Re: [RFC 2/4] Have __free_pages_memory() free in larger chunks.

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Hi Robin,
On 07/12/2013 10:03 AM, Robin Holt wrote:
Currently, when free_all_bootmem() calls __free_pages_memory(), the
number of contiguous pages that __free_pages_memory() passes to the
buddy allocator is limited to BITS_PER_LONG.  In order to be able to

I fail to understand this. Why the original page number is BITS_PER_LONG?

free only the first page of a 2MiB chunk, we need that to be increased
to PTRS_PER_PMD.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nate Zimmer <nzimmer@xxxxxxx>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linux MM <linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
---
  mm/nobootmem.c | 8 ++++----
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/nobootmem.c b/mm/nobootmem.c
index bdd3fa2..3b512ca 100644
--- a/mm/nobootmem.c
+++ b/mm/nobootmem.c
@@ -83,10 +83,10 @@ void __init free_bootmem_late(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size)
  static void __init __free_pages_memory(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
  {
  	unsigned long i, start_aligned, end_aligned;
-	int order = ilog2(BITS_PER_LONG);
+	int order = ilog2(max(BITS_PER_LONG, PTRS_PER_PMD));
- start_aligned = (start + (BITS_PER_LONG - 1)) & ~(BITS_PER_LONG - 1);
-	end_aligned = end & ~(BITS_PER_LONG - 1);
+	start_aligned = (start + ((1UL << order) - 1)) & ~((1UL << order) - 1);
+	end_aligned = end & ~((1UL << order) - 1);
if (end_aligned <= start_aligned) {
  		for (i = start; i < end; i++)
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ static void __init __free_pages_memory(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
  	for (i = start; i < start_aligned; i++)
  		__free_pages_bootmem(pfn_to_page(i), 0);
- for (i = start_aligned; i < end_aligned; i += BITS_PER_LONG)
+	for (i = start_aligned; i < end_aligned; i += 1 << order)
  		__free_pages_bootmem(pfn_to_page(i), order);
for (i = end_aligned; i < end; i++)

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