mm/page_alloc.c: initialize memmap of unavailable memory directly
Let's make sure that all memory holes are actually marked PageReserved(), that page_to_pfn() produces reliable results, and that these pages are not detected as "mmap" pages due to the mapcount. E.g., booting a x86-64 QEMU guest with 4160 MB: [ 0.010585] Early memory node ranges [ 0.010586] node 0: [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x000000000009efff] [ 0.010588] node 0: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x00000000bffdefff] [ 0.010589] node 0: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x0000000143ffffff] max_pfn is 0x144000. Before this change: [root@localhost ~]# ./page-types -r -a 0x144000, flags page-count MB symbolic-flags long-symbolic-flags 0x0000000000000800 16384 64 ___________M_______________________________ mmap total 16384 64 After this change: [root@localhost ~]# ./page-types -r -a 0x144000, flags page-count MB symbolic-flags long-symbolic-flags 0x0000000100000000 16384 64 ___________________________r_______________ reserved total 16384 64 IOW, especially the unavailable physical memory ("memory hole") in the last section would not get properly marked PageReserved() and is indicated to be "mmap" memory. Drop the trace of that function from include/linux/mm.h - nobody else needs it, and rename it accordingly. Note: The fake zone/node might not be covered by the zone/node span. This is not an urgent issue (for now, we had the same node/zone due to the zeroing). We'll need a clean way to mark memory holes (e.g., using a page type PageHole() if possible or a fake ZONE_INVALID) and eventually stop marking these memory holes PageReserved(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191211163201.17179-4-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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