Add information to struct compact_control to indicate that the allocator
would really like to clear out this specific part of memory, used by for
example CMA.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/internal.h | 1 +
mm/page_alloc.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 3cf20ab3ca01..78492d9815b4 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -206,6 +206,7 @@ struct compact_control {
bool whole_zone; /* Whole zone should/has been scanned */
bool contended; /* Signal lock or sched contention */
bool rescan; /* Rescanning the same pageblock */
+ bool alloc_contig; /* alloc_contig_range allocation */
};
/*
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 3c4eb750a199..a36736812596 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -8402,6 +8402,7 @@ int alloc_contig_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
.ignore_skip_hint = true,
.no_set_skip_hint = true,
.gfp_mask = current_gfp_context(gfp_mask),
+ .alloc_contig = true,
};
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc.migratepages);
--
2.24.1
