[merged mm-stable] mm-page_allocc-dont-show-protection-in-zones-lowmem_reserve-for-empty-zone.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] mm-page_allocc-dont-show-protection-in-zones-lowmem_reserve-for-empty-zone.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm/page_alloc.c: don't show protection in zone's ->lowmem_reserve[] for empty zone
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-page_allocc-dont-show-protection-in-zones-lowmem_reserve-for-empty-zone.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Subject: mm/page_alloc.c: don't show protection in zone's ->lowmem_reserve[] for empty zone
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:11:32 +0800

On one node, for lower zone's ->lowmem_reserve[], it will show how much
memory is reserved in this lower zone to avoid excessive page allocation
from the relevant higher zone's fallback allocation.

However, currently lower zone's lowmem_reserve[] element will be filled
even though the relevant higher zone is empty.  That doesnt' make sense
and can cause confusion.

E.g on node 0 of one system as below, it has zone
DMA/DMA32/NORMAL/MOVABLE/DEVICE, among them zone MOVABLE/DEVICE are the
highest and both are empty.  In zone DMA/DMA32's protection array, we can
see that it has value for zone MOVABLE and DEVICE.

Node 0, zone      DMA
  ......
  pages free     2816
        boost    0
        min      7
        low      10
        high     13
        spanned  4095
        present  3998
        managed  3840
        cma      0
        protection: (0, 1582, 23716, 23716, 23716)
   ......
Node 0, zone    DMA32
  pages free     403269
        boost    0
        min      753
        low      1158
        high     1563
        spanned  1044480
        present  487039
        managed  405070
        cma      0
        protection: (0, 0, 22134, 22134, 22134)
   ......
Node 0, zone   Normal
  pages free     5423879
        boost    0
        min      10539
        low      16205
        high     21871
        spanned  5767168
        present  5767168
        managed  5666438
        cma      0
        protection: (0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
   ......
Node 0, zone  Movable
  pages free     0
        boost    0
        min      32
        low      32
        high     32
        spanned  0
        present  0
        managed  0
        cma      0
        protection: (0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
Node 0, zone   Device
  pages free     0
        boost    0
        min      0
        low      0
        high     0
        spanned  0
        present  0
        managed  0
        cma      0
        protection: (0, 0, 0, 0, 0)

Here, clear out the element value in lower zone's ->lowmem_reserve[] if the
relevant higher zone is empty.

And also replace space with tab in _deferred_grow_zone()

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326061134.1055295-7-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/page_alloc.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_allocc-dont-show-protection-in-zones-lowmem_reserve-for-empty-zone
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ static inline bool deferred_pages_enable
 static bool __ref
 _deferred_grow_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order)
 {
-       return deferred_grow_zone(zone, order);
+	return deferred_grow_zone(zone, order);
 }
 #else
 static inline bool deferred_pages_enabled(void)
@@ -5903,10 +5903,11 @@ static void setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserv
 
 			for (j = i + 1; j < MAX_NR_ZONES; j++) {
 				struct zone *upper_zone = &pgdat->node_zones[j];
+				bool empty = !zone_managed_pages(upper_zone);
 
 				managed_pages += zone_managed_pages(upper_zone);
 
-				if (clear)
+				if (clear || empty)
 					zone->lowmem_reserve[j] = 0;
 				else
 					zone->lowmem_reserve[j] = managed_pages / ratio;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from bhe@redhat.com are

documentation-kdump-clean-up-the-outdated-description.patch
kexec-fix-the-unexpected-kexec_dprintk-macro.patch
crash-add-prefix-for-crash-dumping-messages.patch