Re: [PATCH] mm: fix a regression with HIGHMEM introduced by changeset 7f1290f2f2a4d

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On 11/06/12 01:31, Jiang Liu wrote:
Changeset 7f1290f2f2 tries to fix a issue when calculating
zone->present_pages, but it causes a regression to 32bit systems with
HIGHMEM. With that changeset, function reset_zone_present_pages()
resets all zone->present_pages to zero, and fixup_zone_present_pages()
is called to recalculate zone->present_pages when boot allocator frees
core memory pages into buddy allocator. Because highmem pages are not
freed by bootmem allocator, all highmem zones' present_pages becomes
zero.

Actually there's no need to recalculate present_pages for highmem zone
because bootmem allocator never allocates pages from them. So fix the
regression by skipping highmem in function reset_zone_present_pages()
and fixup_zone_present_pages().

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chris Clayton <chris2553@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

---

Hi Maciej,
	Thanks for reporting and bisecting. We have analyzed the regression
and worked out a patch for it. Could you please help to verify whether it
fix the regression?
	Thanks!
	Gerry


Thanks Gerry.

I've applied this patch to 3.7.0-rc4 and can confirm that it fixes the problem I had with my laptop failing to resume after a suspend to disk.

Tested-by: Chris Clayton <chris2553@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
  mm/page_alloc.c |    8 +++++---
  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 5b74de6..2311f15 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -6108,7 +6108,8 @@ void reset_zone_present_pages(void)
  	for_each_node_state(nid, N_HIGH_MEMORY) {
  		for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) {
  			z = NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zones + i;
-			z->present_pages = 0;
+			if (!is_highmem(z))
+				z->present_pages = 0;
  		}
  	}
  }
@@ -6123,10 +6124,11 @@ void fixup_zone_present_pages(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn,

  	for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) {
  		z = NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zones + i;
+		if (is_highmem(z))
+			continue;
+
  		zone_start_pfn = z->zone_start_pfn;
  		zone_end_pfn = zone_start_pfn + z->spanned_pages;
-
-		/* if the two regions intersect */
  		if (!(zone_start_pfn >= end_pfn	|| zone_end_pfn <= start_pfn))
  			z->present_pages += min(end_pfn, zone_end_pfn) -
  					    max(start_pfn, zone_start_pfn);


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