The patch titled mm: use alloc_pages_exact() in alloc_large_system_hash() to avoid duplicated logic has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-use-alloc_pages_exact-in-alloc_large_system_hash-to-avoid-duplicated-logic.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: mm: use alloc_pages_exact() in alloc_large_system_hash() to avoid duplicated logic From: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> alloc_large_system_hash() has logic for freeing pages at the end of an excessively large power-of-two buffer that is a duplicate of what is in alloc_pages_exact(). This patch converts alloc_large_system_hash() to use alloc_pages_exact(). Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 21 ++++----------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~mm-use-alloc_pages_exact-in-alloc_large_system_hash-to-avoid-duplicated-logic mm/page_alloc.c --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-use-alloc_pages_exact-in-alloc_large_system_hash-to-avoid-duplicated-logic +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -4749,26 +4749,13 @@ void *__init alloc_large_system_hash(con else if (hashdist) table = __vmalloc(size, GFP_ATOMIC, PAGE_KERNEL); else { - unsigned long order = get_order(size); - - if (order < MAX_ORDER) - table = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, - order); /* * If bucketsize is not a power-of-two, we may free - * some pages at the end of hash table. + * some pages at the end of hash table which + * alloc_pages_exact() automatically does */ - if (table) { - unsigned long alloc_end = (unsigned long)table + - (PAGE_SIZE << order); - unsigned long used = (unsigned long)table + - PAGE_ALIGN(size); - split_page(virt_to_page(table), order); - while (used < alloc_end) { - free_page(used); - used += PAGE_SIZE; - } - } + if (get_order(size) < MAX_ORDER) + table = alloc_pages_exact(size, GFP_ATOMIC); } } while (!table && size > PAGE_SIZE && --log2qty); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mel@xxxxxxxxx are mm-fix-committed_as-underfolow-on-large-nr_cpus-environment.patch vmscan-low-order-lumpy-reclaim-also-should-use-pageout_io_sync.patch mm-alloc_large_system_hash-check-order.patch page-allocator-replace-__alloc_pages_internal-with-__alloc_pages_nodemask.patch page-allocator-do-not-sanity-check-order-in-the-fast-path.patch page-allocator-do-not-sanity-check-order-in-the-fast-path-fix.patch page-allocator-do-not-check-numa-node-id-when-the-caller-knows-the-node-is-valid.patch page-allocator-check-only-once-if-the-zonelist-is-suitable-for-the-allocation.patch page-allocator-break-up-the-allocator-entry-point-into-fast-and-slow-paths.patch page-allocator-move-check-for-disabled-anti-fragmentation-out-of-fastpath.patch page-allocator-calculate-the-preferred-zone-for-allocation-only-once.patch page-allocator-calculate-the-preferred-zone-for-allocation-only-once-fix.patch page-allocator-calculate-the-migratetype-for-allocation-only-once.patch page-allocator-calculate-the-alloc_flags-for-allocation-only-once.patch page-allocator-remove-a-branch-by-assuming-__gfp_high-==-alloc_high.patch page-allocator-inline-__rmqueue_smallest.patch page-allocator-inline-buffered_rmqueue.patch page-allocator-inline-__rmqueue_fallback.patch page-allocator-do-not-call-get_pageblock_migratetype-more-than-necessary.patch page-allocator-do-not-disable-interrupts-in-free_page_mlock.patch page-allocator-do-not-setup-zonelist-cache-when-there-is-only-one-node.patch page-allocator-do-not-check-for-compound-pages-during-the-page-allocator-sanity-checks.patch page-allocator-use-allocation-flags-as-an-index-to-the-zone-watermark.patch page-allocator-update-nr_free_pages-only-as-necessary.patch page-allocator-update-nr_free_pages-only-as-necessary-fix.patch page-allocator-get-the-pageblock-migratetype-without-disabling-interrupts.patch page-allocator-use-a-pre-calculated-value-instead-of-num_online_nodes-in-fast-paths.patch page-allocator-use-a-pre-calculated-value-instead-of-num_online_nodes-in-fast-paths-do-not-override-definition-of-node_set_online-with-macro.patch page-allocator-slab-use-nr_online_nodes-to-check-for-a-numa-platform.patch page-allocator-move-free_page_mlock-to-page_allocc.patch page-allocator-sanity-check-order-in-the-page-allocator-slow-path.patch mm-use-alloc_pages_exact-in-alloc_large_system_hash-to-avoid-duplicated-logic.patch add-debugging-aid-for-memory-initialisation-problems.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html