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mm: check if any page in a pageblock is reserved before marking it MIGRATE_RESERVE
authorArve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Wed, 25 May 2011 00:12:24 +0000 (17:12 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 25 May 2011 15:39:24 +0000 (08:39 -0700)
commitcaf7470225809f670e8adca7c9101f02682a215a
tree169f74df152fa593e5dc9adfff7f6f7e31061028
parent01786033271ced60ce853b98122c35cbe36d5ab0
mm: check if any page in a pageblock is reserved before marking it MIGRATE_RESERVE

This fixes a problem where the first pageblock got marked MIGRATE_RESERVE
even though it only had a few free pages.  eg, On current ARM port, The
kernel starts at offset 0x8000 to leave room for boot parameters, and the
memory is freed later.

This in turn caused no contiguous memory to be reserved and frequent
kswapd wakeups that emptied the caches to get more contiguous memory.

Unfortunatelly, ARM needs order-2 allocation for pgd (see
arm/mm/pgd.c#pgd_alloc()).  Therefore the issue is not minor nor easy
avoidable.

[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: added some explanation]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: add !pfn_valid_within() to check]
[minchan.kim@gmail.com: check end_pfn in pageblock_is_reserved]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c