When we release pages back during bootup:
Freeing 9d-100 pfn range: 99 pages freed
Freeing 9cf36-9d0d2 pfn range: 412 pages freed
Freeing 9f6bd-9f6bf pfn range: 2 pages freed
Freeing 9f714-9f7bf pfn range: 171 pages freed
Freeing 9f7e0-9f7ff pfn range: 31 pages freed
Freeing 9f800-100000 pfn range: 395264 pages freed
Released 395979 pages of unused memory
We then try to populate those pages back. In the P2M tree however
the space for those leafs must be reserved - as such we use extend_brk.
We reserve 8MB of _brk space, which means we can fit over
1048576 PFNs - which is more than we should ever need.
[v1: Made it 8MB of _brk space instead of 4MB per Jan's suggestion]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
(cherry picked from commit
99266871de5006ba7ad0bfece6bb283ede4094b9)
* boundary violation will require three middle nodes. */
RESERVE_BRK(p2m_mid_identity, PAGE_SIZE * 2 * 3);
+/* When we populate back during bootup, the amount of pages can vary. The
+ * max we have is seen is 395979, but that does not mean it can't be more.
+ * But some machines can have 3GB I/O holes even. So lets reserve enough
+ * for 4GB of I/O and E820 holes. */
+RESERVE_BRK(p2m_populated, PMD_SIZE * 4);
static inline unsigned p2m_top_index(unsigned long pfn)
{
BUG_ON(pfn >= MAX_P2M_PFN);