[patch 44/73] quicklists: Only consider memory that can be usedwith GFP_KERNEL

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Feb 06 2008 - 19:16:12 EST


2.6.23-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>

patch 96990a4ae979df9e235d01097d6175759331e88c in mainline.

Quicklists calculates the size of the quicklists based on the number of
free pages. This must be the number of free pages that can be allocated
with GFP_KERNEL. node_page_state() includes the pages in ZONE_HIGHMEM and
ZONE_MOVABLE which may lead the quicklists to become too large causing OOM.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
mm/quicklist.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/quicklist.c
+++ b/mm/quicklist.c
@@ -26,9 +26,17 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct quicklist, quickli
static unsigned long max_pages(unsigned long min_pages)
{
unsigned long node_free_pages, max;
+ struct zone *zones = NODE_DATA(numa_node_id())->node_zones;
+
+ node_free_pages =
+#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
+ zone_page_state(&zones[ZONE_DMA], NR_FREE_PAGES) +
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
+ zone_page_state(&zones[ZONE_DMA32], NR_FREE_PAGES) +
+#endif
+ zone_page_state(&zones[ZONE_NORMAL], NR_FREE_PAGES);

- node_free_pages = node_page_state(numa_node_id(),
- NR_FREE_PAGES);
max = node_free_pages / FRACTION_OF_NODE_MEM;
return max(max, min_pages);
}

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