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SubjectRe: [RFT PATCH v1 0/5] fix up inaccurate zone->present_pages
On 11/20/2012 10:43 AM, Jiang Liu wrote:
> On 2012-11-20 10:13, Jaegeuk Hanse wrote:
>> On 11/19/2012 12:07 AM, Jiang Liu wrote:
>>> The commit 7f1290f2f2a4 ("mm: fix-up zone present pages") tries to
>>> resolve an issue caused by inaccurate zone->present_pages, but that
>>> fix is incomplete and causes regresions with HIGHMEM. And it has been
>>> reverted by commit
>>> 5576646 revert "mm: fix-up zone present pages"
>>>
>>> This is a following-up patchset for the issue above. It introduces a
>>> new field named "managed_pages" to struct zone, which counts pages
>>> managed by the buddy system from the zone. And zone->present_pages
>>> is used to count pages existing in the zone, which is
>>> spanned_pages - absent_pages.
>>>
>>> But that way, zone->present_pages will be kept in consistence with
>>> pgdat->node_present_pages, which is sum of zone->present_pages.
>>>
>>> This patchset has only been tested on x86_64 with nobootmem.c. So need
>>> help to test this patchset on machines:
>>> 1) use bootmem.c
>> If only x86_32 use bootmem.c instead of nobootmem.c? How could I confirm it?
> Hi Jaegeuk,
> Thanks for review this patch set.
> Currently x86/x86_64/Sparc have been converted to use nobootmem.c,
> and other Arches still use bootmem.c. So need to test it on other Arches,
> such as ARM etc. Yesterday we have tested it patchset on an Itanium platform,
> so bootmem.c should work as expected too.

Hi Jiang,

If there are any codes changed in x86/x86_64 to meet nobootmem.c logic?
I mean if remove
config NO_BOOTMEM
def_bool y
in arch/x86/Kconfig, whether x86/x86_64 can take advantage of bootmem.c
or not.

Regards,
Jaegeuk

> Thanks!
> Gerry
>
>



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