Re: [PATCH 2/9] mm: alloc_contig_freed_pages() added

From: Michal Nazarewicz
Date: Tue Oct 18 2011 - 14:00:39 EST


On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:48:46 -0700, Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 10:26 -0700, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
> You can do this in a more general fashion by checking the
> zone boundaries and resolving the pfn->page every MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES.
> That will not be SPARSEMEM specific.

I've tried doing stuff that way but it ended up with much more code.

I guess instead of:

+static inline bool zone_pfn_same_memmap(unsigned long pfn1, unsigned long pfn2)
+{
+ return pfn_to_section_nr(pfn1) == pfn_to_section_nr(pfn2);
+}

You could do:

static inline bool zone_pfn_same_maxorder(unsigned long pfn1, unsigned long pfn2)
{
unsigned long mask = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES-1;
return (pfn1 & mask) == (pfn2 & mask);
}

I think that works. Should be the same code you have now, basically.

Makes sense. It'd require calling pfn_to_page() every MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES even
in memory models that have linear mapping of struct page, but I guess that's
not that bad.

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