linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 08/10] mm/memory_hotplug: Don't check for "all holes" in shrink_zone

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Message-Id: <20191001144011.3801-9-david@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue,  1 Oct 2019 16:40:09 +0200
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Wei Yang <richardw.yang@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 08/10] mm/memory_hotplug: Don't check for "all holes" in shrink_zone_span()

If we have holes, the holes will automatically get detected and removed
once we remove the next bigger/smaller section. The extra checks can
go.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@...ux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
---
 mm/memory_hotplug.c | 34 +++++++---------------------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 273833612774..22b3623768c8 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -393,6 +393,9 @@ static void shrink_zone_span(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
 		if (pfn) {
 			zone->zone_start_pfn = pfn;
 			zone->spanned_pages = zone_end_pfn - pfn;
+		} else {
+			zone->zone_start_pfn = 0;
+			zone->spanned_pages = 0;
 		}
 	} else if (zone_end_pfn == end_pfn) {
 		/*
@@ -405,34 +408,11 @@ static void shrink_zone_span(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
 					       start_pfn);
 		if (pfn)
 			zone->spanned_pages = pfn - zone_start_pfn + 1;
+		else {
+			zone->zone_start_pfn = 0;
+			zone->spanned_pages = 0;
+		}
 	}
-
-	/*
-	 * The section is not biggest or smallest mem_section in the zone, it
-	 * only creates a hole in the zone. So in this case, we need not
-	 * change the zone. But perhaps, the zone has only hole data. Thus
-	 * it check the zone has only hole or not.
-	 */
-	pfn = zone_start_pfn;
-	for (; pfn < zone_end_pfn; pfn += PAGES_PER_SUBSECTION) {
-		if (unlikely(!pfn_to_online_page(pfn)))
-			continue;
-
-		if (page_zone(pfn_to_page(pfn)) != zone)
-			continue;
-
-		/* Skip range to be removed */
-		if (pfn >= start_pfn && pfn < end_pfn)
-			continue;
-
-		/* If we find valid section, we have nothing to do */
-		zone_span_writeunlock(zone);
-		return;
-	}
-
-	/* The zone has no valid section */
-	zone->zone_start_pfn = 0;
-	zone->spanned_pages = 0;
 	zone_span_writeunlock(zone);
 }
 
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2.21.0