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author | Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com> | 2012-10-09 01:33:06 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-10-09 09:22:54 +0200 |
commit | 7f1290f2f2a4d2c3f1b7ce8e87256e052ca23125 (patch) | |
tree | 10328fcb468647ba678e022911d5c2005080f309 /arch | |
parent | mm: enable CONFIG_COMPACTION by default (diff) | |
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mm: fix-up zone present pages
I think zone->present_pages indicates pages that buddy system can management,
it should be:
zone->present_pages = spanned pages - absent pages - bootmem pages,
but is now:
zone->present_pages = spanned pages - absent pages - memmap pages.
spanned pages: total size, including holes.
absent pages: holes.
bootmem pages: pages used in system boot, managed by bootmem allocator.
memmap pages: pages used by page structs.
This may cause zone->present_pages less than it should be. For example,
numa node 1 has ZONE_NORMAL and ZONE_MOVABLE, it's memmap and other
bootmem will be allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE, so ZONE_NORMAL's
present_pages should be spanned pages - absent pages, but now it also
minus memmap pages(free_area_init_core), which are actually allocated from
ZONE_MOVABLE. When offlining all memory of a zone, this will cause
zone->present_pages less than 0, because present_pages is unsigned long
type, it is actually a very large integer, it indirectly caused
zone->watermark[WMARK_MIN] becomes a large
integer(setup_per_zone_wmarks()), than cause totalreserve_pages become a
large integer(calculate_totalreserve_pages()), and finally cause memory
allocating failure when fork process(__vm_enough_memory()).
[root@localhost ~]# dmesg
-bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory
I think the bug described in
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=134502182714186&w=2
is also caused by wrong zone present pages.
This patch intends to fix-up zone->present_pages when memory are freed to
buddy system on x86_64 and IA64 platforms.
Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Reported-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/ia64/mm/init.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/mm/init.c b/arch/ia64/mm/init.c index 082e383c1b6f..acd5b68e8871 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/mm/init.c +++ b/arch/ia64/mm/init.c @@ -637,6 +637,7 @@ mem_init (void) high_memory = __va(max_low_pfn * PAGE_SIZE); + reset_zone_present_pages(); for_each_online_pgdat(pgdat) if (pgdat->bdata->node_bootmem_map) totalram_pages += free_all_bootmem_node(pgdat); |