qubes-linux-kernel/patches.suse/SoN-04-page_alloc-reserve.patch
2011-04-19 22:09:59 +02:00

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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: [PATCH 04/31] mm: tag reseve pages
Patch-mainline: not yet
Tag pages allocated from the reserves with a non-zero page->reserve.
This allows us to distinguish and account reserve pages.
Since low-memory situations are transient, and unrelated the the actual
page (any page can be on the freelist when we run low), don't mark the
page in any permanent way - just pass along the information to the
allocatee.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
---
include/linux/mm_types.h | 1 +
mm/page_alloc.c | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ struct page {
union {
pgoff_t index; /* Our offset within mapping. */
void *freelist; /* SLUB: freelist req. slab lock */
+ int reserve; /* page_alloc: page is a reserve page */
};
struct list_head lru; /* Pageout list, eg. active_list
* protected by zone->lru_lock !
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1656,8 +1656,10 @@ zonelist_scan:
try_this_zone:
page = buffered_rmqueue(preferred_zone, zone, order,
gfp_mask, migratetype);
- if (page)
+ if (page) {
+ page->reserve = !!(alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS);
break;
+ }
this_zone_full:
if (NUMA_BUILD)
zlc_mark_zone_full(zonelist, z);