Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752859AbbEZKW1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2015 06:22:27 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:53523 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752838AbbEZKW0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2015 06:22:26 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 11:22:19 +0100 From: Mel Gorman To: Tony Luck Cc: Andrew Morton , Nathan Zimmer , Dave Hansen , Waiman Long , Scott Norton , Daniel J Blueman , Linux-MM , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/13] mm: meminit: Only set page reserved in the memblock region Message-ID: <20150526102219.GB13750@suse.de> References: <1430231830-7702-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <1430231830-7702-4-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1993 Lines: 49 On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 01:31:55PM -0700, Tony Luck wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > > Currently each page struct is set as reserved upon initialization. > > This patch leaves the reserved bit clear and only sets the reserved bit > > when it is known the memory was allocated by the bootmem allocator. This > > makes it easier to distinguish between uninitialised struct pages and > > reserved struct pages in later patches. > > On ia64 my linux-next builds now report a bunch of messages like this: > > put_kernel_page: page at 0xe000000005588000 not in reserved memory > put_kernel_page: page at 0xe000000005588000 not in reserved memory > put_kernel_page: page at 0xe000000005580000 not in reserved memory > put_kernel_page: page at 0xe000000005580000 not in reserved memory > put_kernel_page: page at 0xe000000005580000 not in reserved memory > put_kernel_page: page at 0xe000000005580000 not in reserved memory > > the two different pages match up with two objects from the loaded kernel > that get mapped by arch/ia64/mm/init.c:setup_gate() > > a000000101588000 D __start_gate_section > a000000101580000 D empty_zero_page > > Should I look for a place to set the reserved bit on page structures for these > addresses? That would be preferred. > Or just remove the test and message in put_kernel_page() > [I added a debug "else" clause here - every caller passes in a page that is > not reserved] > > if (!PageReserved(page)) > printk(KERN_ERR "put_kernel_page: page at 0x%p not in > reserved memory\n", > page_address(page)); > But as it's a debugging check that is ia-64 specific I think either should be fine. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/