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[v3,0/5] mm: Enable CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES by default for NUMA

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Hoan Tran March 28, 2020, 6:31 p.m. UTC
In NUMA layout which nodes have memory ranges that span across other nodes,
the mm driver can detect the memory node id incorrectly.

For example, with layout below
Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx 0000 xxxx
Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 xxxx 1111

Note:
 - Memory from low to high
 - 0/1: Node id
 - x: Invalid memory of a node

When mm probes the memory map, without CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
config, mm only checks the memory validity but not the node id.
Because of that, Node 1 also detects the memory from node 0 as below
when it scans from the start address to the end address of node 1.

Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx xxxx xxxx
Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 1111 1111

This layout could occur on any architecture. Most of them enables
this config by default with CONFIG_NUMA. This patch, by default, enables
CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES or uses early_pfn_in_nid() for NUMA.

v3:
 * Revise the patch description

V2:
 * Revise the patch description

Hoan Tran (5):
  mm: Enable CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES by default for NUMA
  powerpc: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
  x86: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
  sparc: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
  s390: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES

 arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 9 ---------
 arch/s390/Kconfig    | 8 --------
 arch/sparc/Kconfig   | 9 ---------
 arch/x86/Kconfig     | 9 ---------
 mm/page_alloc.c      | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 36 deletions(-)

Comments

Baoquan He March 29, 2020, 12:19 a.m. UTC | #1
On 03/28/20 at 11:31am, Hoan Tran wrote:
> In NUMA layout which nodes have memory ranges that span across other nodes,
> the mm driver can detect the memory node id incorrectly.
> 
> For example, with layout below
> Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx 0000 xxxx
> Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 xxxx 1111

Sorry, I read this example several times, but still don't get what it
means. Can it be given with real hex number address as an exmaple? I
mean just using the memory layout you have seen from some systems. The
change looks interesting though.

> 
> Note:
>  - Memory from low to high
>  - 0/1: Node id
>  - x: Invalid memory of a node
> 
> When mm probes the memory map, without CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> config, mm only checks the memory validity but not the node id.
> Because of that, Node 1 also detects the memory from node 0 as below
> when it scans from the start address to the end address of node 1.
> 
> Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx xxxx xxxx
> Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 1111 1111
> 
> This layout could occur on any architecture. Most of them enables
> this config by default with CONFIG_NUMA. This patch, by default, enables
> CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES or uses early_pfn_in_nid() for NUMA.
> 
> v3:
>  * Revise the patch description
> 
> V2:
>  * Revise the patch description
> 
> Hoan Tran (5):
>   mm: Enable CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES by default for NUMA
>   powerpc: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
>   x86: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
>   sparc: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
>   s390: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> 
>  arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 9 ---------
>  arch/s390/Kconfig    | 8 --------
>  arch/sparc/Kconfig   | 9 ---------
>  arch/x86/Kconfig     | 9 ---------
>  mm/page_alloc.c      | 2 +-
>  5 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 36 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 
>
Michal Hocko March 30, 2020, 7:42 a.m. UTC | #2
On Sat 28-03-20 11:31:17, Hoan Tran wrote:
> In NUMA layout which nodes have memory ranges that span across other nodes,
> the mm driver can detect the memory node id incorrectly.
> 
> For example, with layout below
> Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx 0000 xxxx
> Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 xxxx 1111
> 
> Note:
>  - Memory from low to high
>  - 0/1: Node id
>  - x: Invalid memory of a node
> 
> When mm probes the memory map, without CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> config, mm only checks the memory validity but not the node id.
> Because of that, Node 1 also detects the memory from node 0 as below
> when it scans from the start address to the end address of node 1.
> 
> Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx xxxx xxxx
> Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 1111 1111
> 
> This layout could occur on any architecture. Most of them enables
> this config by default with CONFIG_NUMA. This patch, by default, enables
> CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES or uses early_pfn_in_nid() for NUMA.

I am not opposed to this at all. It reduces the config space and that is
a good thing on its own. The history has shown that meory layout might
be really wild wrt NUMA. The config is only used for early_pfn_in_nid
which is clearly an overkill.

Your description doesn't really explain why this is safe though. The
history of this config is somehow messy, though. Mike has tried
to remove it a94b3ab7eab4 ("[PATCH] mm: remove arch independent
NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES") just to be reintroduced by 7516795739bd
("[PATCH] Reintroduce NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES for powerpc") without any
reasoning what so ever. This doesn't make it really easy see whether
reasons for reintroduction are still there. Maybe there are some subtle
dependencies. I do not see any TBH but that might be burried deep in an
arch specific code.

