linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: setup pageblock_order before it's used by sparse

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Date:	Tue, 3 Jul 2012 10:54:50 +0800
From:	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Keping Chen <chenkeping@...wei.com>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<stable@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jiang Liu <liuj97@...il.com>,
	David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>,
	<linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: setup pageblock_order before it's used by sparse

On 2012-7-3 4:43, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com> wrote:
>> Hi Yinghai,
>>         The patch fails compilation as below:
>> mm/page_alloc.c:151: error: initializer element is not constant
>> mm/page_alloc.c:151: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘;’ before ‘__attribute__’
>>
>> On IA64, HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER has dependency on variable hpage_shift.
>> # define HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER        (HPAGE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
>> # define HPAGE_SHIFT               hpage_shift
>>
>> And hpage_shift could be changed by early parameter "hugepagesz".
>> So seems will still need to keep function set_pageblock_order().
> 
> ah,  then use use _DEFAULT instead and later could update that in earlyparam.
> 
> So attached -v2 should  work.
Hi Yinghai,

I'm afraid the v2 will break powerpc. Currently only IA64 and PowerPC
supports variable hugetlb size. 

HPAGE_SHIFT is a variable default to 0 on powerpc. But seems PowerPC 
is doing something wrong here, according to it's mm initialization 
sequence as below:
start_kernel()
	setup_arch()
		paging_init()
			free_area_init_node()
				set_pageblock_order()
					refer to HPAGE_SHIFT (still 0)
	init_rest()	
		do_initcalls()
			hugetlbpage_init()
				setup HPAGE_SHIFT
That means pageblock_order is always set to "MAX_ORDER - 1", not sure
whether this is intended. And it has the same issue as IA64 of wasting
memory if CONFIG_SPARSE is enabled.

So it would be better to keep function set_pageblock_order(), it will
fix the memory wasting on both IA64 and PowerPC.

Thanks!
Gerry

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Yinghai


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