Account mem_map in VM holes accounting The VM needs to know about lost memory in zones to accurately balance dirty pages. This patch accounts mem_map in there too, which fixes a constant errror of a few percent. Also some other misc mappings and the kernel text itself are accounted too. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Index: linux/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c +++ linux/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ extern int swiotlb; extern char _stext[]; +static unsigned long dma_reserve __initdata; + DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mmu_gather, mmu_gathers); /* @@ -354,6 +356,21 @@ size_zones(unsigned long *z, unsigned lo w += z[i]; h[i] = e820_hole_size(s, w); } + + /* Add the space pace needed for mem_map to the holes too. */ + for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) + h[i] += (z[i] * sizeof(struct page)) / PAGE_SIZE; + + /* The 16MB DMA zone has the kernel and other misc mappings. + Account them too */ + if (h[ZONE_DMA]) { + h[ZONE_DMA] += dma_reserve; + if (h[ZONE_DMA] >= z[ZONE_DMA]) { + printk(KERN_WARNING + "Kernel too large and filling up ZONE_DMA?\n"); + h[ZONE_DMA] = z[ZONE_DMA]; + } + } } #ifndef CONFIG_NUMA @@ -510,6 +527,8 @@ void __init reserve_bootmem_generic(unsi #else reserve_bootmem(phys, len); #endif + if (phys+len <= MAX_DMA_PFN*PAGE_SIZE) + dma_reserve += len / PAGE_SIZE; } int kern_addr_valid(unsigned long addr)