Hello,
On Monday, April 04, 2011 3:15 PM Michał Nazarewicz wrote:
> > What kind of success have you had running this in practice? I'd be
> > worried that some silly task or a sticky dentry would end up in the
> > range that you want to allocate in.
>
> I'm not sure what you are asking.
>
> The
On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 00:51 +0200, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
The function is called from alloc_contig_range() (see patch 05/12) which
makes sure that the PFN is valid. Situation where there is not enough
space is caught earlier in alloc_contig_range().
alloc_contig_freed_pages() must be given a
On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 00:51 +0200, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:26:51 +0200, Dave Hansen
> wrote:
> >> Bug in the above place does not mean that we could not allocate
> >> memory. It means caller is broken.
> >
> > Could you explain that a bit?
> >
> > Is this a case wher
On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:26:51 +0200, Dave Hansen
wrote:
On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 00:18 +0200, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:14:38 +0200, Dave Hansen wrote:
> We BUG_ON() in bootmem. Basically if we try to allocate an early-boot
> structure and fail, we're screwed. We can't ke
On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 00:18 +0200, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:14:38 +0200, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > We BUG_ON() in bootmem. Basically if we try to allocate an early-boot
> > structure and fail, we're screwed. We can't keep running without an
> > inode hash, or a mem_map[].
>
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 15:16 +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
+unsigned long alloc_contig_freed_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned
long end,
+ gfp_t flag)
+{
+ unsigned long pfn = start, count;
+ struct page *page;
+ struct zone *zone;
+
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 23:09 +0200, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:58:03 +0200, Dave Hansen
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 15:16 +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> >> +unsigned long alloc_contig_freed_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned
> >> long end,
> >> +
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:58:03 +0200, Dave Hansen
wrote:
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 15:16 +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
+unsigned long alloc_contig_freed_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned
long end,
+ gfp_t flag)
+{
+ unsigned long pfn = start, count
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 15:24 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:58:03AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 15:16 +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> > >
> > > +unsigned long alloc_contig_freed_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned
> > > long end,
> > > +
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:58:03AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 15:16 +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> >
> > +unsigned long alloc_contig_freed_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long
> > end,
> > + gfp_t flag)
> > +{
> > + unsigned
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 15:16 +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>
> +unsigned long alloc_contig_freed_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long
> end,
> + gfp_t flag)
> +{
> + unsigned long pfn = start, count;
> + struct page *page;
> + struct zone
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