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Commit 0ac398b1 authored by Yunfeng Ye's avatar Yunfeng Ye Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: support memblock alloc on the exact node for sparse_buffer_init()

sparse_buffer_init() use memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw() to allocate memory
for page management structure, if memory allocation fails from specified
node, it will fall back to allocate from other nodes.

Normally, the page management structure will not exceed 2% of the total
memory, but a large continuous block of allocation is needed.  In most
cases, memory allocation from the specified node will succeed, but a
node memory become highly fragmented will fail.  we expect to allocate
memory base section rather than by allocating a large block of memory
from other NUMA nodes

Add memblock_alloc_exact_nid_raw() for this situation, which allocate
boot memory block on the exact node.  If a large contiguous block memory
allocate fail in sparse_buffer_init(), it will fall back to allocate
small block memory base section.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/66755ea7-ab10-8882-36fd-3e02b03775d5@huawei.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarYunfeng Ye <yeyunfeng@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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