On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Jiang Liu wrote: > I feel that zone->present_pages has been abused. I guess it means "physical > pages > present in this zone" originally, but now sometimes zone->present_pages is > used as > "pages in this zone managed by the buddy system".
It's definition is all pages spanned by the zone that are not reserved and unavailable to the kernel to allocate from, and the implementation of bootmem requires that its memory be considered as "reserved" until freed. It's used throughout the kernel to determine the amount of memory that is allocatable in that zone from the page allocator since its reclaim heuristics and watermarks depend on this memory being allocatable. > So I'm trying to add a new > field "managed_pages" into zone, which accounts for pages managed by buddy > system. > That's why I thought the clean solution is a little complex:( > You need to update the pgdat's node_present_pages to be consistent with all of its zones' present_pages. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
