[RFC v3 2/5] Have __free_pages_memory() free in larger chunks.

Nathan Zimmer
2013-08-12T21:54:44Z

From: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>

Currently, when free_all_bootmem() calls __free_pages_memory(), the
number of contiguous pages that __free_pages_memory() passes to the
buddy allocator is limited to BITS_PER_LONG. In order to be able to
free only the first page of a 2MiB chunk, we need that to be increased.
We are increasing to the maximum size available.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale-asia.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
---
mm/nobootmem.c | 25 ++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/nobootmem.c b/mm/nobootmem.c
index bdd3fa2..2159e68 100644
--- a/mm/nobootmem.c
+++ b/mm/nobootmem.c
@@ -82,27 +82,18 @@ void __init free_bootmem_late(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size)

static void __init __free_pages_memory(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
- unsigned long i, start_aligned, end_aligned;
- int order = ilog2(BITS_PER_LONG);
+ int order;

- start_aligned = (start + (BITS_PER_LONG - 1)) & ~(BITS_PER_LONG - 1);
- end_aligned = end & ~(BITS_PER_LONG - 1);
+ while (start < end) {
+ order = min(MAX_ORDER - 1, __ffs(start));

- if (end_aligned <= start_aligned) {
- for (i = start; i < end; i++)
- __free_pages_bootmem(pfn_to_page(i), 0);
+ while (start + (1UL << order) > end)
+ order--;

- return;
- }
-
- for (i = start; i < start_aligned; i++)
- __free_pages_bootmem(pfn_to_page(i), 0);
+ __free_pages_bootmem(pfn_to_page(start), order);

- for (i = start_aligned; i < end_aligned; i += BITS_PER_LONG)
- __free_pages_bootmem(pfn_to_page(i), order);
-
- for (i = end_aligned; i < end; i++)
- __free_pages_bootmem(pfn_to_page(i), 0);
+ start += (1UL << order);
+ }
}

static unsigned long __init __free_memory_core(phys_addr_t start,
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