Re: [PATCH] slab: remove bootmem calling

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Fri May 29 2009 - 05:07:49 EST


On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 18:18 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > mem_init/kmem_cache_init is moved up
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > mm/page_cgroup.c | 12 ++++++++----
> > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_cgroup.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_cgroup.c
> > +++ linux-2.6/mm/page_cgroup.c
> > @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ static int __init alloc_node_page_cgroup
> > struct page_cgroup *base, *pc;
> > unsigned long table_size;
> > unsigned long start_pfn, nr_pages, index;
> > + struct page *page;
> > + unsigned int order;
> >
> > start_pfn = NODE_DATA(nid)->node_start_pfn;
> > nr_pages = NODE_DATA(nid)->node_spanned_pages;
> > @@ -55,11 +57,13 @@ static int __init alloc_node_page_cgroup
> > return 0;
> >
> > table_size = sizeof(struct page_cgroup) * nr_pages;
> > -
> > - base = __alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(NODE_DATA(nid),
> > - table_size, PAGE_SIZE, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS));
> > - if (!base)
> > + order = get_order(table_size);
> > + page = alloc_pages_node(nid, GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_ZERO, order);
> > + if (!page)
> > + page = alloc_pages_node(-1, GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_ZERO, order);
> > + if (!page)
> > return -ENOMEM;
> > + base = page_address(page);
>
> any good way to replace __alloc_bootmem_node that could take alignment?

Not that I am aware of. Where do you need that? This one looks ok to me
as page allocator obviously returns PAGE_SIZE aligned chunks.

Pekka

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