Re: [PATCH] mm: use managed_zone() for more exact check in zone iteration

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On Thu 15-11-18 13:37:35, Andrew Morton wrote:
[...]
> Worse, the situations in which managed_zone() != populated_zone() are
> rare(?), so it will take a long time for problems to be discovered, I
> expect.

We would basically have to deplete the whole zone by the bootmem
allocator or pull out all pages from the page allocator. E.g. memory
hotplug decreases both managed and present counters. I am actually not
sure that is 100% correct (put on my TODO list to check). There is no
consistency in that regards.

That being said, I will review the patch (today hopefully) but
fundamentally most users should indeed care about managed pages when
iterating zones with memory. There should be a good reason why they
might want to look at reserved pages.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs




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