linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: skip if required_kernelcore is larger than totalpages

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Message-ID: <56212c99.e615370a.1815a.7944@mx.google.com>
Date:	Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:58:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Yasuaki Ishimatsu <yasu.isimatu@...il.com>
To:	Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	"David Rientjes" <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>, <zhongjiang@...wei.com>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: skip if required_kernelcore is larger than
 totalpages


On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:37:17 +0800
Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com> wrote:

> On 2015/10/9 23:41, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 10:21:05 +0800
> > Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> If kernelcore was not specified, or the kernelcore size is zero
> >> (required_movablecore >= totalpages), or the kernelcore size is larger
> > 
> > Why does required_movablecore become larger than totalpages, when the
> > kernelcore size is zero? I read the code but I could not find that you
> > mention.
> > 
> 
> If user only set boot option movablecore, and the value is larger than
> totalpages, the calculation of kernelcore is zero, but we can't fill
> the zone only with kernelcore, so skip it.

Thank you for the explantion. Your patch looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>

Thanks,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu

> 
> I have send a patch before this patch.
> "fix overflow in find_zone_movable_pfns_for_nodes()"
> 		...
>  		required_movablecore =
>  			roundup(required_movablecore, MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES);
> +		required_movablecore = min(totalpages, required_movablecore);
>  		corepages = totalpages - required_movablecore;
> 		...
> 
> Thanks,
> Xishi Qiu
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Yasuaki Ishimatsu
> > 
> >> than totalpages, there is no ZONE_MOVABLE. We should fill the zone
> >> with both kernel memory and movable memory.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>
> >> ---
> >>  mm/page_alloc.c | 7 +++++--
> >>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> >> index af3c9bd..6a6da0d 100644
> >> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> >> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> >> @@ -5674,8 +5674,11 @@ static void __init find_zone_movable_pfns_for_nodes(void)
> >>  		required_kernelcore = max(required_kernelcore, corepages);
> >>  	}
> >>  
> >> -	/* If kernelcore was not specified, there is no ZONE_MOVABLE */
> >> -	if (!required_kernelcore)
> >> +	/*
> >> +	 * If kernelcore was not specified or kernelcore size is larger
> >> +	 * than totalpages, there is no ZONE_MOVABLE.
> >> +	 */
> >> +	if (!required_kernelcore || required_kernelcore >= totalpages)
> >>  		goto out;
> >>  
> >>  	/* usable_startpfn is the lowest possible pfn ZONE_MOVABLE can be at */
> >> -- 
> >> 2.0.0
> >>
> >>
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> 
> 
> 
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