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setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve() iterates through each zone setting zone->lowmem_reserve[j] = 0 (where j is the zone's index) then iterates backwards through all preceding zones, setting lower_zone->lowmem_reserve[j] = sum(managed pages of higher zones) / lowmem_reserve_ratio[idx] for each (where idx is the lower zone's index). If the lower zone has no managed pages or its ratio is 0 then all of its lowmem_reserve[] entries are effectively zeroed. As these arrays are only assigned here and all lowmem_reserve[] entries for index < this zone's index are implicitly assumed to be 0 (as these are specifically output in show_free_areas() and zoneinfo_show_print() for example) there is no need to additionally zero index == this zone's index too. This patch avoids zeroing unnecessarily. Rather than iterating through zones and setting lowmem_reserve[j] for each lower zone this patch reverse the process and populates each zone's lowmem_reserve[] values in ascending order. This clarifies what is going on especially in the case of zero managed pages or ratio which is now explicitly shown to clear these values. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201129162758.115907-1-lstoakes@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.