From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754369Ab2HMUjG (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:39:06 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:55329 "EHLO mail-ob0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754190Ab2HMUWj (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:22:39 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg KH , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Xishi Qiu , Jiang Liu , Tony Luck , Yinghai Lu , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , KOSAKI Motohiro , David Rientjes , Keping Chen Subject: [ 31/82] mm: setup pageblock_order before its used by sparsemem Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:19:07 -0700 Message-Id: <20120813201749.162047394@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.1.362.g242cab3 In-Reply-To: <20120813201746.448504360@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20120813201746.448504360@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-20.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Greg KH 3.5-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Xishi Qiu commit ca57df79d4f64e1a4886606af4289d40636189c5 upstream. On architectures with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE set, such as Itanium, pageblock_order is a variable with default value of 0. It's set to the right value by set_pageblock_order() in function free_area_init_core(). But pageblock_order may be used by sparse_init() before free_area_init_core() is called along path: sparse_init() ->sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node() ->usemap_size() ->SECTION_BLOCKFLAGS_BITS ->((1UL << (PFN_SECTION_SHIFT - pageblock_order)) * NR_PAGEBLOCK_BITS) The uninitialized pageblock_size will cause memory wasting because usemap_size() returns a much bigger value then it's really needed. For example, on an Itanium platform, sparse_init() pageblock_order=0 usemap_size=24576 free_area_init_core() before pageblock_order=0, usemap_size=24576 free_area_init_core() after pageblock_order=12, usemap_size=8 That means 24K memory has been wasted for each section, so fix it by calling set_pageblock_order() from sparse_init(). Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Yinghai Lu Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Keping Chen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/internal.h | 2 ++ mm/page_alloc.c | 4 ++-- mm/sparse.c | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/internal.h +++ b/mm/internal.h @@ -347,3 +347,5 @@ extern u32 hwpoison_filter_enable; extern unsigned long vm_mmap_pgoff(struct file *, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long); + +extern void set_pageblock_order(void); --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -4301,7 +4301,7 @@ static inline void setup_usemap(struct p #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE /* Initialise the number of pages represented by NR_PAGEBLOCK_BITS */ -static inline void __init set_pageblock_order(void) +void __init set_pageblock_order(void) { unsigned int order; @@ -4329,7 +4329,7 @@ static inline void __init set_pageblock_ * include/linux/pageblock-flags.h for the values of pageblock_order based on * the kernel config */ -static inline void set_pageblock_order(void) +void __init set_pageblock_order(void) { } --- a/mm/sparse.c +++ b/mm/sparse.c @@ -493,6 +493,9 @@ void __init sparse_init(void) struct page **map_map; #endif + /* Setup pageblock_order for HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE */ + set_pageblock_order(); + /* * map is using big page (aka 2M in x86 64 bit) * usemap is less one page (aka 24 bytes)