内存域水印值：min_free_kbytes

1、内存域水印值：需要为关键性分配保留的内存空间的最小值；该值保存在全局变量min_free_kbytes中

2、内存域水印值的计算由函数init_per_zone_pages_min完成：

/*
 * Initialise min_free_kbytes.
 *
 * For small machines we want it small (128k min).  For large machines
 * we want it large (64MB max).  But it is not linear, because network
 * bandwidth does not increase linearly with machine size.  We use
 *
 * 	min_free_kbytes = 4 * sqrt(lowmem_kbytes), for better accuracy:
 *	min_free_kbytes = sqrt(lowmem_kbytes * 16)
 *
 * which yields
 *
 * 16MB:	512k
 * 32MB:	724k
 * 64MB:	1024k
 * 128MB:	1448k
 * 256MB:	2048k
 * 512MB:	2896k
 * 1024MB:	4096k
 * 2048MB:	5792k
 * 4096MB:	8192k
 * 8192MB:	11584k
 * 16384MB:	16384k
 */
static int __init init_per_zone_pages_min(void)
{
	unsigned long lowmem_kbytes;

	lowmem_kbytes = nr_free_buffer_pages() * (PAGE_SIZE >> 10);

	min_free_kbytes = int_sqrt(lowmem_kbytes * 16);
	if (min_free_kbytes < 128)
		min_free_kbytes = 128;
	if (min_free_kbytes > 65536)
		min_free_kbytes = 65536;
	setup_per_zone_pages_min();
	setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve();
	return 0;
}

3、setup_per_zone_pages_min设置struct zone的pages_min、pages_low、pages_high成员

/**
 * setup_per_zone_pages_min - called when min_free_kbytes changes.
 *
 * Ensures that the pages_{min,low,high} values for each zone are set correctly
 * with respect to min_free_kbytes.
 */
void setup_per_zone_pages_min(void)
{
	unsigned long pages_min = min_free_kbytes >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
	unsigned long lowmem_pages = 0;
	struct zone *zone;
	unsigned long flags;

	/* Calculate total number of !ZONE_HIGHMEM pages */
	for_each_zone(zone) {
		if (!is_highmem(zone))
			lowmem_pages += zone->present_pages;
	}

	for_each_zone(zone) {
		u64 tmp;

		spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lru_lock, flags);
		tmp = (u64)pages_min * zone->present_pages;
		do_div(tmp, lowmem_pages);
		if (is_highmem(zone)) {
			/*
			 * __GFP_HIGH and PF_MEMALLOC allocations usually don't
			 * need highmem pages, so cap pages_min to a small
			 * value here.
			 *
			 * The (pages_high-pages_low) and (pages_low-pages_min)
			 * deltas controls asynch page reclaim, and so should
			 * not be capped for highmem.
			 */
			int min_pages;

			min_pages = zone->present_pages / 1024;
			if (min_pages < SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX)
				min_pages = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
			if (min_pages > 128)
				min_pages = 128;
			zone->pages_min = min_pages;
		} else {
			/*
			 * If it's a lowmem zone, reserve a number of pages
			 * proportionate to the zone's size.
			 */
			zone->pages_min = tmp;
		}

		zone->pages_low   = zone->pages_min + (tmp >> 2);
		zone->pages_high  = zone->pages_min + (tmp >> 1);
		setup_zone_migrate_reserve(zone);
		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lru_lock, flags);
	}

	/* update totalreserve_pages */
	calculate_totalreserve_pages();
}

4、setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve主要用作设置lowmem_reserve值

/*
 * setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve - called whenever
 *	sysctl_lower_zone_reserve_ratio changes.  Ensures that each zone
 *	has a correct pages reserved value, so an adequate number of
 *	pages are left in the zone after a successful __alloc_pages().
 */
static void setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve(void)
{
	struct pglist_data *pgdat;
	enum zone_type j, idx;

	for_each_online_pgdat(pgdat) {
		for (j = 0; j < MAX_NR_ZONES; j++) {
			struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + j;
			unsigned long present_pages = zone->present_pages;

			zone->lowmem_reserve[j] = 0;

			idx = j;
			while (idx) {
				struct zone *lower_zone;

				idx--;

				if (sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio[idx] < 1)
					sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio[idx] = 1;

				lower_zone = pgdat->node_zones + idx;
				lower_zone->lowmem_reserve[j] = present_pages /
					sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio[idx];
				present_pages += lower_zone->present_pages;
			}
		}
	}

	/* update totalreserve_pages */
	calculate_totalreserve_pages();
}

除数的默认值，对低端内存是256，对高端内存是32

/*
 * results with 256, 32 in the lowmem_reserve sysctl:
 *	1G machine -> (16M dma, 800M-16M normal, 1G-800M high)
 *	1G machine -> (16M dma, 784M normal, 224M high)
 *	NORMAL allocation will leave 784M/256 of ram reserved in the ZONE_DMA
 *	HIGHMEM allocation will leave 224M/32 of ram reserved in ZONE_NORMAL
 *	HIGHMEM allocation will (224M+784M)/256 of ram reserved in ZONE_DMA
 *
 * TBD: should special case ZONE_DMA32 machines here - in those we normally
 * don't need any ZONE_NORMAL reservation
 */
int sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio[MAX_NR_ZONES-1] = {
#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
	 256,
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
	 256,
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
	 32,
#endif
	 32,
};