Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Haben <> | Subject | Memory-compaction not working on Atmel SAMA5 ARM platform, kernel v4.14 and v4.20 | Date | Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:07:53 +0000 |
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Hello all,
Memory-compaction is not working for me on an Atmel SAMA5D2 SoC with 128Mbyte of RAM, on kernel versions 4.14.73. 4.14.88 and 4.20.0
Using "cat /proc/buddyinfo" to observe the state of memory fragmentation, and "echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory" to (try to) trigger compaction.
My kernel's /proc/config.gz includes "CONFIG_COMPACTION=y" and "CONFIG_MIGRATION=y"
I have rebuilt v4.20 several++ times, enabling various "CONFIG_xxx" items trying to enable tracing, but without success (/sys/kernel/debug/tracing is not present), so I haven't been able to observe whether the compaction-trigger is having any effect at all.
Some circumstantial evidence: memory-compaction was working on another ARM platform (Raspberry Pi) with kernel v4.9 (Raspbian Jessie), but stopped working when I dist-upgraded it to v4.14.98 (Raspbian Stretch). The " /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory" device-node is present, but writing to it has no effect on the output from "cat /proc/buddyinfo".
So my questions are:
1. Are "CONFIG_COMPACTION=y" + "CONFIG_MIGRATION=y" the only settings necessary for memory-compaction to be present and working in a kernel? I have Done My Own Research, but Am Not An Expert on Linux kernel features!
2. Must I persevere with trying to get tracing working, or is there another way I can debug this issue?
Thank you,
Mike Haben
ASH Wireless
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