linux/mm
Bob Picco e984bb43f7 [PATCH] Align the node_mem_map endpoints to a MAX_ORDER boundary
Andy added code to buddy allocator which does not require the zone's
endpoints to be aligned to MAX_ORDER.  An issue is that the buddy allocator
requires the node_mem_map's endpoints to be MAX_ORDER aligned.  Otherwise
__page_find_buddy could compute a buddy not in node_mem_map for partial
MAX_ORDER regions at zone's endpoints.  page_is_buddy will detect that
these pages at endpoints are not PG_buddy (they were zeroed out by bootmem
allocator and not part of zone).  Of course the negative here is we could
waste a little memory but the positive is eliminating all the old checks
for zone boundary conditions.

SPARSEMEM won't encounter this issue because of MAX_ORDER size constraint
when SPARSEMEM is configured.  ia64 VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP doesn't need the logic
either because the holes and endpoints are handled differently.  This
leaves checking alloc_remap and other arches which privately allocate for
node_mem_map.

Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-21 12:59:22 -07:00
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Kconfig
Makefile
bootmem.c
fadvise.c
filemap.c
filemap.h
filemap_xip.c
fremap.c
highmem.c
hugetlb.c
internal.h
madvise.c
memory.c
memory_hotplug.c
mempolicy.c
mempool.c
migrate.c
mincore.c
mlock.c
mmap.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c
mremap.c
msync.c
nommu.c
oom_kill.c
page-writeback.c
page_alloc.c [PATCH] Align the node_mem_map endpoints to a MAX_ORDER boundary 2006-05-21 12:59:22 -07:00
page_io.c
pdflush.c
prio_tree.c
readahead.c
rmap.c
shmem.c
slab.c
slob.c
sparse.c
swap.c
swap_state.c
swapfile.c
thrash.c
tiny-shmem.c
truncate.c
util.c
vmalloc.c
vmscan.c