user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h, branch v4.19.14

mm/page_alloc: Introduce free_area_init_core_hotplug

2018-08-22T17:52:45Z

Currently, whenever a new node is created/re-used from the memhotplug path, we call free_area_init_node()->free_area_init_core(). But there is some code that we do not really need to run when we are coming from such path. free_area_init_core() performs the following actions: 1) Initializes pgdat internals, such as spinlock, waitqueues and more. 2) Account # nr_all_pages and # nr_kernel_pages. These values are used later on when creating hash tables. 3) Account number of managed_pages per zone, substracting dma_reserved and memmap pages. 4) Initializes some fields of the zone structure data 5) Calls init_currently_empty_zone to initialize all the freelists 6) Calls memmap_init to initialize all pages belonging to certain zone When called from memhotplug path, free_area_init_core() only performs actions #1 and #4. Action #2 is pointless as the zones do not have any pages since either the node was freed, or we are re-using it, eitherway all zones belonging to this node should have 0 pages. For the same reason, action #3 results always in manages_pages being 0. Action #5 and #6 are performed later on when onlining the pages: online_pages()->move_pfn_range_to_zone()->init_currently_empty_zone() online_pages()->move_pfn_range_to_zone()->memmap_init_zone() This patch does two things: First, moves the node/zone initializtion to their own function, so it allows us to create a small version of free_area_init_core, where we only perform: 1) Initialization of pgdat internals, such as spinlock, waitqueues and more 4) Initialization of some fields of the zone structure data These two functions are: pgdat_init_internals() and zone_init_internals(). The second thing this patch does, is to introduce free_area_init_core_hotplug(), the memhotplug version of free_area_init_core(): Currently, we call free_area_init_node() from the memhotplug path. In there, we set some pgdat's fields, and call calculate_node_totalpages(). calculate_node_totalpages() calculates the # of pages the node has. Since the node is either new, or we are re-using it, the zones belonging to this node should not have any pages, so there is no point to calculate this now. Actually, we re-set these values to 0 later on with the calls to: reset_node_managed_pages() reset_node_present_pages() The # of pages per node and the # of pages per zone will be calculated when onlining the pages: online_pages()->move_pfn_range()->move_pfn_range_to_zone()->resize_zone_range() online_pages()->move_pfn_range()->move_pfn_range_to_zone()->resize_pgdat_range() Also, since free_area_init_core/free_area_init_node will now only get called during early init, let us replace __paginginit with __init, so their code gets freed up. [osalvador@techadventures.net: fix section usage] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180731101752.GA473@techadventures.net [osalvador@suse.de: v6] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180801122348.21588-6-osalvador@techadventures.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180730101757.28058-5-osalvador@techadventures.net Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Pasha Tatashin Cc: Aaron Lu Cc: Dan Williams Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: move is_pageblock_removable_nolock() to mm/memory_hotplug.c

2018-06-08T00:34:36Z

is_pageblock_removable_nolock() is not used outside of mm/memory_hotplug.c. Move it next to unique caller is_mem_section_removable() and make it static. Remove prototype in to silence gcc warning (W=1): mm/page_alloc.c:7704:6: warning: no previous prototype for `is_pageblock_removable_nolock' [-Wmissing-prototypes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180509190001.24789-1-malat@debian.org Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre Suggested-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Revert "mm/cma: manage the memory of the CMA area by using the ZONE_MOVABLE"

2018-05-24T17:07:50Z

This reverts the following commits that change CMA design in MM. 3d2054ad8c2d ("ARM: CMA: avoid double mapping to the CMA area if CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y") 1d47a3ec09b5 ("mm/cma: remove ALLOC_CMA") bad8c6c0b114 ("mm/cma: manage the memory of the CMA area by using the ZONE_MOVABLE") Ville reported a following error on i386. Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x4, date = 2013-06-28 Initializing CPU#0 Initializing HighMem for node 0 (000377fe:00118000) Initializing Movable for node 0 (00000001:00118000) BUG: Bad page state in process swapper pfn:377fe page:f53effc0 count:0 mapcount:-127 mapping:00000000 index:0x0 flags: 0x80000000() raw: 80000000 00000000 00000000 ffffff80 00000000 00000100 00000200 00000001 page dumped because: nonzero mapcount Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.17.0-rc5-elk+ #145 Hardware name: Dell Inc. Latitude E5410/03VXMC, BIOS A15 07/11/2013 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x60/0x96 bad_page+0x9a/0x100 free_pages_check_bad+0x3f/0x60 free_pcppages_bulk+0x29d/0x5b0 free_unref_page_commit+0x84/0xb0 free_unref_page+0x3e/0x70 __free_pages+0x1d/0x20 free_highmem_page+0x19/0x40 add_highpages_with_active_regions+0xab/0xeb set_highmem_pages_init+0x66/0x73 mem_init+0x1b/0x1d7 start_kernel+0x17a/0x363 i386_start_kernel+0x95/0x99 startup_32_smp+0x164/0x168 The reason for this error is that the span of MOVABLE_ZONE is extended to whole node span for future CMA initialization, and, normal memory is wrongly freed here. I submitted the fix and it seems to work, but, another problem happened. It's so late time to fix the later problem so I decide to reverting the series. Reported-by: Ville Syrjälä Acked-by: Laura Abbott Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/cma: manage the memory of the CMA area by using the ZONE_MOVABLE

2018-04-11T17:28:32Z

Patch series "mm/cma: manage the memory of the CMA area by using the ZONE_MOVABLE", v2. 0. History This patchset is the follow-up of the discussion about the "Introduce ZONE_CMA (v7)" [1]. Please reference it if more information is needed. 1. What does this patch do? This patch changes the management way for the memory of the CMA area in the MM subsystem. Currently the memory of the CMA area is managed by the zone where their pfn is belong to. However, this approach has some problems since MM subsystem doesn't have enough logic to handle the situation that different characteristic memories are in a single zone. To solve this issue, this patch try to manage all the memory of the CMA area by using the MOVABLE zone. In MM subsystem's point of view, characteristic of the memory on the MOVABLE zone and the memory of the CMA area are the same. So, managing the memory of the CMA area by using the MOVABLE zone will not have any problem. 2. Motivation There are some problems with current approach. See following. Although these problem would not be inherent and it could be fixed without this conception change, it requires many hooks addition in various code path and it would be intrusive to core MM and would be really error-prone. Therefore, I try to solve them with this new approach. Anyway, following is the problems of the current implementation. o CMA memory utilization First, following is the freepage calculation logic in MM. - For movable allocation: freepage = total freepage - For unmovable allocation: freepage = total freepage - CMA freepage Freepages on the CMA area is used after the normal freepages in the zone where the memory of the CMA area is belong to are exhausted. At that moment that the number of the normal freepages is zero, so - For movable allocation: freepage = total freepage = CMA freepage - For unmovable allocation: freepage = 0 If unmovable allocation comes at this moment, allocation request would fail to pass the watermark check and reclaim is started. After reclaim, there would exist the normal freepages so freepages on the CMA areas would not be used. FYI, there is another attempt [2] trying to solve this problem in lkml. And, as far as I know, Qualcomm also has out-of-tree solution for this problem. Useless reclaim: There is no logic to distinguish CMA pages in the reclaim path. Hence, CMA page is reclaimed even if the system just needs the page that can be usable for the kernel allocation. Atomic allocation failure: This is also related to the fallback allocation policy for the memory of the CMA area. Consider the situation that the number of the normal freepages is *zero* since the bunch of the movable allocation requests come. Kswapd would not be woken up due to following freepage calculation logic. - For movable allocation: freepage = total freepage = CMA freepage If atomic unmovable allocation request comes at this moment, it would fails due to following logic. - For unmovable allocation: freepage = total freepage - CMA freepage = 0 It was reported by Aneesh [3]. Useless compaction: Usual high-order allocation request is unmovable allocation request and it cannot be served from the memory of the CMA area. In compaction, migration scanner try to migrate the page in the CMA area and make high-order page there. As mentioned above, it cannot be usable for the unmovable allocation request so it's just waste. 3. Current approach and new approach Current approach is that the memory of the CMA area is managed by the zone where their pfn is belong to. However, these memory should be distinguishable since they have a strong limitation. So, they are marked as MIGRATE_CMA in pageblock flag and handled specially. However, as mentioned in section 2, the MM subsystem doesn't have enough logic to deal with this special pageblock so many problems raised. New approach is that the memory of the CMA area is managed by the MOVABLE zone. MM already have enough logic to deal with special zone like as HIGHMEM and MOVABLE zone. So, managing the memory of the CMA area by the MOVABLE zone just naturally work well because constraints for the memory of the CMA area that the memory should always be migratable is the same with the constraint for the MOVABLE zone. There is one side-effect for the usability of the memory of the CMA area. The use of MOVABLE zone is only allowed for a request with GFP_HIGHMEM && GFP_MOVABLE so now the memory of the CMA area is also only allowed for this gfp flag. Before this patchset, a request with GFP_MOVABLE can use them. IMO, It would not be a big issue since most of GFP_MOVABLE request also has GFP_HIGHMEM flag. For example, file cache page and anonymous page. However, file cache page for blockdev file is an exception. Request for it has no GFP_HIGHMEM flag. There is pros and cons on this exception. In my experience, blockdev file cache pages are one of the top reason that causes cma_alloc() to fail temporarily. So, we can get more guarantee of cma_alloc() success by discarding this case. Note that there is no change in admin POV since this patchset is just for internal implementation change in MM subsystem. Just one minor difference for admin is that the memory stat for CMA area will be printed in the MOVABLE zone. That's all. 4. Result Following is the experimental result related to utilization problem. 8 CPUs, 1024 MB, VIRTUAL MACHINE make -j16 CMA area: 0 MB 512 MB Elapsed-time: 92.4 186.5 pswpin: 82 18647 pswpout: 160 69839 CMA : 0 MB 512 MB Elapsed-time: 93.1 93.4 pswpin: 84 46 pswpout: 183 92 akpm: "kernel test robot" reported a 26% improvement in vm-scalability.throughput: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180330012721.GA3845@yexl-desktop [1]: lkml.kernel.org/r/1491880640-9944-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com [2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/15/623 [3]: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg100562.html Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1512114786-5085-2-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Tested-by: Tony Lindgren Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Laura Abbott Cc: Marek Szyprowski Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Nazarewicz Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Russell King Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: disable interrupts while initializing deferred pages

