[RFC 2/4] Have __free_pages_memory() free in larger chunks.

Robin Holt
2013-07-12T02:04:10Z

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
to PTRS_PER_PMD.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nate 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 | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/nobootmem.c b/mm/nobootmem.c
index bdd3fa2..3b512ca 100644
--- a/mm/nobootmem.c
+++ b/mm/nobootmem.c
@@ -83,10 +83,10 @@ 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 = ilog2(max(BITS_PER_LONG, PTRS_PER_PMD));

- start_aligned = (start + (BITS_PER_LONG - 1)) & ~(BITS_PER_LONG - 1);
- end_aligned = end & ~(BITS_PER_LONG - 1);
+ start_aligned = (start + ((1UL << order) - 1)) & ~((1UL << order) - 1);
+ end_aligned = end & ~((1UL << order) - 1);

if (end_aligned <= start_aligned) {
for (i = start; i < end; i++)
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ static void __init __free_pages_memory(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
for (i = start; i < start_aligned; i++)
__free_pages_bootmem(pfn_to_page(i), 0);

- for (i = start_aligned; i < end_aligned; i += BITS_PER_LONG)
+ for (i = start_aligned; i < end_aligned; i += 1 << order)
__free_pages_bootmem(pfn_to_page(i), order);

for (i = end_aligned; i < end; i++)
--
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