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author | Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com> | 2012-10-08 16:33:06 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-10-09 16:22:54 +0900 |
commit | 7f1290f2f2a4d2c3f1b7ce8e87256e052ca23125 (patch) | |
tree | 10328fcb468647ba678e022911d5c2005080f309 /mm/nobootmem.c | |
parent | 05106e6a54aed321191b4bb5c9ee09538cbad3b1 (diff) | |
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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 'mm/nobootmem.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/nobootmem.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/nobootmem.c b/mm/nobootmem.c index bd82f6b31411..714d5d650470 100644 --- a/mm/nobootmem.c +++ b/mm/nobootmem.c @@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ static unsigned long __init __free_memory_core(phys_addr_t start, return 0; __free_pages_memory(start_pfn, end_pfn); + fixup_zone_present_pages(pfn_to_nid(start >> PAGE_SHIFT), + start_pfn, end_pfn); return end_pfn - start_pfn; } @@ -126,6 +128,7 @@ unsigned long __init free_low_memory_core_early(int nodeid) phys_addr_t start, end, size; u64 i; + reset_zone_present_pages(); for_each_free_mem_range(i, MAX_NUMNODES, &start, &end, NULL) count += __free_memory_core(start, end); |