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    mm/page_reporting: allow driver to specify reporting order · 9f849c6f
    Gavin Shan authored
    The page reporting order (threshold) is sticky to @pageblock_order by
    default.  The page reporting can never be triggered because the freeing
    page can't come up with a free area like that huge.  The situation becomes
    worse when the system memory becomes heavily fragmented.
    
    For example, the following configurations are used on ARM64 when 64KB base
    page size is enabled.  In this specific case, the page reporting won't be
    triggered until the freeing page comes up with a 512MB free area.  That's
    hard to be met, especially when the system memory becomes heavily
    fragmented.
    
       PAGE_SIZE:          64KB
       HPAGE_SIZE:         512MB
       pageblock_order:    13       (512MB)
       MAX_ORDER:          14
    
    This allows the drivers to specify the page reporting order when the page
    reporting device is registered.  It falls back to @pageblock_order if it's
    not specified by the driver.  The existing users (hv_balloon and
    virtio_balloon) don't specify it and @pageblock_order is still taken as
    their page reporting order.  So this shouldn't introduce any functional
    changes.
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210625014710.42954-4-gshan@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarGavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAlexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@fb.com>
    Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
    Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
    Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
    Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
    Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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