> v3:
>  * Revise the patch description
> 
> V2:
>  * Revise the patch description
> 
> Hoan Tran (5):
>   mm: Enable CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES by default for NUMA
>   powerpc: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
>   x86: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
>   sparc: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
>   s390: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> 
>  arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 9 ---------
>  arch/s390/Kconfig    | 8 --------
>  arch/sparc/Kconfig   | 9 ---------
>  arch/x86/Kconfig     | 9 ---------
>  mm/page_alloc.c      | 2 +-
>  5 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 36 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
>
Michal Hocko March 30, 2020, 7:44 a.m. UTC | #3
On Sun 29-03-20 08:19:24, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 03/28/20 at 11:31am, Hoan Tran wrote:
> > In NUMA layout which nodes have memory ranges that span across other nodes,
> > the mm driver can detect the memory node id incorrectly.
> > 
> > For example, with layout below
> > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx 0000 xxxx
> > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 xxxx 1111
> 
> Sorry, I read this example several times, but still don't get what it
> means. Can it be given with real hex number address as an exmaple? I
> mean just using the memory layout you have seen from some systems. The
> change looks interesting though.

Does this make it more clear?
           physical address range and its node associaion
         [0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1]
Baoquan He March 30, 2020, 8:04 a.m. UTC | #4
On 03/30/20 at 09:44am, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Sun 29-03-20 08:19:24, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 03/28/20 at 11:31am, Hoan Tran wrote:
> > > In NUMA layout which nodes have memory ranges that span across other nodes,
> > > the mm driver can detect the memory node id incorrectly.
> > > 
> > > For example, with layout below
> > > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx 0000 xxxx
> > > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 xxxx 1111
> > 
> > Sorry, I read this example several times, but still don't get what it
> > means. Can it be given with real hex number address as an exmaple? I
> > mean just using the memory layout you have seen from some systems. The
> > change looks interesting though.
> 
> Does this make it more clear?
>            physical address range and its node associaion
>          [0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1]

I later read it again, have got what Hoan is trying to say, thanks.

I think the change in this patchset makes sense, still have some concern
though, let me add comment in other thread.
Baoquan He March 30, 2020, 8:16 a.m. UTC | #5
On 03/30/20 at 09:42am, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Sat 28-03-20 11:31:17, Hoan Tran wrote:
> > In NUMA layout which nodes have memory ranges that span across other nodes,
> > the mm driver can detect the memory node id incorrectly.
> > 
> > For example, with layout below
> > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx 0000 xxxx
> > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 xxxx 1111
> > 
> > Note:
> >  - Memory from low to high
> >  - 0/1: Node id
> >  - x: Invalid memory of a node
> > 
> > When mm probes the memory map, without CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> > config, mm only checks the memory validity but not the node id.
> > Because of that, Node 1 also detects the memory from node 0 as below
> > when it scans from the start address to the end address of node 1.
> > 
> > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx xxxx xxxx
> > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 1111 1111
> > 
> > This layout could occur on any architecture. Most of them enables
> > this config by default with CONFIG_NUMA. This patch, by default, enables
> > CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES or uses early_pfn_in_nid() for NUMA.
> 
> I am not opposed to this at all. It reduces the config space and that is
> a good thing on its own. The history has shown that meory layout might
> be really wild wrt NUMA. The config is only used for early_pfn_in_nid
> which is clearly an overkill.
> 
> Your description doesn't really explain why this is safe though. The
> history of this config is somehow messy, though. Mike has tried
> to remove it a94b3ab7eab4 ("[PATCH] mm: remove arch independent
> NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES") just to be reintroduced by 7516795739bd
> ("[PATCH] Reintroduce NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES for powerpc") without any
> reasoning what so ever. This doesn't make it really easy see whether
> reasons for reintroduction are still there. Maybe there are some subtle
> dependencies. I do not see any TBH but that might be burried deep in an
> arch specific code.

Yeah, since early_pfnnid_cache was added, we do not need worry about the
performance. But when I read the mem init code on x86 again, I do see there
are codes to handle the node overlapping, e.g in numa_cleanup_meminfo(),
when store node id into memblock. But the thing is if we have
encountered the node overlapping, we just return ahead of time, leave
something uninitialized. I am wondering if the system with node
overlapping can still run heathily.

