Re: [PATCH -mm v2] mm: have order > 0 compaction start off whereit left

[Minchan Kim]

On 07/03/2012 09:57 AM, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On 07/02/2012 01:42 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 14:35 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:24:25 -0400 Rik van Riel<riel@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> @@ -463,6 +474,8 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct zone *zone,
>>>>>>              */
>>>>>>             if (isolated)
>>>>>>                     high_pfn = max(high_pfn, pfn);
>>>>>> +          if (cc->order>   0)
>>>>>> +                  zone->compact_cached_free_pfn = high_pfn;
>>>>>
>>>>> Is high_pfn guaranteed to be aligned to pageblock_nr_pages here?  I
>>>>> assume so, if lots of code in other places is correct but it's
>>>>> unobvious from reading this function.
>>>>
>>>> Reading the code a few more times, I believe that it is
>>>> indeed aligned to pageblock size.
>>>
>>> I'll slip this into -next for a while.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> a/mm/compaction.c~isolate_freepages-check-that-high_pfn-is-aligned-as-expected
>>>
>>> +++ a/mm/compaction.c
>>> @@ -456,6 +456,7 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct zon
>>>                  }
>>>                  spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
>>>
>>> +               WARN_ON_ONCE(high_pfn&  (pageblock_nr_pages - 1));
>>>                  /*
>>>                   * Record the highest PFN we isolated pages from.
>>> When next
>>>                   * looking for free pages, the search will restart
>>> here as
>>
>> I've triggered the following with today's -next:
> 
> I've been staring at the migrate code for most of the afternoon,
> and am not sure how this is triggered.
> 
> At this point, I'm going to focus my attention on addressing
> Minchan's comments on my code, and hoping someone who is more
> familiar with the migrate code knows how high_pfn ends up
> being not pageblock_nr_pages aligned...
> 


migrate_pfn does not necessarily start aligned to a pageblock.

        /* Setup to move all movable pages to the end of the zone */
        cc->migrate_pfn = zone->zone_start_pfn;

In isolate_freepages, high_pfn = low_pfn = cc->migrate_pfn + pageblock_nr_pages /* migrate_pfn doesn't aligned to a pageblock */

-- 
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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