linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: use managed_zone() for more exact check in zone iteration

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Message-ID: <20181116170755.GN14706@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Fri, 16 Nov 2018 18:07:55 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>
Cc:     osalvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: use managed_zone() for more exact check in zone
 iteration

On Fri 16-11-18 15:58:28, Wei Yang wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 12:26:03PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >On Fri 16-11-18 12:05:04, osalvador wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 10:57 +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >[...]
> >> > E.g. memory hotplug decreases both managed and present counters. I
> >> > am actually not sure that is 100% correct (put on my TODO list to
> >> > check). There is no consistency in that regards.
> >> 
> >> We can only offline non-reserved pages (so, managed pages).
> >
> >Yes
> >
> >> Since present pages holds reserved_pages + managed_pages, decreasing
> >> both should be fine unless I am mistaken.
> >
> >Well, present_pages is defined as "physical pages existing within the zone"
> >and those pages are still existing but they are offline. But as I've
> >said I have to think about it some more
> 
> I may not catch up with your discussions, while I'd like to share what I
> learnt.
> 
> online_pages()
>     online_pages_range()
>     zone->present_pages += onlined_pages;
> 
> __offline_pages()
>     adjust_managed_page_count()
>     zone->present_pages -= offlined_pages;
> 
> The two counters: present_pages & managed_pages would be adjusted during
> online/offline.
> 
> While I am not sure when *reserved_pages* would be adjusted. Will we add
> this hot-added memory into memblock.reserved? and allocate memory by
> memblock_alloc() after system bootup?

This is not really related to this patch. I have only mentioned the
memory hotplug as an example. I would rather focus on the change itself
so let's not get too off topic here.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs