linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/6] mm/mm_init.c: remove meaningless calculation of zone->managed_pages in free_area_init

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Message-ID: <20240318142138.783350-5-bhe@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 22:21:36 +0800
From: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To: linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	rppt@...nel.org,
	Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/6] mm/mm_init.c: remove meaningless calculation of zone->managed_pages in free_area_init_core()

Currently, in free_area_init_core(), when initialize zone's field, a
rough value is set to zone->managed_pages. That value is calculated by
(zone->present_pages - memmap_pages).

In the meantime, add the value to nr_all_pages and nr_kernel_pages which
represent all free pages of system (only low memory or including HIGHMEM
memory separately). Both of them are gonna be used in
alloc_large_system_hash().

However, the rough calculation and setting of zone->managed_pages is
meaningless because
  a) memmap pages are allocated on units of node in sparse_init() or
     alloc_node_mem_map(pgdat); The simple (zone->present_pages -
     memmap_pages) is too rough to make sense for zone;
  b) the set zone->managed_pages will be zeroed out and reset with
     acutal value in mem_init() via memblock_free_all(). Before the
     resetting, no buddy allocation request is issued.

Here, remove the meaningless and complicated calculation of
(zone->present_pages - memmap_pages), directly set zone->present_pages to
zone->managed_pages. It will be adjusted in mem_init().

And also remove the assignment of nr_all_pages and nr_kernel_pages in
free_area_init_core(). Instead, call the newly added calc_nr_kernel_pages()
to count up all free but not reserved memory in memblock and assign to
nr_all_pages and nr_kernel_pages. The counting excludes memmap_pages,
and other kernel used data, which is more accurate than old way and
simpler, and can also cover the ppc required arch_reserved_kernel_pages()
case.

Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
---
 mm/mm_init.c | 38 ++++++--------------------------------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mm_init.c b/mm/mm_init.c
index c57a7fc97a16..55a2b886b7a6 100644
--- a/mm/mm_init.c
+++ b/mm/mm_init.c
@@ -1584,41 +1584,14 @@ static void __init free_area_init_core(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
 
 	for (j = 0; j < MAX_NR_ZONES; j++) {
 		struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + j;
-		unsigned long size, freesize, memmap_pages;
-
-		size = zone->spanned_pages;
-		freesize = zone->present_pages;
-
-		/*
-		 * Adjust freesize so that it accounts for how much memory
-		 * is used by this zone for memmap. This affects the watermark
-		 * and per-cpu initialisations
-		 */
-		memmap_pages = calc_memmap_size(size, freesize);
-		if (!is_highmem_idx(j)) {
-			if (freesize >= memmap_pages) {
-				freesize -= memmap_pages;
-				if (memmap_pages)
-					pr_debug("  %s zone: %lu pages used for memmap\n",
-						 zone_names[j], memmap_pages);
-			} else
-				pr_warn("  %s zone: %lu memmap pages exceeds freesize %lu\n",
-					zone_names[j], memmap_pages, freesize);
-		}
-
-		if (!is_highmem_idx(j))
-			nr_kernel_pages += freesize;
-		/* Charge for highmem memmap if there are enough kernel pages */
-		else if (nr_kernel_pages > memmap_pages * 2)
-			nr_kernel_pages -= memmap_pages;
-		nr_all_pages += freesize;
+		unsigned long size = zone->spanned_pages;
 
 		/*
-		 * Set an approximate value for lowmem here, it will be adjusted
-		 * when the bootmem allocator frees pages into the buddy system.
-		 * And all highmem pages will be managed by the buddy system.
+		 * Set the zone->managed_pages as zone->present_pages roughly, it
+		 * be zeroed out and reset when memblock allocator frees pages into
+		 * buddy system.
 		 */
-		zone_init_internals(zone, j, nid, freesize);
+		zone_init_internals(zone, j, nid, zone->present_pages);
 
 		if (!size)
 			continue;
@@ -1915,6 +1888,7 @@ void __init free_area_init(unsigned long *max_zone_pfn)
 		check_for_memory(pgdat);
 	}
 
+	calc_nr_kernel_pages();
 	memmap_init();
 
 	/* disable hash distribution for systems with a single node */
-- 
2.41.0