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[v7,09/14] xen/page_alloc: introduce page flag to stop buddy merging

Message ID 20240315105902.160047-10-carlo.nonato@minervasys.tech (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series Arm cache coloring | expand

Commit Message

Carlo Nonato March 15, 2024, 10:58 a.m. UTC 
Add a new PGC_no_buddy_merge flag that prevents the buddy algorithm in
free_heap_pages() from merging pages that have it set. As of now, only
PGC_static has this feature, but future work can extend it easier than
before.

Signed-off-by: Carlo Nonato <carlo.nonato@minervasys.tech>
---
v7:
- new patch
---
 xen/common/page_alloc.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Jan Beulich March 19, 2024, 3:49 p.m. UTC | #1 
On 15.03.2024 11:58, Carlo Nonato wrote:
> Add a new PGC_no_buddy_merge flag that prevents the buddy algorithm in
> free_heap_pages() from merging pages that have it set. As of now, only
> PGC_static has this feature, but future work can extend it easier than
> before.
> 

Suggested-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

> Signed-off-by: Carlo Nonato <carlo.nonato@minervasys.tech>

Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
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Patch

diff --git a/xen/common/page_alloc.c b/xen/common/page_alloc.c
index 6a98d9013f..3adea713b7 100644
--- a/xen/common/page_alloc.c
+++ b/xen/common/page_alloc.c
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ 
 #endif
 
 #define PGC_preserved (PGC_extra | PGC_static)
+#define PGC_no_buddy_merge PGC_static
 
 #ifndef PGT_TYPE_INFO_INITIALIZER
 #define PGT_TYPE_INFO_INITIALIZER 0
@@ -1504,7 +1505,7 @@  static void free_heap_pages(
             /* Merge with predecessor block? */
             if ( !mfn_valid(page_to_mfn(predecessor)) ||
                  !page_state_is(predecessor, free) ||
-                 (predecessor->count_info & PGC_static) ||
+                 (predecessor->count_info & PGC_no_buddy_merge) ||
                  (PFN_ORDER(predecessor) != order) ||
                  (page_to_nid(predecessor) != node) )
                 break;
@@ -1528,7 +1529,7 @@  static void free_heap_pages(
             /* Merge with successor block? */
             if ( !mfn_valid(page_to_mfn(successor)) ||
                  !page_state_is(successor, free) ||
-                 (successor->count_info & PGC_static) ||
+                 (successor->count_info & PGC_no_buddy_merge) ||
                  (PFN_ORDER(successor) != order) ||
                  (page_to_nid(successor) != node) )
                 break;