On 03/05/2013 12:37 AM, Jiang Liu wrote:
On 03/04/2013 07:57 AM, Simon Jeons wrote:
Hi Jiang,
On 03/03/2013 11:43 PM, Jiang Liu wrote:
Hi Simon,
Bootmem allocator is used to managed DMA and Normal memory only, and it does not manage highmem pages because kernel
can't directly access highmem pages.
Why you say so? Could you point out where you figure out bootmem allocator doesn't handle highmem pages? In my understanding, it doesn't distinguish low memory or high memory.
Hi Simon,
According to my understanding, bootmem allocator does only manages lowmem pages.
For traditional bootmem allocator in mm/bootmem.c, it could only manages directly mapped lowmem pages.
For new bootmem allocator in mm/nobootmem.c, it depends on memblock to do the real work. Let's take
x86 as an example:
1) following code set memblock.current_limit to max_low_pfn.
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c: memblock.current_limit = get_max_mapped();
2) the core of bootmem allocator in nobootmem.c is function __alloc_memory_core_early(),
which has following code to avoid allocate highmem pages:
static void * __init __alloc_memory_core_early(int nid, u64 size, u64 align,
u64 goal, u64 limit)
{
void *ptr;
u64 addr;
if (limit > memblock.current_limit)
limit = memblock.current_limit;
addr = memblock_find_in_range_node(goal, limit, size, align, nid);
if (!addr)
return NULL;
}
I guess it's the same for other architectures. On the other hand, some other architectures
may allocate highmem pages during boot by directly using memblock interfaces. For example,
ppc use memblock interfaces to allocate highmem pages for giagant hugetlb pages.
highmem is just used for x86, correct? ppc doesn't have highmem I think.
I'm working a patch set to fix those cases.
Regards!
Gerry
Regards!
Gerry
On 02/28/2013 02:13 PM, Simon Jeons wrote:
Hi Jiang,
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1781291/
You said that the bootmem allocator doesn't touch *highmem pages*, so highmem zones' managed_pages is set to the accurate value "spanned_pages - absent_pages" in function free_area_init_core() and won't be updated anymore. Why it doesn't touch *highmem pages*? Could you point out where you figure out this?
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