On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 18:46:34 +0800 Hongbo Zhong [off-list ref] wrote:

From: Zhong Hongbo <redacted>

Since the commit 01cefaef40c4 ("mm: provide more accurate estimation
of pages occupied by memmap") allocate the pages from lowmem for the
highmem zones' memmap. So It is not need to reserver the memmap's for
the highmem.

Looks right.

A 2G DDR3 for the arm platform:
On node 0 totalpages: 524288
free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat 80ccd380, node_mem_map 80d38000
  DMA zone: 3568 pages used for memmap
  DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
  DMA zone: 456704 pages, LIFO batch:31
  HighMem zone: 528 pages used for memmap
  HighMem zone: 67584 pages, LIFO batch:15

On node 0 totalpages: 524288
free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat 80cd6f40, node_mem_map 80d42000
  DMA zone: 3568 pages used for memmap
  DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
  DMA zone: 456704 pages, LIFO batch:31
  HighMem zone: 67584 pages, LIFO batch:15

So nothing changed.  Maybe it would have if the machine had more
highmem.

I'm trying to work out what effect this patch actually has.  AFAICT it
provides more accurate values for zone->min_unmapped_pages and
zone->min_slab_pages on NUMA.  Anything else?