From 7f1290f2f2a4d2c3f1b7ce8e87256e052ca23125 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jianguo Wu Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 16:33:06 -0700 Subject: mm: fix-up zone present pages I think zone->present_pages indicates pages that buddy system can management, it should be: zone->present_pages = spanned pages - absent pages - bootmem pages, but is now: zone->present_pages = spanned pages - absent pages - memmap pages. spanned pages: total size, including holes. absent pages: holes. bootmem pages: pages used in system boot, managed by bootmem allocator. memmap pages: pages used by page structs. This may cause zone->present_pages less than it should be. For example, numa node 1 has ZONE_NORMAL and ZONE_MOVABLE, it's memmap and other bootmem will be allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE, so ZONE_NORMAL's present_pages should be spanned pages - absent pages, but now it also minus memmap pages(free_area_init_core), which are actually allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE. When offlining all memory of a zone, this will cause zone->present_pages less than 0, because present_pages is unsigned long type, it is actually a very large integer, it indirectly caused zone->watermark[WMARK_MIN] becomes a large integer(setup_per_zone_wmarks()), than cause totalreserve_pages become a large integer(calculate_totalreserve_pages()), and finally cause memory allocating failure when fork process(__vm_enough_memory()). [root@localhost ~]# dmesg -bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory I think the bug described in http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=134502182714186&w=2 is also caused by wrong zone present pages. This patch intends to fix-up zone->present_pages when memory are freed to buddy system on x86_64 and IA64 platforms. Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu Reported-by: Petr Tesarik Tested-by: Petr Tesarik Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Yinghai Lu Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mm.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index bcaab4e6fe9..fa068040273 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -1684,5 +1684,9 @@ static inline unsigned int debug_guardpage_minorder(void) { return 0; } static inline bool page_is_guard(struct page *page) { return false; } #endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC */ +extern void reset_zone_present_pages(void); +extern void fixup_zone_present_pages(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn, + unsigned long end_pfn); + #endif /* __KERNEL__ */ #endif /* _LINUX_MM_H */ -- cgit v1.2.3