For buddy system initialization, the holes between banks adjacent will be released to buddy allocator?
Li Haifeng
omycle at gmail.com
Sun Aug 26 06:39:47 EDT 2012
Sorry to disturb you again.
I am still confused about holes between banks adjacent.
The lines 180~181 get the low memory's range, and the range includes holes.
But while releasing the memory to buddy allocator, the code doesn't
prevent the holes from releasing to the buddy allocator.
172 static unsigned long __init free_all_bootmem_core(bootmem_data_t *bdata)
173 {
174 struct page *page;
175 unsigned long start, end, pages, count = 0;
176
177 if (!bdata->node_bootmem_map)
178 return 0;
179
180 start = bdata->node_min_pfn;
181 end = bdata->node_low_pfn;
182
183 bdebug("nid=%td start=%lx end=%lx\n",
184 bdata - bootmem_node_data, start, end);
185
186 while (start < end) {
187 unsigned long *map, idx, vec;
188
189 map = bdata->node_bootmem_map;
190 idx = start - bdata->node_min_pfn;
191 vec = ~map[idx / BITS_PER_LONG];
192 /*
193 * If we have a properly aligned and fully unreserved
194 * BITS_PER_LONG block of pages in front of us, free
195 * it in one go.
196 */
197 if (IS_ALIGNED(start, BITS_PER_LONG) && vec == ~0UL) {
198 int order = ilog2(BITS_PER_LONG);
199
200 __free_pages_bootmem(pfn_to_page(start), order);
201 count += BITS_PER_LONG;
202 start += BITS_PER_LONG;
203 } else {
204 unsigned long off = 0;
205
206 while (vec && off < BITS_PER_LONG) {
207 if (vec & 1) {
208 page = pfn_to_page(start + off);
209 __free_pages_bootmem(page, 0);
210 count++;
211 }
212 vec >>= 1;
213 off++;
214 }
215 start = ALIGN(start + 1, BITS_PER_LONG);
216 }
217 }
218
219 page = virt_to_page(bdata->node_bootmem_map);
220 pages = bdata->node_low_pfn - bdata->node_min_pfn;
221 pages = bootmem_bootmap_pages(pages);
222 count += pages;
223 while (pages--)
224 __free_pages_bootmem(page++, 0);
225
226 bdebug("nid=%td released=%lx\n", bdata - bootmem_node_data, count);
227
228 return count;
229 }
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