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SubjectRe: Regression - locking (all from 2.6.28)
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On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 08:52 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 16:40 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > It seems that node_start_pfn() isn't present on all the architectures. I
> > ended up with something like below:
> >
> > + /* struct page scanning for each node */
> > + for_each_online_node(i) {
> > + pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(i);
> > + unsigned long start_pfn = pgdat->node_start_pfn;
> > + unsigned long end_pfn = start_pfn +
> > + pgdat->node_spanned_pages - 1;
> > + unsigned long pfn;
> > +
> > + for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn++) {
> > + struct page *page;
> > +
> > + if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
> > + continue;
> > + page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
> > + /* only scan if page is in use */
> > + if (page_count(page) == 0)
> > + continue;
> > + scan_block(page, page + 1, NULL);
> > + }
> > + }
>
> What does scan_block() actually scan? Is that second argument
> inclusive?

No, it's exclusive. In the above case, it just scans a struct page at
the given pointer.

> I think you will miss scanning the contents of the last 'struct page' if
> you do it this way because of the -1 you do to end_pfn.

Fixed.

> > Are the pgdat->node_start_pfn and pgdat->node_spanned_pages always
> > valid? Thanks.
>
> The variables themselves? I'm sure there's a window in early boot where
> they aren't valid, but other than that they should be OK unless you're
> int the middle of a hotplug operation.
>
> See pgdat_resize_(un)lock() in include/linux/memory_hotplug.h.

I wouldn't hold a lock for that long. It's not really critical to scan
all the page structures at a time as there are subsequent scans as well,
so some can be missed.

--
Catalin



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