Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] cma: fix watermark checking
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2012-09-19 19:51:03
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:29:34 +0200 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [off-list ref] wrote:
* Add ALLOC_CMA alloc flag and pass it to [__]zone_watermark_ok() (from Minchan Kim).
What is its meaning and why was it added.
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* During watermark check decrease available free pages number by free CMA pages number if necessary (unmovable allocations cannot use pages from CMA areas). ...--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h@@ -231,6 +231,21 @@ enum zone_watermarks { #define low_wmark_pages(z) (z->watermark[WMARK_LOW]) #define high_wmark_pages(z) (z->watermark[WMARK_HIGH]) +/* The ALLOC_WMARK bits are used as an index to zone->watermark */ +#define ALLOC_WMARK_MIN WMARK_MIN +#define ALLOC_WMARK_LOW WMARK_LOW +#define ALLOC_WMARK_HIGH WMARK_HIGH +#define ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS 0x04 /* don't check watermarks at all */ + +/* Mask to get the watermark bits */ +#define ALLOC_WMARK_MASK (ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS-1) + +#define ALLOC_HARDER 0x10 /* try to alloc harder */ +#define ALLOC_HIGH 0x20 /* __GFP_HIGH set */ +#define ALLOC_CPUSET 0x40 /* check for correct cpuset */ +
Unneeded newline.
+#define ALLOC_CMA 0x80
All the other enumerations were documented. ALLOC_CMA was left undocumented, despite sorely needing documentation.
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struct per_cpu_pages { int count; /* number of pages in the list */ int high; /* high watermark, emptying needed */diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index 4b902aa..36d79ea 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c@@ -868,6 +868,7 @@ unsigned long try_to_compact_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct zoneref *z; struct zone *zone; int rc = COMPACT_SKIPPED; + int alloc_flags = 0; /* * Check whether it is worth even starting compaction. The order check is@@ -879,6 +880,10 @@ unsigned long try_to_compact_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, count_vm_event(COMPACTSTALL); +#ifdef CONFIG_CMA + if (allocflags_to_migratetype(gfp_mask) == MIGRATE_MOVABLE) + alloc_flags |= ALLOC_CMA;
I find this rather obscure. What is the significance of MIGRATE_MOVABLE here? If it had been : if (allocflags_to_migratetype(gfp_mask) == MIGRATE_CMA) : alloc_flags |= ALLOC_CMA; then I'd have read straight past it. But it's unclear what's happening here. If we didn't have to resort to telepathy to understand the meaning of ALLOC_CMA, this wouldn't be so hard.
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+#endif /* Compact each zone in the list */ for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist, high_zoneidx, nodemask) {@@ -889,7 +894,8 @@ unsigned long try_to_compact_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, rc = max(status, rc); /* If a normal allocation would succeed, stop compacting */ - if (zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, low_wmark_pages(zone), 0, 0)) + if (zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, low_wmark_pages(zone), 0, + alloc_flags)) break; }diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 287f79d..5985cbf 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c@@ -1519,19 +1519,6 @@ failed: return NULL; } -/* The ALLOC_WMARK bits are used as an index to zone->watermark */ -#define ALLOC_WMARK_MIN WMARK_MIN -#define ALLOC_WMARK_LOW WMARK_LOW -#define ALLOC_WMARK_HIGH WMARK_HIGH -#define ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS 0x04 /* don't check watermarks at all */ - -/* Mask to get the watermark bits */ -#define ALLOC_WMARK_MASK (ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS-1) - -#define ALLOC_HARDER 0x10 /* try to alloc harder */ -#define ALLOC_HIGH 0x20 /* __GFP_HIGH set */ -#define ALLOC_CPUSET 0x40 /* check for correct cpuset */
Perhaps mm/internal.h wouild have been a better place to move these.
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#ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC static struct {@@ -1626,7 +1613,10 @@ static bool __zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, int order, unsigned long mark, min -= min / 2; if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_HARDER) min -= min / 4; - +#ifdef CONFIG_CMA + if (!(alloc_flags & ALLOC_CMA)) + free_pages -= zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES);
Again, the negated test looks weird or just wrong. Please do something to make this code more understandable. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>