mm/page_alloc: tweak comments in has_unmovable_pages()
authorDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Tue, 13 Oct 2020 23:55:17 +0000 (16:55 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 14 Oct 2020 01:38:32 +0000 (18:38 -0700)
commitc9c510dc2964420038f8527125a2cd5d8fb79cb6
tree56083f5c25eae625922eb1ac19c978de074adfbd
parentbe4f1ae978ffe98cc95ec49ceb95386fb4474974
mm/page_alloc: tweak comments in has_unmovable_pages()

Patch series "mm / virtio-mem: support ZONE_MOVABLE", v5.

When introducing virtio-mem, the semantics of ZONE_MOVABLE were rather
unclear, which is why we special-cased ZONE_MOVABLE such that partially
plugged blocks would never end up in ZONE_MOVABLE.

Now that the semantics are much clearer (and are documented in patch #6),
let's support partially plugged memory blocks in ZONE_MOVABLE, allowing
partially plugged memory blocks to be online to ZONE_MOVABLE and also
unplugging from such memory blocks.  This avoids surprises when onlining
of memory blocks suddenly fails, just because they are not completely
populated by virtio-mem (yet).

This is especially helpful for testing, but also paves the way for
virtio-mem optimizations, allowing more memory to get reliably unplugged.

Cleanup has_unmovable_pages() and set_migratetype_isolate(), providing
better documentation of how ZONE_MOVABLE interacts with different kind of
unmovable pages (memory offlining vs.  alloc_contig_range()).

This patch (of 6):

Let's move the split comment regarding bootmem allocations and memory
holes, especially in the context of ZONE_MOVABLE, to the PageReserved()
check.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200816125333.7434-1-david@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200816125333.7434-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c