[PATCH] mm/page_alloc: don't reserve ZONE_HIGHMEM for ZONE_MOVABLE request

From: js1304@gmail.com
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: don't reserve ZONE_HIGHMEM for ZONE_MOVABLE request
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:45:46 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1503553546-27450-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> (raw)

From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>

Freepage on ZONE_HIGHMEM doesn't work for kernel memory so it's not that
important to reserve. When ZONE_MOVABLE is used, this problem would
theorectically cause to decrease usable memory for GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
allocation request which is mainly used for page cache and anon page
allocation. So, fix it.

And, defining sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio array by MAX_NR_ZONES - 1 size
makes code complex. For example, if there is highmem system, following
reserve ratio is activated for *NORMAL ZONE* which would be easyily
misleading people.

 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
 32
 #endif

This patch also fix this situation by defining sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio
array by MAX_NR_ZONES and place "#ifdef" to right place.

Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
---
 include/linux/mmzone.h |  2 +-
 mm/page_alloc.c        | 11 ++++++-----
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index e7e92c8..e5f134b 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ int min_free_kbytes_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *, int,
 					void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
 int watermark_scale_factor_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *, int,
 					void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
-extern int sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio[MAX_NR_ZONES-1];
+extern int sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio[MAX_NR_ZONES];
 int lowmem_reserve_ratio_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *, int,
 					void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
 int percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *, int,
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 90b1996..6faa53d 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -202,17 +202,18 @@ static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
  * TBD: should special case ZONE_DMA32 machines here - in those we normally
  * don't need any ZONE_NORMAL reservation
  */
-int sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio[MAX_NR_ZONES-1] = {
+int sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio[MAX_NR_ZONES] = {
 #ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
-	 256,
+	[ZONE_DMA] = 256,
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
-	 256,
+	[ZONE_DMA32] = 256,
 #endif
+	[ZONE_NORMAL] = 32,
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
-	 32,
+	[ZONE_HIGHMEM] = INT_MAX,
 #endif
-	 32,
+	[ZONE_MOVABLE] = INT_MAX,
 };
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(totalram_pages);
-- 
2.7.4

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