Re: [PATCH] mm: cma: fix accounting of CMA pages placed in highmemory

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Mon Feb 04 2013 - 18:34:36 EST


On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 11:27:05AM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> The total number of low memory pages is determined as
> totalram_pages - totalhigh_pages, so without this patch all CMA
> pageblocks placed in highmem were accounted to low memory.

So what's the end user effect? With the effect, we have to decide
routing it on stable.

>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/page_alloc.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index f5bab0a..6415d93 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -773,6 +773,10 @@ void __init init_cma_reserved_pageblock(struct page *page)
> set_pageblock_migratetype(page, MIGRATE_CMA);
> __free_pages(page, pageblock_order);
> totalram_pages += pageblock_nr_pages;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM

We don't need #ifdef/#endif.

> + if (PageHighMem(page))
> + totalhigh_pages += pageblock_nr_pages;
> +#endif
> }
> #endif
>
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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