Re: quicklists confuse meminfo

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Mar 09 2008 - 15:32:08 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> i.e. the patch below should do the trick.
>
> (it's still work in progress but it seems to boot just fine)

updated patch below - Thomas found a bug in the alloc-failure cleanup
path. I shouldnt hack late Sunday night :)

Ingo

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Subject: x86: patches/remove-quicklists.patch
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Mar 09 20:04:32 CET 2008

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/mm/pgtable_32.c | 14 +++++++++-----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Index: linux-x86.q/arch/x86/mm/pgtable_32.c
===================================================================
--- linux-x86.q.orig/arch/x86/mm/pgtable_32.c
+++ linux-x86.q/arch/x86/mm/pgtable_32.c
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
-#include <linux/quicklist.h>

#include <asm/system.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
@@ -338,12 +337,17 @@ static void pgd_mop_up_pmds(struct mm_st

pgd_t *pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
- pgd_t *pgd = quicklist_alloc(0, GFP_KERNEL, pgd_ctor);
+ pgd_t *pgd;
+
+ pgd = (void *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
+ if (pgd)
+ pgd_ctor(pgd);

mm->pgd = pgd; /* so that alloc_pd can use it */

if (pgd && !pgd_prepopulate_pmd(mm, pgd)) {
- quicklist_free(0, pgd_dtor, pgd);
+ pgd_dtor(pgd);
+ free_page((unsigned long)pgd);
pgd = NULL;
}

@@ -353,12 +357,12 @@ pgd_t *pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm)
void pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd)
{
pgd_mop_up_pmds(mm, pgd);
- quicklist_free(0, pgd_dtor, pgd);
+ pgd_dtor(pgd);
+ free_page((unsigned long)pgd);
}

void check_pgt_cache(void)
{
- quicklist_trim(0, pgd_dtor, 25, 16);
}

void __pte_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct page *pte)
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