 100;
#endif
zone->name = zone_names[j];
spin_lock_init(&zone->lock);