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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.

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