Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] mm: support reporting free page blocks

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Aug 10 2017 - 03:05:26 EST


On Tue 08-08-17 14:34:25, Wei Wang wrote:
> On 08/08/2017 02:12 PM, Wei Wang wrote:
> >On 08/03/2017 05:11 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >>On Thu 03-08-17 14:38:18, Wei Wang wrote:
> >>This is just too ugly and wrong actually. Never provide struct page
> >>pointers outside of the zone->lock. What I've had in mind was to simply
> >>walk free lists of the suitable order and call the callback for each
> >>one.
> >>Something as simple as
> >>
> >> for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) {
> >> struct zone *zone = &pgdat->node_zones[i];
> >>
> >> if (!populated_zone(zone))
> >> continue;
> >
> >Can we directly use for_each_populated_zone(zone) here?

yes, my example couldn't because I was still assuming per-node API

> >>spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
> >> for (order = min_order; order < MAX_ORDER; ++order) {
> >
> >
> >This appears to be covered by for_each_migratetype_order(order, mt) below.

yes but
#define for_each_migratetype_order(order, type) \
for (order = 0; order < MAX_ORDER; order++) \
for (type = 0; type < MIGRATE_TYPES; type++)

so you would have to skip orders < min_order
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs