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authorJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>2018-04-10 16:30:11 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-04-11 10:28:32 -0700
commitd3cda2337bbc9edd2a26b83cb00eaa8c048ff274 (patch)
tree96e2745e71e23f92a7ce96b6a6b1eec3b69cd779 /Documentation/sysctl
parent94723aafb9e76414fada7c1c198733a86f01ea8f (diff)
downloadlinux-d3cda2337bbc9edd2a26b83cb00eaa8c048ff274.tar.bz2
mm/page_alloc: don't reserve ZONE_HIGHMEM for ZONE_MOVABLE request
Freepage on ZONE_HIGHMEM doesn't work for kernel memory so it's not that important to reserve. When ZONE_MOVABLE is used, this problem would theorectically cause to decrease usable memory for GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE allocation request which is mainly used for page cache and anon page allocation. So, fix it by setting 0 to sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio[ZONE_HIGHMEM]. And, defining sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio array by MAX_NR_ZONES - 1 size makes code complex. For example, if there is highmem system, following reserve ratio is activated for *NORMAL ZONE* which would be easyily misleading people. #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM 32 #endif This patch also fixes this situation by defining sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio array by MAX_NR_ZONES and place "#ifdef" to right place. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1504672525-17915-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index ff234d229cbb..17256f2ad919 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -312,8 +312,6 @@ The lowmem_reserve_ratio is an array. You can see them by reading this file.
% cat /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio
256 256 32
-
-Note: # of this elements is one fewer than number of zones. Because the highest
- zone's value is not necessary for following calculation.
But, these values are not used directly. The kernel calculates # of protection
pages for each zones from them. These are shown as array of protection pages
@@ -364,7 +362,8 @@ As above expression, they are reciprocal number of ratio.
pages of higher zones on the node.
If you would like to protect more pages, smaller values are effective.
-The minimum value is 1 (1/1 -> 100%).
+The minimum value is 1 (1/1 -> 100%). The value less than 1 completely
+disables protection of the pages.
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