1 From a4eb204a8029320c2dd748daf4f51fd48d337c3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
2 From: =?utf-8?q?Arve=20Hj=C3=B8nnev=C3=A5g?= <arve@android.com>
3 Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:27:31 -0700
4 Subject: [PATCH 056/134] mm: Check if any page in a pageblock is reserved before marking it MIGRATE_RESERVE
6 This fixes a problem where the first pageblock got marked MIGRATE_RESERVE even
7 though it only had a few free pages. This in turn caused no contiguous memory
8 to be reserved and frequent kswapd wakeups that emptied the caches to get more
11 mm/page_alloc.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
12 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
16 @@ -2570,6 +2570,20 @@ static inline unsigned long wait_table_b
17 #define LONG_ALIGN(x) (((x)+(sizeof(long))-1)&~((sizeof(long))-1))
20 + * Check if a pageblock contains reserved pages
22 +static int pageblock_is_reserved(unsigned long start_pfn)
24 + unsigned long end_pfn = start_pfn + pageblock_nr_pages;
27 + for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn++)
28 + if (PageReserved(pfn_to_page(pfn)))
34 * Mark a number of pageblocks as MIGRATE_RESERVE. The number
35 * of blocks reserved is based on zone->pages_min. The memory within the
36 * reserve will tend to store contiguous free pages. Setting min_free_kbytes
37 @@ -2598,7 +2612,7 @@ static void setup_zone_migrate_reserve(s
40 /* Blocks with reserved pages will never free, skip them. */
41 - if (PageReserved(page))
42 + if (pageblock_is_reserved(pfn))
45 block_migratetype = get_pageblock_migratetype(page);