2018-04-06T04:36:24Z

Vlastimil Babka reported about a window issue during which when deferred pages are initialized, and the current version of on-demand initialization is finished, allocations may fail. While this is highly unlikely scenario, since this kind of allocation request must be large, and must come from interrupt handler, we still want to cover it. We solve this by initializing deferred pages with interrupts disabled, and holding node_size_lock spin lock while pages in the node are being initialized. The on-demand deferred page initialization that comes later will use the same lock, and thus synchronize with deferred_init_memmap(). It is unlikely for threads that initialize deferred pages to be interrupted. They run soon after smp_init(), but before modules are initialized, and long before user space programs. This is why there is no adverse effect of having these threads running with interrupts disabled. [pasha.tatashin@oracle.com: v6] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313182355.17669-2-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180309220807.24961-2-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Steven Sistare Cc: Daniel Jordan Cc: Masayoshi Mizuma Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: AKASHI Takahiro Cc: Gioh Kim Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Yaowei Bai Cc: Wei Yang Cc: Paul Burton Cc: Miles Chen Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: pass the vmem_altmap to memmap_init_zone

2018-01-08T19:46:23Z

Pass the vmem_altmap two levels down instead of needing a lookup. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

mm: pass the vmem_altmap to vmemmap_free

2018-01-08T19:46:23Z

We can just pass this on instead of having to do a radix tree lookup without proper locking a few levels into the callchain. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

mm: pass the vmem_altmap to arch_remove_memory and __remove_pages

2018-01-08T19:46:23Z

We can just pass this on instead of having to do a radix tree lookup without proper locking 2 levels into the callchain. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

mm: pass the vmem_altmap to vmemmap_populate

2018-01-08T19:46:23Z

We can just pass this on instead of having to do a radix tree lookup without proper locking a few levels into the callchain. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

mm: pass the vmem_altmap to arch_add_memory and __add_pages

2018-01-08T19:46:23Z

We can just pass this on instead of having to do a radix tree lookup without proper locking 2 levels into the callchain. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Dan Williams