On 2/17/2010 5:03 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:45:54 -0800
Michael Bohan<mbohan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As a temporary fix, I added some code to move_freepages_block() that
inspects whether the range exceeds our first memory bank -- returning 0
if it does. This is not a clean solution, since it requires exporting
the ARM specific meminfo structure to extract the bank information.
Hmm, my first impression is...
- Using FLATMEM, memmap is created for the number of pages and memmap should
not have aligned size.
- Using SPARSEMEM, memmap is created for aligned number of pages.
Then, the range [zone->start_pfn ... zone->start_pfn + zone->spanned_pages]
should be checked always.
803 static int move_freepages_block(struct zone *zone, struct page *page,
804 int migratetype)
805 {
816 if (start_pfn< zone->zone_start_pfn)
817 start_page = page;
818 if (end_pfn>= zone->zone_start_pfn + zone->spanned_pages)
819 return 0;
820
821 return move_freepages(zone, start_page, end_page, migratetype);
822 }
"(end_pfn>= zone->zone_start_pfn + zone->spanned_pages)" is checked.
What zone->spanned_pages is set ? The zone's range is
[zone->start_pfn ... zone->start_pfn+zone->spanned_pages], so this
area should have initialized memmap. I wonder zone->spanned_pages is too big.
In the block of code above running on my target, the zone_start_pfn is
is 0x200 and the spanned_pages is 0x44100. This is consistent with the
values shown from the zoneinfo file below. It is also consistent with
my memory map:
bank0:
start: 0x00200000
size: 0x07B00000
bank1:
start: 0x40000000
size: 0x04300000
Thus, spanned_pages here is the highest address reached minus the start
address of the lowest bank (eg. 0x40000000 + 0x04300000 - 0x00200000).
Both of these banks exist in the same zone. This means that the check
in move_freepages_block() will never be satisfied for cases that overlap
with the prohibited pfns, since the zone spans invalid pfns. Should
each bank be associated with its own zone?
Could you check ? (maybe /proc/zoneinfo can show it.)
Dump of /proc/zoneinfo or dmesg will be helpful.
Here is what I believe to be the relevant pieces from the kernel log:
<7>[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 48640
<7>[ 0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat 804875bc,
node_mem_map 805af000
<7>[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 2178 pages used for memmap
<7>[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
<7>[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 46462 pages, LIFO batch:15
<4>[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping
on. Total pages: 46462
# cat /proc/zoneinfo
Node 0, zone Normal
pages free 678
min 431
low 538
high 646
scanned 0 (aa: 0 ia: 0 af: 0 if: 0)
spanned 278784
present 46462
mem_notify_status 0
nr_free_pages 678
nr_inactive_anon 8494
nr_active_anon 8474
nr_inactive_file 3234
nr_active_file 2653
nr_unevictable 71
nr_mlock 0
nr_anon_pages 12488
nr_mapped 7237
nr_file_pages 10446
nr_dirty 0
nr_writeback 0
nr_slab_reclaimable 293
nr_slab_unreclaimable 942
nr_page_table_pages 1365
nr_unstable 0
nr_bounce 0
nr_vmscan_write 0
nr_writeback_temp 0
protection: (0, 0)
pagesets
cpu: 0
count: 42
high: 90
batch: 15
all_unreclaimable: 0
prev_priority: 12
start_pfn: 512
inactive_ratio: 1
Thanks,
Michael
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