Re: [PATCH] MM : alloc_large_system_hash() can free some memory for non power-of-two bucketsize

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 18 May 2007 11:54:54 +0200 Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> wrote:

> alloc_large_system_hash() is called at boot time to allocate space for several large hash tables.
> 
> Lately, TCP hash table was changed and its bucketsize is not a power-of-two anymore.
> 
> On most setups, alloc_large_system_hash() allocates one big page (order > 0) with __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, order). This single high_order page has a power-of-two size, bigger than the needed size.

Watch the 200-column text, please.

> We can free all pages that wont be used by the hash table.
> 
> On a 1GB i386 machine, this patch saves 128 KB of LOWMEM memory.
> 
> TCP established hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 393216 bytes)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index ae96dd8..2e0ba08 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -3350,6 +3350,20 @@ void *__init alloc_large_system_hash(const char *tablename,
>  			for (order = 0; ((1UL << order) << PAGE_SHIFT) < size; order++)
>  				;
>  			table = (void*) __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, order);
> +			/*
> +			 * If bucketsize is not a power-of-two, we may free
> +			 * some pages at the end of hash table.
> +			 */
> +			if (table) {
> +				unsigned long alloc_end = (unsigned long)table +
> +						(PAGE_SIZE << order);
> +				unsigned long used = (unsigned long)table +
> +						PAGE_ALIGN(size);
> +				while (used < alloc_end) {
> +					free_page(used);
> +					used += PAGE_SIZE;
> +				}
> +			}
>  		}
>  	} while (!table && size > PAGE_SIZE && --log2qty);
>  

It went BUG.

static inline int put_page_testzero(struct page *page)
{
	VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) == 0);
	return atomic_dec_and_test(&page->_count);
}

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