On 10/20/2012 01:29 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:

I'm travelling at the moment so apologies that I have not followed up on
this. My problem is still the same with the patch - it changes more
headers than is necessary and it is sparsemem specific. At minimum, try
the suggestion of 

if (!early_pfn_valid(pfn)) {
      pfn = ALIGN(pfn + MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES, MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES) - 1;
      continue;
}

Sorry I didn't catch this until v2...

Is that ALIGN() correct?  If pfn=3, then it would expand to:

(3+MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES+MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES-1) & ~(MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES-1)

You would end up skipping the current MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES area, and then
one _extra_ because ALIGN() aligns up, and you're adding
MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES too.  It doesn't matter unless you run in to a
!early_valid_pfn() in the middle of a MAX_ORDER area, I guess.

I think this would work, plus be a bit smaller:

	pfn = ALIGN(pfn + 1, MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES) - 1;

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