From 9feedc9d831e18ae6d0d15aa562e5e46ba53647b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiang Liu Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:52:12 -0800 Subject: mm: introduce new field "managed_pages" to struct zone Currently a zone's present_pages is calcuated as below, which is inaccurate and may cause trouble to memory hotplug. spanned_pages - absent_pages - memmap_pages - dma_reserve. During fixing bugs caused by inaccurate zone->present_pages, we found zone->present_pages has been abused. The field zone->present_pages may have different meanings in different contexts: 1) pages existing in a zone. 2) pages managed by the buddy system. For more discussions about the issue, please refer to: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/5/866 https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1346751/ This patchset tries to introduce a new field named "managed_pages" to struct zone, which counts "pages managed by the buddy system". And revert zone->present_pages to count "physical pages existing in a zone", which also keep in consistence with pgdat->node_present_pages. We will set an initial value for zone->managed_pages in function free_area_init_core() and will adjust it later if the initial value is inaccurate. For DMA/normal zones, the initial value is set to: (spanned_pages - absent_pages - memmap_pages - dma_reserve) Later zone->managed_pages will be adjusted to the accurate value when the bootmem allocator frees all free pages to the buddy system in function free_all_bootmem_node() and free_all_bootmem(). The bootmem allocator doesn't touch highmem pages, so highmem zones' managed_pages is set to the accurate value "spanned_pages - absent_pages" in function free_area_init_core() and won't be updated anymore. This patch also adds a new field "managed_pages" to /proc/zoneinfo and sysrq showmem. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: small comment tweaks] Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu Cc: Wen Congyang Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Maciej Rutecki Tested-by: Chris Clayton Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Jianguo Wu Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/vmstat.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/vmstat.c') diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index 9a4a522c0b0..df14808f0a3 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -994,14 +994,16 @@ static void zoneinfo_show_print(struct seq_file *m, pg_data_t *pgdat, "\n high %lu" "\n scanned %lu" "\n spanned %lu" - "\n present %lu", + "\n present %lu" + "\n managed %lu", zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES), min_wmark_pages(zone), low_wmark_pages(zone), high_wmark_pages(zone), zone->pages_scanned, zone->spanned_pages, - zone->present_pages); + zone->present_pages, + zone->managed_pages); for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS; i++) seq_printf(m, "\n %-12s %lu", vmstat_text[i], -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258