From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: [patch 040/131] mm/page_alloc.c: clear out zone->lowmem_reserve[] if the zone is empty Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:58:52 -0700 Message-ID: <20200603225852.6Gh1tflS0%akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20200603155549.e041363450869eaae4c7f05b@linux-foundation.org> Reply-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:40900 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725821AbgFCW6y (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2020 18:58:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200603155549.e041363450869eaae4c7f05b@linux-foundation.org> Sender: mm-commits-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, bhe@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org From: Baoquan He Subject: mm/page_alloc.c: clear out zone->lowmem_reserve[] if the zone is empty When requesting memory allocation from a specific zone is not satisfied, it will fall to lower zone to try allocating memory. In this case, lower zone's ->lowmem_reserve[] will help protect its own memory resource. The higher the relevant ->lowmem_reserve[] is, the harder the upper zone can get memory from this lower zone. However, this protection mechanism should be applied to populated zone, but not an empty zone. So filling ->lowmem_reserve[] for empty zone is not necessary, and may mislead people that it's valid data in that zone. Node 2, zone DMA pages free 0 min 0 low 0 high 0 spanned 0 present 0 managed 0 protection: (0, 0, 1024, 1024) Node 2, zone DMA32 pages free 0 min 0 low 0 high 0 spanned 0 present 0 managed 0 protection: (0, 0, 1024, 1024) Node 2, zone Normal per-node stats nr_inactive_anon 0 nr_active_anon 143 nr_inactive_file 0 nr_active_file 0 nr_unevictable 0 nr_slab_reclaimable 45 nr_slab_unreclaimable 254 Here clear out zone->lowmem_reserve[] if zone is empty. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200402140113.3696-3-bhe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Baoquan He Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/page_alloc.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_allocc-clear-out-zone-lowmem_reserve-if-the-zone-is-empty +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -7704,8 +7704,10 @@ static void setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserv idx--; lower_zone = pgdat->node_zones + idx; - if (!sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio[idx]) { + if (!sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio[idx] || + !zone_managed_pages(lower_zone)) { lower_zone->lowmem_reserve[j] = 0; + continue; } else { lower_zone->lowmem_reserve[j] = managed_pages / sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio[idx]; _