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Message-ID: <xa1tppdnnkwn.fsf@mina86.com>
Date:	Mon, 20 Oct 2014 11:35:36 +0200
From:	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>
To:	Pintu Kumar <pintu.k@...sung.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	hannes@...xchg.org, riel@...hat.com, mgorman@...e.de,
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	m.szyprowski@...sung.com, pintu.k@...sung.com,
	iamjoonsoo.kim@....com, aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	lauraa@...eaurora.org, gioh.kim@....com, rientjes@...gle.com,
	vbabka@...e.cz, sasha.levin@...cle.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
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	rohit.kr@...sung.com, ed.savinay@...sung.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: cma: split cma-reserved in dmesg log

On Mon, Oct 20 2014, Pintu Kumar <pintu.k@...sung.com> wrote:
> When the system boots up, in the dmesg logs we can see
> the memory statistics along with total reserved as below.
> Memory: 458840k/458840k available, 65448k reserved, 0K highmem
>
> When CMA is enabled, still the total reserved memory remains the same.
> However, the CMA memory is not considered as reserved.
> But, when we see /proc/meminfo, the CMA memory is part of free memory.
> This creates confusion.
> This patch corrects the problem by properly substracting the CMA reserved
> memory from the total reserved memory in dmesg logs.
>
> Below is the dmesg snaphot from an arm based device with 512MB RAM and
> 12MB single CMA region.
>
> Before this change:
> Memory: 458840k/458840k available, 65448k reserved, 0K highmem
>
> After this change:
> Memory: 458840k/458840k available, 53160k reserved, 12288k cma-reserved, 0K highmem
>
> Signed-off-by: Pintu Kumar <pintu.k@...sung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vishnu Pratap Singh <vishnu.ps@...sung.com>

Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>

> ---
>  include/linux/swap.h | 3 +++
>  mm/cma.c             | 2 ++
>  mm/page_alloc.c      | 8 ++++++++
>  3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
> index 37a585b..beb84be 100644
> --- a/include/linux/swap.h
> +++ b/include/linux/swap.h
> @@ -295,6 +295,9 @@ static inline void workingset_node_shadows_dec(struct radix_tree_node *node)
>  /* linux/mm/page_alloc.c */
>  extern unsigned long totalram_pages;
>  extern unsigned long totalreserve_pages;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CMA
> +extern unsigned long totalcma_pages;
> +#endif
>  extern unsigned long dirty_balance_reserve;
>  extern unsigned long nr_free_buffer_pages(void);
>  extern unsigned long nr_free_pagecache_pages(void);
> diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
> index 963bc4a..73fe7be 100644
> --- a/mm/cma.c
> +++ b/mm/cma.c
> @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ struct cma {
>  static struct cma cma_areas[MAX_CMA_AREAS];
>  static unsigned cma_area_count;
>  static DEFINE_MUTEX(cma_mutex);
> +unsigned long totalcma_pages __read_mostly;

It's not __read_mostly.

>  
>  phys_addr_t cma_get_base(struct cma *cma)
>  {
> @@ -288,6 +289,7 @@ int __init cma_declare_contiguous(phys_addr_t base,
>  	if (ret)
>  		goto err;
>  
> +	totalcma_pages += (size / PAGE_SIZE);
>  	pr_info("Reserved %ld MiB at %08lx\n", (unsigned long)size / SZ_1M,
>  		(unsigned long)base);
>  	return 0;
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index dd73f9a..c6165ac 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -5521,6 +5521,9 @@ void __init mem_init_print_info(const char *str)
>  	pr_info("Memory: %luK/%luK available "
>  	       "(%luK kernel code, %luK rwdata, %luK rodata, "
>  	       "%luK init, %luK bss, %luK reserved"
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CMA
> +		", %luK cma-reserved"
> +#endif
>  #ifdef	CONFIG_HIGHMEM
>  	       ", %luK highmem"
>  #endif
> @@ -5528,7 +5531,12 @@ void __init mem_init_print_info(const char *str)
>  	       nr_free_pages() << (PAGE_SHIFT-10), physpages << (PAGE_SHIFT-10),
>  	       codesize >> 10, datasize >> 10, rosize >> 10,
>  	       (init_data_size + init_code_size) >> 10, bss_size >> 10,
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CMA
> +	       (physpages - totalram_pages - totalcma_pages) << (PAGE_SHIFT-10),
> +	       totalcma_pages << (PAGE_SHIFT-10),
> +#else
>  	       (physpages - totalram_pages) << (PAGE_SHIFT-10),
> +#endif
>  #ifdef	CONFIG_HIGHMEM
>  	       totalhigh_pages << (PAGE_SHIFT-10),
>  #endif
> -- 
> 1.8.3.2
>

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