Balbir Singh wrote:

[snip]

>>>> +  for_each_online_node(node) {
>>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
>>>> +          zones = NODE_DATA(node)->node_zonelists[ZONE_HIGHMEM].zones;
>>>> +          if (do_try_to_free_pages(zones, sc.gfp_mask, &sc))
>>>> +                  return 1;
>>>> +#endif
>>>> +          zones = NODE_DATA(node)->node_zonelists[ZONE_NORMAL].zones;
>>>> +          if (do_try_to_free_pages(zones, sc.gfp_mask, &sc))
>>>> +                  return 1;
>>>> +  }
>>> Definitely need to handle ZONE_DMA32 and ZONE_DMA (some architectures put
>>> all memory into ZONE_DMA (or they used to))
> 
> Won't the node_zonelists[ZONE_NORMAL].zones contain all lower zones (including
> ZONE_DMA and ZONE_DMA32) from various nodes organized by cost?
> 
> I need to go lookup the node_zonelists creation.


OK, I've got it. The node's zonelist indexed with ZONE_XXX contains
the zone specified and all the zones beyond it. Thus shrinking from
ZONE_HIGHMEM (ZONE_NORMAL if the latter does not exist) is enough.

Thanks,
Pavel
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