From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f45.google.com (mail-pa0-f45.google.com [209.85.220.45]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF5B6B00A2 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 00:02:20 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pa0-f45.google.com with SMTP id rd3so16383832pab.4 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:02:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from lgeamrelo01.lge.com (lgeamrelo01.lge.com. [156.147.1.125]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id qg1si390139pac.165.2015.02.13.21.02.18 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:02:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54DED6D8.7080609@lge.com> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 14:02:16 +0900 From: Gioh Kim MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [RFC 13/16] mm/cma: populate ZONE_CMA and use this zone when GFP_HIGHUSERMOVABLE References: <1423726340-4084-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> <1423726340-4084-14-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> In-Reply-To: <1423726340-4084-14-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=euc-kr Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Joonsoo Kim , Andrew Morton Cc: Rik van Riel , Johannes Weiner , Mel Gorman , Laura Abbott , Minchan Kim , Heesub Shin , Marek Szyprowski , Michal Nazarewicz , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hui Zhu , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Ritesh Harjani , Vlastimil Babka 2015-02-12 ?AEA 4:32?! Joonsoo Kim AI(?!) 3/4 ' +-U: > Until now, reserved pages for CMA are managed altogether with normal > page in the same zone. This approach has numorous problems and fixing > them isn't easy. To fix this situation, ZONE_CMA is introduced in > previous patch, but, not yet populated. This patch implement population > of ZONE_CMA by stealing reserved pages from normal zones. This stealing > break one uncertain assumption on zone, that is, zone isn't overlapped. > In the early of this series, some check is inserted to every zone's span > iterator to handle zone overlap so there would be no problem with > this assumption break. > > To utilize this zone, user should use GFP_HIGHUSERMOVABLE, because I think it might be typo of GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE. > these pages are only applicable for movable type and ZONE_CMA could > contain highmem. > -- 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