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authorJianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>2012-10-08 16:33:06 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-09 16:22:54 +0900
commit7f1290f2f2a4d2c3f1b7ce8e87256e052ca23125 (patch)
tree10328fcb468647ba678e022911d5c2005080f309 /include/linux
parent05106e6a54aed321191b4bb5c9ee09538cbad3b1 (diff)
mm: fix-up zone present pages
I think zone->present_pages indicates pages that buddy system can management, it should be: zone->present_pages = spanned pages - absent pages - bootmem pages, but is now: zone->present_pages = spanned pages - absent pages - memmap pages. spanned pages: total size, including holes. absent pages: holes. bootmem pages: pages used in system boot, managed by bootmem allocator. memmap pages: pages used by page structs. This may cause zone->present_pages less than it should be. For example, numa node 1 has ZONE_NORMAL and ZONE_MOVABLE, it's memmap and other bootmem will be allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE, so ZONE_NORMAL's present_pages should be spanned pages - absent pages, but now it also minus memmap pages(free_area_init_core), which are actually allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE. When offlining all memory of a zone, this will cause zone->present_pages less than 0, because present_pages is unsigned long type, it is actually a very large integer, it indirectly caused zone->watermark[WMARK_MIN] becomes a large integer(setup_per_zone_wmarks()), than cause totalreserve_pages become a large integer(calculate_totalreserve_pages()), and finally cause memory allocating failure when fork process(__vm_enough_memory()). [root@localhost ~]# dmesg -bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory I think the bug described in http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=134502182714186&w=2 is also caused by wrong zone present pages. This patch intends to fix-up zone->present_pages when memory are freed to buddy system on x86_64 and IA64 platforms. Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Reported-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz> Tested-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index bcaab4e6fe91..fa0680402738 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1684,5 +1684,9 @@ static inline unsigned int debug_guardpage_minorder(void) { return 0; }
static inline bool page_is_guard(struct page *page) { return false; }
#endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC */
+extern void reset_zone_present_pages(void);
+extern void fixup_zone_present_pages(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn,
+ unsigned long end_pfn);
+
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* _LINUX_MM_H */