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1 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 0b6a6d04300a..d187988e2b56 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -4489,6 +4489,26 @@ void __init set_pageblock_order(void)
#endif /* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE */
+static unsigned long __paginginit calc_memmap_size(unsigned long spanned_pages,
+ unsigned long present_pages)
+{
+ unsigned long pages = spanned_pages;
+
+ /*
+ * Provide a more accurate estimation if there are holes within
+ * the zone and SPARSEMEM is in use. If there are holes within the
+ * zone, each populated memory region may cost us one or two extra
+ * memmap pages due to alignment because memmap pages for each
+ * populated regions may not naturally algined on page boundary.
+ * So the (present_pages >> 4) heuristic is a tradeoff for that.
+ */
+ if (spanned_pages > present_pages + (present_pages >> 4) &&
+ IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM))
+ pages = present_pages;
+
+ return PAGE_ALIGN(pages * sizeof(struct page)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+}
+
/*
* Set up the zone data structures:
* - mark all pages reserved
@@ -4523,8 +4543,7 @@ static void __paginginit free_area_init_core(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
* is used by this zone for memmap. This affects the watermark
* and per-cpu initialisations
*/
- memmap_pages =
- PAGE_ALIGN(size * sizeof(struct page)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ memmap_pages = calc_memmap_size(size, realsize);
if (freesize >= memmap_pages) {
freesize -= memmap_pages;
if (memmap_pages)
@@ -4545,6 +4564,9 @@ static void __paginginit free_area_init_core(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
if (!is_highmem_idx(j))
nr_kernel_pages += freesize;
+ /* Charge for highmem memmap if there are enough kernel pages */
+ else if (nr_kernel_pages > memmap_pages * 2)
+ nr_kernel_pages -= memmap_pages;
nr_all_pages += freesize;
zone->spanned_pages = size;