mm: introduce new field "managed_pages" to struct zone

Currently a zone's present_pages is calcuated as below, which is
inaccurate and may cause trouble to memory hotplug.

	spanned_pages - absent_pages - memmap_pages - dma_reserve.

During fixing bugs caused by inaccurate zone->present_pages, we found
zone->present_pages has been abused.  The field zone->present_pages may
have different meanings in different contexts:

1) pages existing in a zone.
2) pages managed by the buddy system.

For more discussions about the issue, please refer to:
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/5/866
  https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1346751/

This patchset tries to introduce a new field named "managed_pages" to
struct zone, which counts "pages managed by the buddy system".  And revert
zone->present_pages to count "physical pages existing in a zone", which
also keep in consistence with pgdat->node_present_pages.

We will set an initial value for zone->managed_pages in function
free_area_init_core() and will adjust it later if the initial value is
inaccurate.

For DMA/normal zones, the initial value is set to:

	(spanned_pages - absent_pages - memmap_pages - dma_reserve)

Later zone->managed_pages will be adjusted to the accurate value when the
bootmem allocator frees all free pages to the buddy system in function
free_all_bootmem_node() and free_all_bootmem().

The bootmem allocator doesn't touch highmem pages, so highmem zones'
managed_pages is set to the accurate value "spanned_pages - absent_pages"
in function free_area_init_core() and won't be updated anymore.

This patch also adds a new field "managed_pages" to /proc/zoneinfo
and sysrq showmem.

[[email protected]: small comment tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Wen Congyang <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Maciej Rutecki <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Chris Clayton <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Jianguo Wu <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Jiang Liu 2012-12-12 13:52:12 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 9feedc9d83
6 changed files with 121 additions and 23 deletions

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@ -994,14 +994,16 @@ static void zoneinfo_show_print(struct seq_file *m, pg_data_t *pgdat,
"\n high %lu"
"\n scanned %lu"
"\n spanned %lu"
"\n present %lu",
"\n present %lu"
"\n managed %lu",
zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES),
min_wmark_pages(zone),
low_wmark_pages(zone),
high_wmark_pages(zone),
zone->pages_scanned,
zone->spanned_pages,
zone->present_pages);
zone->present_pages,
zone->managed_pages);
for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS; i++)
seq_printf(m, "\n %-12s %lu", vmstat_text[i],