Re: [PATCH] do not count pages in holes with sparsemem

[Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>]

Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:34:06 +0200, "Franck Bui-Huu" <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> can we use pfn_valid() instead of page_is_ram() ? bootmem_init() and
>> sparse_init() have already been called so pfn_valid() should be safe
>> here....
> 
> We can, but we can get more precise value using page_is_ram().  The
> pfn_valid() returns true for _all_ pages on present section, and
> currently the section size is 256MB.

so your total pages of RAM in show_mem() is incorrect...

               if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
                        continue;
                page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
                total++;


I don't know SPARSEMEM a lot but is it allowed to have holes inside
a section ? Shouldn't we tune the section size to avoid holes inside
section ?

> 
>>> -       max_mapnr = num_physpages = highend_pfn;
>>> +       max_mapnr = highend_pfn;
>>>  #else
>>> -       max_mapnr = num_physpages = max_low_pfn;
>>> +       max_mapnr = max_low_pfn;
>> this is not always true, specially if FLATMEM set and your physical mem
>> do not start at 0.
> 
> Yes, and I think you are preparing a patch for these systems ;-)
> 

good point :)

                Franck