Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: Clean up check_for_memory
From: Oscar Salvador <hidden>
Date: 2018-08-31 12:24:07
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From: Oscar Salvador <hidden>
Date: 2018-08-31 12:24:07
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 01:55:29AM +0000, Pasha Tatashin wrote:
I would re-write the above function like this:
static void check_for_memory(pg_data_t *pgdat, int nid)
{
enum zone_type zone_type;
for (zone_type = 0; zone_type < ZONE_MOVABLE; zone_type++) {
if (populated_zone(&pgdat->node_zones[zone_type])) {
node_set_state(nid, zone_type <= ZONE_NORMAL ?
N_NORMAL_MEMORY: N_HIGH_MEMORY);
break;
}
}
}Hi Pavel, the above would not work fine. You set either N_NORMAL_MEMORY or N_HIGH_MEMORY, but a node can have both types of memory at the same time (on CONFIG_HIGHMEM systems). N_HIGH_MEMORY stands for regular or high memory while N_NORMAL_MEMORY stands only for regular memory, that is why we set it only in case the zone is <= ZONE_NORMAL.
zone_type <= ZONE_MOVABLE - 1 is the same as: zone_type < ZONE_MOVABLE
This makes sense. -- Oscar Salvador SUSE L3