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mm: introduce arch_reserved_kernel_pages()
authorSrikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:59:15 +0000 (16:59 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 8 Oct 2016 01:46:28 +0000 (18:46 -0700)
commitf6f34b4387d9e18304451a131b35d7c4f27a0b5a
treeb5098f74ab735fbac404c4acab5d6c5cd2fe54e4
parentc9634cf012321243ee8e4ea0fb0709904cd58395
mm: introduce arch_reserved_kernel_pages()

Currently arch specific code can reserve memory blocks but
alloc_large_system_hash() may not take it into consideration when sizing
the hashes.  This can lead to bigger hash than required and lead to no
available memory for other purposes.  This is specifically true for
systems with CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT enabled.

One approach to solve this problem would be to walk through the memblock
regions and calculate the available memory and base the size of hash
system on the available memory.

The other approach would be to depend on the architecture to provide the
number of pages that are reserved.  This change provides hooks to allow
the architecture to provide the required info.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472476010-4709-2-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mm.h
mm/page_alloc.c