On 2013/8/30 15:41, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 30-08-13 11:44:57, Jianguo Wu wrote:
>> Since commit 8219fc48a(mm: node_states: introduce N_MEMORY),
>
> But this very same commit also says:
> "
> A.example 2) mm/page_cgroup.c use N_HIGH_MEMORY twice:
>
> One is in page_cgroup_init(void):
> for_each_node_state(nid, N_HIGH_MEMORY) {
>
> It means if the node have memory, we will allocate page_cgroup map for
> the node. We should use N_MEMORY instead here to gaim more clearly.
>
> The second using is in alloc_page_cgroup():
> if (node_state(nid, N_HIGH_MEMORY))
> addr = vzalloc_node(size, nid);
>
> It means if the node has high or normal memory that can be allocated
> from kernel. We should keep N_HIGH_MEMORY here, and it will be better
> if the "any memory" semantic of N_HIGH_MEMORY is removed.
> "
>
> Which to me sounds like N_HIGH_MEMORY should be kept here. To be honest,
Hi Michal,
You are right, here we need normal or high memory, but not movable memory,
so N_HIGH_MEMORY should be kept here, the same as other patches, please drop this series.
Thank you for your point out.
Thanks,
Jianguo Wu.
> the distinction is not entirely clear to me. It was supposed to make
> code cleaner but it apparently causes confusion.
>
> It would also help if you CCed Lai Jiangshan who has introduced this
> distinction. CCed now.
>
> I wasn't CCed on the rest of the series but if you do the same
> conversion, please make sure that this is not the case for others as
> well.
>
>> we introduced N_MEMORY, now N_MEMORY stands for the nodes that has any memory,
>> and N_HIGH_MEMORY stands for the nodes that has normal or high memory.
>>
>> The code here need to handle with the nodes which have memory,
>> we should use N_MEMORY instead.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> mm/page_cgroup.c | 2 +-
>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/page_cgroup.c b/mm/page_cgroup.c
>> index 6d757e3..f6f7603 100644
>> --- a/mm/page_cgroup.c
>> +++ b/mm/page_cgroup.c
>> @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ static void *__meminit alloc_page_cgroup(size_t size, int nid)
>> return addr;
>> }
>>
>> - if (node_state(nid, N_HIGH_MEMORY))
>> + if (node_state(nid, N_MEMORY))
>> addr = vzalloc_node(size, nid);
>> else
>> addr = vzalloc(size);
>> --
>> 1.7.1
>>
>>
>
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