From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82E886007FC for ; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 09:26:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Suresh Jayaraman Subject: [PATCH 04/31] mm: tag reseve pages Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 19:35:17 +0530 Message-Id: <1254405917-15796-1-git-send-email-sjayaraman@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown , Miklos Szeredi , Wouter Verhelst , Peter Zijlstra , trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, Suresh Jayaraman List-ID: From: Peter Zijlstra Tag pages allocated from the reserves with a non-zero page->reserve. This allows us to distinguish and account reserve pages. Since low-memory situations are transient, and unrelated the the actual page (any page can be on the freelist when we run low), don't mark the page in any permanent way - just pass along the information to the allocatee. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman --- include/linux/mm_types.h | 1 + mm/page_alloc.c | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: mmotm/include/linux/mm_types.h =================================================================== --- mmotm.orig/include/linux/mm_types.h +++ mmotm/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ struct page { union { pgoff_t index; /* Our offset within mapping. */ void *freelist; /* SLUB: freelist req. slab lock */ + int reserve; /* page_alloc: page is a reserve page */ }; struct list_head lru; /* Pageout list, eg. active_list * protected by zone->lru_lock ! Index: mmotm/mm/page_alloc.c =================================================================== --- mmotm.orig/mm/page_alloc.c +++ mmotm/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1501,8 +1501,10 @@ zonelist_scan: try_this_zone: page = buffered_rmqueue(preferred_zone, zone, order, gfp_mask, migratetype); - if (page) + if (page) { + page->reserve = !!(alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS); break; + } this_zone_full: if (NUMA_BUILD) zlc_mark_zone_full(zonelist, z); -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org