[PATCH v6 4/5] mm: cma: use pageblock_order as the single alignment

Zi Yan zi.yan at sent.com
Wed Feb 23 15:30:36 AEDT 2022


From: Zi Yan <ziy at nvidia.com>

Now alloc_contig_range() works at pageblock granularity. Change CMA
allocation, which uses alloc_contig_range(), to use pageblock_order
alignment.

Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy at nvidia.com>
---
 include/linux/cma.h    | 4 ++--
 include/linux/mmzone.h | 5 +----
 mm/page_alloc.c        | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/cma.h b/include/linux/cma.h
index 90fd742fd1ef..22fa94231dfe 100644
--- a/include/linux/cma.h
+++ b/include/linux/cma.h
@@ -21,11 +21,11 @@
 #define CMA_MAX_NAME 64
 
 /*
- * TODO: once the buddy -- especially pageblock merging and alloc_contig_range()
+ *  the buddy -- especially pageblock merging and alloc_contig_range()
  * -- can deal with only some pageblocks of a higher-order page being
  *  MIGRATE_CMA, we can use pageblock_nr_pages.
  */
-#define CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_PAGES MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES
+#define CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_PAGES pageblock_nr_pages
 #define CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES (PAGE_SIZE * CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_PAGES)
 
 struct cma;
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 3fff6deca2c0..da38c8436493 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -54,10 +54,7 @@ enum migratetype {
 	 *
 	 * The way to use it is to change migratetype of a range of
 	 * pageblocks to MIGRATE_CMA which can be done by
-	 * __free_pageblock_cma() function.  What is important though
-	 * is that a range of pageblocks must be aligned to
-	 * MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES should biggest page be bigger than
-	 * a single pageblock.
+	 * __free_pageblock_cma() function.
 	 */
 	MIGRATE_CMA,
 #endif
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 038e044c5a80..90281e33e20a 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -9077,8 +9077,8 @@ int __alloc_contig_migrate_range(struct compact_control *cc,
  *			be either of the two.
  * @gfp_mask:	GFP mask to use during compaction
  *
- * The PFN range does not have to be pageblock or MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES
- * aligned.  The PFN range must belong to a single zone.
+ * The PFN range does not have to be pageblock aligned. The PFN range must
+ * belong to a single zone.
  *
  * The first thing this routine does is attempt to MIGRATE_ISOLATE all
  * pageblocks in the range.  Once isolated, the pageblocks should not
-- 
2.34.1



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