[PATCH v5 02/36] mm/page_alloc: refactor build_node_zonelist() out of build_zonelists()

Gregory Price <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:33:56 -0400
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Extract per-node fallback-list construction into build_node_zonelist().

This lets use build zonelists from candidate nodemasks instead of just
the default N_MEMORY node state list.

No functional change: build_zonelists() builds the same FALLBACK list over
N_MEMORY with node_load updates as before.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <[email protected]>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index acf096f525f49..4c1ef84c02a3d 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5813,12 +5813,12 @@ int find_next_best_node_in(int node, nodemask_t *used_node_mask,
  * DMA zone, if any--but risks exhausting DMA zone.
  */
 static void build_zonelists_in_node_order(pg_data_t *pgdat, int *node_order,
-		unsigned nr_nodes)
+		unsigned int nr_nodes, int zlidx)
 {
 	struct zoneref *zonerefs;
 	int i;
 
-	zonerefs = pgdat->node_zonelists[ZONELIST_FALLBACK]._zonerefs;
+	zonerefs = pgdat->node_zonelists[zlidx]._zonerefs;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_nodes; i++) {
 		int nr_zones;
@@ -5847,26 +5847,28 @@ static void build_thisnode_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
 	zonerefs->zone_idx = 0;
 }
 
-static void build_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
+/*
+ * Build one node-ordered fallback list from a candidate nodemask.
+ * update_load round-robins node_load across equidistant nodes.
+ */
+static void build_node_zonelist(pg_data_t *pgdat, const nodemask_t *candidates,
+				int zlidx, bool update_load,
+				int *node_order, int *nr)
 {
-	static int node_order[MAX_NUMNODES];
-	int node, nr_nodes = 0;
 	nodemask_t used_mask = NODE_MASK_NONE;
-	int local_node, prev_node;
-
-	/* NUMA-aware ordering of nodes */
-	local_node = pgdat->node_id;
-	prev_node = local_node;
+	int local_node = pgdat->node_id;
+	int prev_node = local_node;
+	int node, nr_nodes = 0;
 
-	memset(node_order, 0, sizeof(node_order));
 	while ((node = find_next_best_node_in(local_node, &used_mask,
-					      &node_states[N_MEMORY])) >= 0) {
+					      candidates)) >= 0) {
 		/*
 		 * We don't want to pressure a particular node.
 		 * So adding penalty to the first node in same
 		 * distance group to make it round-robin.
 		 */
-		if (node_distance(local_node, node) !=
+		if (update_load &&
+		    node_distance(local_node, node) !=
 		    node_distance(local_node, prev_node))
 			node_load[node] += 1;
 
@@ -5874,8 +5876,22 @@ static void build_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
 		prev_node = node;
 	}
 
-	build_zonelists_in_node_order(pgdat, node_order, nr_nodes);
+	build_zonelists_in_node_order(pgdat, node_order, nr_nodes, zlidx);
+	*nr = nr_nodes;
+}
+
+static void build_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
+{
+	static int node_order[MAX_NUMNODES];
+	int local_node = pgdat->node_id;
+	int node, nr_nodes = 0;
+
+	memset(node_order, 0, sizeof(node_order));
+
+	build_node_zonelist(pgdat, &node_states[N_MEMORY], ZONELIST_FALLBACK,
+			    true, node_order, &nr_nodes);
 	build_thisnode_zonelists(pgdat);
+
 	pr_info("Fallback order for Node %d: ", local_node);
 	for (node = 0; node < nr_nodes; node++)
 		pr_cont("%d ", node_order[node]);
-- 
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