Re: [PATCH 1/9] mm: move some functions from memory_hotplug.c topage_isolation.c

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:54:41 +0200
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Memory hotplug is a logic for making pages unused in the specified
> range of pfn. So, some of core logics can be used for other purpose
> as allocating a very large contigous memory block.
> 
> This patch moves some functions from mm/memory_hotplug.c to
> mm/page_isolation.c. This helps adding a function for large-alloc in
> page_isolation.c with memory-unplug technique.
> 
> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> [m.nazarewicz: reworded commit message]
> Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> [m.szyprowski: rebased and updated to Linux v3.0-rc1]
> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> ...
>
> +/*
> + * For migration.
> + */
> +
> +int test_pages_in_a_zone(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn);

This is a rather poor function name.  Given that we're now making it a
global identifier, perhaps we should give it a better name. 
pages_in_single_zone()?

> +unsigned long scan_lru_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
> +int do_migrate_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn);
>  
>
> ...
>
> --- a/mm/page_isolation.c
> +++ b/mm/page_isolation.c
> @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
>  #include <linux/mm.h>
>  #include <linux/page-isolation.h>
>  #include <linux/pageblock-flags.h>
> +#include <linux/memcontrol.h>
> +#include <linux/migrate.h>
> +#include <linux/mm_inline.h>
>  #include "internal.h"
>  
>  static inline struct page *
> @@ -139,3 +142,114 @@ int test_pages_isolated(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
>  	return ret ? 0 : -EBUSY;
>  }
> +
> +
> +/*
> + * Confirm all pages in a range [start, end) is belongs to the same zone.

It would be good to fix up that sentence while we're touching it. 
"Confirm that all pages ...  belong to the same zone".

>
> ...
>
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