From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx191.postini.com [74.125.245.191]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6E7C6B004F for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 11:24:29 -0500 (EST) Received: by qao25 with SMTP id 25so1693056qao.14 for ; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:24:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EE0E4B9.4050903@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:24:25 -0500 From: KOSAKI Motohiro MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Question about __zone_watermark_ok: why there is a "+ 1" in computing free_pages? References: <20111205161443.GA20663@tiehlicka.suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <20111205161443.GA20663@tiehlicka.suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Michal Hocko Cc: Wang Sheng-Hui , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton (12/5/11 11:14 AM), Michal Hocko wrote: > On Fri 25-11-11 09:21:35, Wang Sheng-Hui wrote: >> In line 1459, we have "free_pages -= (1<< order) + 1;". >> Suppose allocating one 0-order page, here we'll get >> free_pages -= 1 + 1 >> I wonder why there is a "+ 1"? > > Good spot. Check the patch bellow. > --- > From 38a1cf351b111e8791d2db538c8b0b912f5df8b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Michal Hocko > Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 17:04:23 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] mm: fix off-by-two in __zone_watermark_ok > > 88f5acf8 [mm: page allocator: adjust the per-cpu counter threshold when > memory is low] changed the form how free_pages is calculated but it > forgot that we used to do free_pages - ((1<< order) - 1) so we ended up > with off-by-two when calculating free_pages. > > Spotted-by: Wang Sheng-Hui > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko > --- > mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c > index 9dd443d..8a2f1b6 100644 > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c > @@ -1457,7 +1457,7 @@ static bool __zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, int order, unsigned long mark, > long min = mark; > int o; > > - free_pages -= (1<< order) + 1; > + free_pages -= (1<< order) - 1; > if (alloc_flags& ALLOC_HIGH) > min -= min / 2; > if (alloc_flags& ALLOC_HARDER) Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org