Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:30:08 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] [RFC] Sizing zones and holes in an architecture independent manner V2 | From | (Mel Gorman) |
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On (13/04/06 10:19), Luck, Tony didst pronounce: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 10:52:08AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > I didn't look at the test program output carefully enough! There was a > > double counting of some holes because of a missing "if" - obvious in the > > morning. Fix is this (applies on top of the debugging patch) > > Back to not booting with tiger_defconfig on Intel Tiger box :-( > > There are no lines like: > > On node 0 totalpages: 260725 > DMA zone: 129700 pages, LIFO batch:7 > Normal zone: 131025 pages, LIFO batch:7 > > in the log ... which might explain the OOM later. > > Whole console log appended (The "Kill process 2" messages repeat > forever). > > -Tony > > > <SNIP> > Dumping sorted node map > entry 0: 0 1024 -> 130688 > entry 1: 0 130984 -> 131020 > entry 2: 0 393216 -> 524164 > entry 3: 0 524192 -> 524269 > Hole found index 1: 130688 -> 130984 > Hole found index 2: 131020 -> 262144 > Hole found index 2: 131020 -> 393216
Double counted a hole here, then went downhill. Does the following fix it?
diff -rup -X /usr/src/patchset-0.5/bin//dontdiff linux-2.6.17-rc1-zonesizing-v6/mm/mem_init.c linux-2.6.17-rc1-107-debug/mm/mem_init.c --- linux-2.6.17-rc1-zonesizing-v6/mm/mem_init.c 2006-04-13 10:30:50.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.17-rc1-107-debug/mm/mem_init.c 2006-04-13 18:00:39.000000000 +0100 @@ -753,17 +753,21 @@ unsigned long __init zone_absent_pages_i start_pfn = early_node_map[i].start_pfn; if (start_pfn > arch_zone_highest_possible_pfn[zone_type]) start_pfn = arch_zone_highest_possible_pfn[zone_type]; - if (prev_end_pfn > start_pfn) { - printk("prev_end > start_pfn : %lu > %lu\n", - prev_end_pfn, - start_pfn); - BUG(); - } + if (prev_end_pfn < arch_zone_lowest_possible_pfn[zone_type]) + prev_end_pfn = arch_zone_lowest_possible_pfn[zone_type]; /* Update the hole size cound and move on */ - hole_pages += start_pfn - prev_end_pfn; - printk("Hole found index %d: %lu -> %lu\n", - i, prev_end_pfn, start_pfn); + if (start_pfn > arch_zone_lowest_possible_pfn[zone_type]) { + if (prev_end_pfn > start_pfn) { + printk("prev_end > start_pfn : %lu > %lu\n", + prev_end_pfn, + start_pfn); + BUG(); + } + hole_pages += start_pfn - prev_end_pfn; + printk("Hole found index %d: %lu -> %lu\n", + i, prev_end_pfn, start_pfn); + } prev_end_pfn = early_node_map[i].end_pfn; }
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