linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: fix a regression with HIGHMEM introduced by changeset 7f1290f2f2a4d

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Date:	Tue, 6 Nov 2012 09:31:57 +0800
From:	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@...il.com>
CC:	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>,
	Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@...wei.com>,
	Chris Clayton <chris2553@...glemail.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: fix a regression with HIGHMEM introduced by changeset 7f1290f2f2a4d

Changeset 7f1290f2f2 tries to fix a issue when calculating
zone->present_pages, but it causes a regression to 32bit systems with
HIGHMEM. With that changeset, function reset_zone_present_pages()
resets all zone->present_pages to zero, and fixup_zone_present_pages()
is called to recalculate zone->present_pages when boot allocator frees
core memory pages into buddy allocator. Because highmem pages are not
freed by bootmem allocator, all highmem zones' present_pages becomes
zero.

Actually there's no need to recalculate present_pages for highmem zone
because bootmem allocator never allocates pages from them. So fix the
regression by skipping highmem in function reset_zone_present_pages()
and fixup_zone_present_pages().

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@...wei.com>
Reported-by: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@...il.com>
Tested-by: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@...il.com>
Cc: Chris Clayton <chris2553@...glemail.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org

---

Hi Maciej,
	Thanks for reporting and bisecting. We have analyzed the regression
and worked out a patch for it. Could you please help to verify whether it
fix the regression?
	Thanks!
	Gerry

---
 mm/page_alloc.c |    8 +++++---
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 5b74de6..2311f15 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -6108,7 +6108,8 @@ void reset_zone_present_pages(void)
 	for_each_node_state(nid, N_HIGH_MEMORY) {
 		for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) {
 			z = NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zones + i;
-			z->present_pages = 0;
+			if (!is_highmem(z))
+				z->present_pages = 0;
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -6123,10 +6124,11 @@ void fixup_zone_present_pages(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn,

 	for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) {
 		z = NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zones + i;
+		if (is_highmem(z))
+			continue;
+
 		zone_start_pfn = z->zone_start_pfn;
 		zone_end_pfn = zone_start_pfn + z->spanned_pages;
-
-		/* if the two regions intersect */
 		if (!(zone_start_pfn >= end_pfn	|| zone_end_pfn <= start_pfn))
 			z->present_pages += min(end_pfn, zone_end_pfn) -
 					    max(start_pfn, zone_start_pfn);
-- 
1.7.1

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