Re: [PATCH 0/7] [RFC] Sizing zones and holes in an architecture independent manner V2
From: Mel Gorman
Date: Thu Apr 13 2006 - 13:30:30 EST
On (13/04/06 10:19), Luck, Tony didst pronounce:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 10:52:08AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > I didn't look at the test program output carefully enough! There was a
> > double counting of some holes because of a missing "if" - obvious in the
> > morning. Fix is this (applies on top of the debugging patch)
>
> Back to not booting with tiger_defconfig on Intel Tiger box :-(
>
> There are no lines like:
>
> On node 0 totalpages: 260725
> DMA zone: 129700 pages, LIFO batch:7
> Normal zone: 131025 pages, LIFO batch:7
>
> in the log ... which might explain the OOM later.
>
> Whole console log appended (The "Kill process 2" messages repeat
> forever).
>
> -Tony
>
>
> <SNIP>
> Dumping sorted node map
> entry 0: 0 1024 -> 130688
> entry 1: 0 130984 -> 131020
> entry 2: 0 393216 -> 524164
> entry 3: 0 524192 -> 524269
> Hole found index 1: 130688 -> 130984
> Hole found index 2: 131020 -> 262144
> Hole found index 2: 131020 -> 393216
Double counted a hole here, then went downhill. Does the following fix
it?
diff -rup -X /usr/src/patchset-0.5/bin//dontdiff linux-2.6.17-rc1-zonesizing-v6/mm/mem_init.c linux-2.6.17-rc1-107-debug/mm/mem_init.c
--- linux-2.6.17-rc1-zonesizing-v6/mm/mem_init.c 2006-04-13 10:30:50.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc1-107-debug/mm/mem_init.c 2006-04-13 18:00:39.000000000 +0100
@@ -753,17 +753,21 @@ unsigned long __init zone_absent_pages_i
start_pfn = early_node_map[i].start_pfn;
if (start_pfn > arch_zone_highest_possible_pfn[zone_type])
start_pfn = arch_zone_highest_possible_pfn[zone_type];
- if (prev_end_pfn > start_pfn) {
- printk("prev_end > start_pfn : %lu > %lu\n",
- prev_end_pfn,
- start_pfn);
- BUG();
- }
+ if (prev_end_pfn < arch_zone_lowest_possible_pfn[zone_type])
+ prev_end_pfn = arch_zone_lowest_possible_pfn[zone_type];
/* Update the hole size cound and move on */
- hole_pages += start_pfn - prev_end_pfn;
- printk("Hole found index %d: %lu -> %lu\n",
- i, prev_end_pfn, start_pfn);
+ if (start_pfn > arch_zone_lowest_possible_pfn[zone_type]) {
+ if (prev_end_pfn > start_pfn) {
+ printk("prev_end > start_pfn : %lu > %lu\n",
+ prev_end_pfn,
+ start_pfn);
+ BUG();
+ }
+ hole_pages += start_pfn - prev_end_pfn;
+ printk("Hole found index %d: %lu -> %lu\n",
+ i, prev_end_pfn, start_pfn);
+ }
prev_end_pfn = early_node_map[i].end_pfn;
}
-
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