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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Possible partial miss in pages needed for zone's memory map?
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 14:19:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y769f7i4.fsf@saeurebad.de> (raw)

Hi,

I stumbled over the following in the zone initialization code.  Please
let me know if I overlooked something here.

---

From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Subject: [PATCH] Don't drop a partial page in a zone's memory map size

In a zone's present pages number, account for all pages occupied by the
memory map, including a partial.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
---

--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3378,7 +3378,8 @@ static void __paginginit free_area_init_
 		 * is used by this zone for memmap. This affects the watermark
 		 * and per-cpu initialisations
 		 */
-		memmap_pages = (size * sizeof(struct page)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+		memmap_pages =
+			PAGE_ALIGN(size * sizeof(struct page)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 		if (realsize >= memmap_pages) {
 			realsize -= memmap_pages;
 			printk(KERN_DEBUG

             reply	other threads:[~2008-05-17 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-17 12:19 Johannes Weiner [this message]
2008-05-20  6:19 ` Possible partial miss in pages needed for zone's memory map? Andrew Morton
2008-05-20  7:02   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki

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