Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH] memcg: fix page_cgroup fatal error in FLATMEMv2

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Fri Jun 12 2009 - 11:15:29 EST


KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:21:52 +0300
> Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> In future,
>>> We stop to support FLATMEM (if no users) or rewrite codes for flatmem
>>> completely. But this will adds more messy codes and (big) overheads.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Looks good to me!
>>
>> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Do you want me to push this to Linus or will you take care of it?
>>
> Could you please push this one ? Typos pointed out by Li Zefan is fixed.
>
> Thank you all.
> -Kame
> ==
> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Now, SLAB is configured in very early stage and it can be used in
> init routine now.
>
> But replacing alloc_bootmem() in FLAT/DISCONTIGMEM's page_cgroup()
> initialization breaks the allocation, now.
> (Works well in SPARSEMEM case...it supports MEMORY_HOTPLUG and
> size of page_cgroup is in reasonable size (< 1 << MAX_ORDER.)
>
> This patch revive FLATMEM+memory cgroup by using alloc_bootmem.
>
> In future,
> We stop to support FLATMEM (if no users) or rewrite codes for flatmem
> completely.But this will adds more messy codes and overheads.
>
> Changelog: v1->v2
> - fixed typos.
>
> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I see you've responded already, Thanks!

The diff is a bit confusing, was Pekka's patch already integrated, in my version
of mmotm, I don't see the alloc_pages_node() change in my source base.

But overall I agree with the change.


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Balbir
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