openwrt-xburst/target/linux/goldfish/patches-2.6.30/0056-mm-Check-if-any-page-in-a-pageblock-is-reserved-bef.patch

From a4eb204a8029320c2dd748daf4f51fd48d337c3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf-8?q?Arve=20Hj=C3=B8nnev=C3=A5g?= <arve@android.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:27:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 056/134] mm: Check if any page in a pageblock is reserved before marking it MIGRATE_RESERVE

This fixes a problem where the first pageblock got marked MIGRATE_RESERVE even
though it only had a few free pages. This in turn caused no contiguous memory
to be reserved and frequent kswapd wakeups that emptied the caches to get more
contiguous memory.
---
 mm/page_alloc.c |   16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2570,6 +2570,20 @@ static inline unsigned long wait_table_b
 #define LONG_ALIGN(x) (((x)+(sizeof(long))-1)&~((sizeof(long))-1))
 
 /*
+ * Check if a pageblock contains reserved pages
+ */
+static int pageblock_is_reserved(unsigned long start_pfn)
+{
+	unsigned long end_pfn = start_pfn + pageblock_nr_pages;
+	unsigned long pfn;
+
+	for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn++)
+		if (PageReserved(pfn_to_page(pfn)))
+			return 1;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/*
  * Mark a number of pageblocks as MIGRATE_RESERVE. The number
  * of blocks reserved is based on zone->pages_min. The memory within the
  * reserve will tend to store contiguous free pages. Setting min_free_kbytes
@@ -2598,7 +2612,7 @@ static void setup_zone_migrate_reserve(s
 			continue;
 
 		/* Blocks with reserved pages will never free, skip them. */
-		if (PageReserved(page))
+		if (pageblock_is_reserved(pfn))
 			continue;
 
 		block_migratetype = get_pageblock_migratetype(page);