linux-kernel - [PATCH] arm64: setup min_low

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Date:   Thu, 21 Mar 2019 12:21:25 +0800
From:   Miles Chen <miles.chen@...iatek.com>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
CC:     <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org>, <wsd_upstream@...iatek.com>,
        Miles Chen <miles.chen@...iatek.com>
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: setup min_low_pfn

When debugging with CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER, I noticed that the min_low_pfn
on arm64 is always zero and the page owner scanning has to start from zero.
We have to loop a while before we see the first valid pfn.
(see: read_page_owner())

Setup min_low_pfn to save some loops.

Before setting min_low_pfn:

[   21.265602] min_low_pfn=0, *ppos=0
Page allocated via order 0, mask 0x100cca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE)
PFN 262144 type Movable Block 512 type Movable Flags 0x8001e
referenced|uptodate|dirty|lru|swapbacked)
prep_new_page+0x13c/0x140
get_page_from_freelist+0x254/0x1068
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0xd4/0xcb8

After setting min_low_pfn:

[   11.025787] min_low_pfn=262144, *ppos=0
Page allocated via order 0, mask 0x100cca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE)
PFN 262144 type Movable Block 512 type Movable Flags 0x8001e
referenced|uptodate|dirty|lru|swapbacked)
prep_new_page+0x13c/0x140
get_page_from_freelist+0x254/0x1068
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0xd4/0xcb8
shmem_alloc_page+0x7c/0xa0
shmem_alloc_and_acct_page+0x124/0x1e8
shmem_getpage_gfp.isra.7+0x118/0x878
shmem_write_begin+0x38/0x68

Signed-off-by: Miles Chen <miles.chen@...iatek.com>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
index 6bc135042f5e..3dbd0c5ce780 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
@@ -440,6 +440,7 @@ void __init bootmem_init(void)
 	early_memtest(min << PAGE_SHIFT, max << PAGE_SHIFT);
 
 	max_pfn = max_low_pfn = max;
+	min_low_pfn = min;
 
 	arm64_numa_init();
 	/*
-- 
2.18.0