Here is the cleaned version of the patch. Dhaval is testing it.
quicklists: Only consider memory that can be used with GFP_KERNEL
Quicklists calculates the size of the quicklists based on the number
of free pages. This must be the number of free pages that can be
allocated with GFP_KERNEL. node_page_state() includes the pages in
ZONE_HIGHMEM and ZONE_MOVABLE which may lead the quicklists to
become too large causing OOM.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Index: linux-2.6/mm/quicklist.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/quicklist.c 2008-01-07 10:38:13.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6/mm/quicklist.c 2008-01-07 10:38:44.000000000 -0800
@@ -26,9 +26,17 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct quicklist, quickli
static unsigned long max_pages(unsigned long min_pages)
{
unsigned long node_free_pages, max;
+ struct zone *zones = NODE_DATA(numa_node_id())->node_zones;
+
+ node_free_pages =
+#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
+ zone_page_state(&zones[ZONE_DMA], NR_FREE_PAGES) +
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
+ zone_page_state(&zones[ZONE_DMA32], NR_FREE_PAGES) +
+#endif
+ zone_page_state(&zones[ZONE_NORMAL], NR_FREE_PAGES);
- node_free_pages = node_page_state(numa_node_id(),
- NR_FREE_PAGES);
max = node_free_pages / FRACTION_OF_NODE_MEM;
return max(max, min_pages);
}
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