[PATCH v2 2/6] mm/page_alloc: tweak comments in has_unmovable_pages()

David Hildenbrand
Thu, 30 Jul 2020 09:34:12 -0000

Let's move the split comment regarding bootmem allocations and memory
holes, especially in the context of ZONE_MOVABLE, to the PageReserved()
check.

Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz at oracle.com>
Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 22 ++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index e028b87ce2942..042ba09d70c5d 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -8207,14 +8207,6 @@ struct page *has_unmovable_pages(struct zone *zone,
struct page *page,
 	unsigned long iter = 0;
 	unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);

-	/*
-	 * TODO we could make this much more efficient by not checking every
-	 * page in the range if we know all of them are in MOVABLE_ZONE and
-	 * that the movable zone guarantees that pages are migratable but
-	 * the later is not the case right now unfortunatelly. E.g. movablecore
-	 * can still lead to having bootmem allocations in zone_movable.
-	 */
-
 	if (is_migrate_cma_page(page)) {
 		/*
 		 * CMA allocations (alloc_contig_range) really need to mark
@@ -8233,6 +8225,12 @@ struct page *has_unmovable_pages(struct zone *zone,
struct page *page,

 		page = pfn_to_page(pfn + iter);

+		/*
+		 * Both, bootmem allocations and memory holes are marked
+		 * PG_reserved and are unmovable. We can even have unmovable
+		 * allocations inside ZONE_MOVABLE, for example when
+		 * specifying "movablecore".
+		 */
 		if (PageReserved(page))
 			return page;

@@ -8306,14 +8304,6 @@ struct page *has_unmovable_pages(struct zone *zone,
struct page *page,
 		 * it.  But now, memory offline itself doesn't call
 		 * shrink_node_slabs() and it still to be fixed.
 		 */
-		/*
-		 * If the page is not RAM, page_count()should be 0.
-		 * we don't need more check. This is an _used_ not-movable page.
-		 *
-		 * The problematic thing here is PG_reserved pages. PG_reserved
-		 * is set to both of a memory hole page and a _used_ kernel
-		 * page at boot.
-		 */
 		return page;
 	}
 	return NULL;
--
2.26.2