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In sparse_init(), two temporary pointer arrays, usemap_map and map_map are allocated with the size of NR_MEM_SECTIONS. They are used to store each memory section's usemap and mem map if marked as present. With the help of these two arrays, continuous memory chunk is allocated for usemap and memmap for memory sections on one node. This avoids too many memory fragmentations. Like below diagram, '1' indicates the present memory section, '0' means absent one. The number 'n' could be much smaller than NR_MEM_SECTIONS on most of systems. |1|1|1|1|0|0|0|0|1|1|0|0|...|1|0||1|0|...|1||0|1|...|0| ------------------------------------------------------- 0 1 2 3 4 5 i i+1 n-1 n If we fail to populate the page tables to map one section's memmap, its ->section_mem_map will be cleared finally to indicate that it's not present. After use, these two arrays will be released at the end of sparse_init(). In 4-level paging mode, each array costs 4M which can be ignorable. While in 5-level paging, they costs 256M each, 512M altogether. Kdump kernel Usually only reserves very few memory, e.g 256M. So, even thouth they are temporarily allocated, still not acceptable. In fact, there's no need to allocate them with the size of NR_MEM_SECTIONS. Since the ->section_mem_map clearing has been deferred to the last, the number of present memory sections are kept the same during sparse_init() until we finally clear out the memory section's ->section_mem_map if its usemap or memmap is not correctly handled. Thus in the middle whenever for_each_present_section_nr() loop is taken, the i-th present memory section is always the same one. Here only allocate usemap_map and map_map with the size of 'nr_present_sections'. For the i-th present memory section, install its usemap and memmap to usemap_map[i] and mam_map[i] during allocation. Then in the last for_each_present_section_nr() loop which clears the failed memory section's ->section_mem_map, fetch usemap and memmap from usemap_map[] and map_map[] array and set them into mem_section[] accordingly. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180628062857.29658-5-bhe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <Pavel.Tatashin@microsoft.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@techadventures.net> Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.