linux-kernel - Re: [resend][PATCH] mm, lockdep: annotate reclaim context to zone reclaim too

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Date:	Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:46:38 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [resend][PATCH] mm, lockdep: annotate reclaim context to zone 
	reclaim too

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:16 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro
<kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> Commit cf40bd16fd (lockdep: annotate reclaim context) introduced reclaim
> context annotation. But it didn't annotate zone reclaim. This patch do it.
>
> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>

I think your good explanation in previous thread is good for
changelog. so I readd in here.
If you mind this, feel free to discard.
I don't care about it. :)

---

<kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
The point is zone-reclaim doesn't use
__alloc_pages_direct_reclaim.
current call graph is

__alloc_pages_nodemask
   get_page_from_freelist
       zone_reclaim()
   __alloc_pages_slowpath
       __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim
           try_to_free_pages

Actually, if zone_reclaim_mode=1, VM never call
__alloc_pages_direct_reclaim in usual VM pressure.
Thus I think zone-reclaim should be annotated explicitly too.
I know almost user don't use zone reclaim mode. but explicit
annotation doesn't have any demerit, I think.

-- 
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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