> 
> > v3:
> >  * Revise the patch description
> > 
> > V2:
> >  * Revise the patch description
> > 
> > Hoan Tran (5):
> >   mm: Enable CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES by default for NUMA
> >   powerpc: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> >   x86: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> >   sparc: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> >   s390: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> > 
> >  arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 9 ---------
> >  arch/s390/Kconfig    | 8 --------
> >  arch/sparc/Kconfig   | 9 ---------
> >  arch/x86/Kconfig     | 9 ---------
> >  mm/page_alloc.c      | 2 +-
> >  5 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 36 deletions(-)
> > 
> > -- 
> > 1.8.3.1
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
>
Baoquan He March 30, 2020, 8:28 a.m. UTC | #6
On 03/30/20 at 04:16pm, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 03/30/20 at 09:42am, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Sat 28-03-20 11:31:17, Hoan Tran wrote:
> > > In NUMA layout which nodes have memory ranges that span across other nodes,
> > > the mm driver can detect the memory node id incorrectly.
> > > 
> > > For example, with layout below
> > > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx 0000 xxxx
> > > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 xxxx 1111
> > > 
> > > Note:
> > >  - Memory from low to high
> > >  - 0/1: Node id
> > >  - x: Invalid memory of a node
> > > 
> > > When mm probes the memory map, without CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> > > config, mm only checks the memory validity but not the node id.
> > > Because of that, Node 1 also detects the memory from node 0 as below
> > > when it scans from the start address to the end address of node 1.
> > > 
> > > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx xxxx xxxx
> > > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 1111 1111
> > > 
> > > This layout could occur on any architecture. Most of them enables
> > > this config by default with CONFIG_NUMA. This patch, by default, enables
> > > CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES or uses early_pfn_in_nid() for NUMA.
> > 
> > I am not opposed to this at all. It reduces the config space and that is
> > a good thing on its own. The history has shown that meory layout might
> > be really wild wrt NUMA. The config is only used for early_pfn_in_nid
> > which is clearly an overkill.
> > 
> > Your description doesn't really explain why this is safe though. The
> > history of this config is somehow messy, though. Mike has tried
> > to remove it a94b3ab7eab4 ("[PATCH] mm: remove arch independent
> > NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES") just to be reintroduced by 7516795739bd
> > ("[PATCH] Reintroduce NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES for powerpc") without any
> > reasoning what so ever. This doesn't make it really easy see whether
> > reasons for reintroduction are still there. Maybe there are some subtle
> > dependencies. I do not see any TBH but that might be burried deep in an
> > arch specific code.
> 
> Yeah, since early_pfnnid_cache was added, we do not need worry about the
> performance. But when I read the mem init code on x86 again, I do see there
> are codes to handle the node overlapping, e.g in numa_cleanup_meminfo(),
> when store node id into memblock. But the thing is if we have
> encountered the node overlapping, we just return ahead of time, leave
> something uninitialized. I am wondering if the system with node
> overlapping can still run heathily.

Ok, I didn't read code carefully. That is handling case where memblock
with different node id overlap, it needs return. In the example
Hoan gave, it has no problem, system can run well. Please ignore above
comment.
Mike Rapoport March 30, 2020, 9:21 a.m. UTC | #7
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 09:42:46AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Sat 28-03-20 11:31:17, Hoan Tran wrote:
> > In NUMA layout which nodes have memory ranges that span across other nodes,
> > the mm driver can detect the memory node id incorrectly.
> > 
> > For example, with layout below
> > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx 0000 xxxx
> > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 xxxx 1111
> > 
> > Note:
> >  - Memory from low to high
> >  - 0/1: Node id
> >  - x: Invalid memory of a node
> > 
> > When mm probes the memory map, without CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> > config, mm only checks the memory validity but not the node id.
> > Because of that, Node 1 also detects the memory from node 0 as below
> > when it scans from the start address to the end address of node 1.
> > 
> > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx xxxx xxxx
> > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 1111 1111
> > 
> > This layout could occur on any architecture. Most of them enables
> > this config by default with CONFIG_NUMA. This patch, by default, enables
> > CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES or uses early_pfn_in_nid() for NUMA.
> 
> I am not opposed to this at all. It reduces the config space and that is
> a good thing on its own. The history has shown that meory layout might
> be really wild wrt NUMA. The config is only used for early_pfn_in_nid
> which is clearly an overkill.
> 
> Your description doesn't really explain why this is safe though. The
> history of this config is somehow messy, though. Mike has tried
> to remove it a94b3ab7eab4 ("[PATCH] mm: remove arch independent
> NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES") just to be reintroduced by 7516795739bd
> ("[PATCH] Reintroduce NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES for powerpc") without any
> reasoning what so ever. This doesn't make it really easy see whether
> reasons for reintroduction are still there. Maybe there are some subtle
> dependencies. I do not see any TBH but that might be burried deep in an
> arch specific code.

Well, back then early_pfn_in_nid() was arch-dependant, today everyone
except ia64 rely on HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP. So, if the memblock node map
is correct, that using CONFIG_NUMA instead of CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
would only mean that early_pfn_in_nid() will cost several cycles more on
architectures that didn't select CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES (i.e. arm64
and sh).
Agian, ia64 is an exception here.


> > v3:
> >  * Revise the patch description
> > 
> > V2:
> >  * Revise the patch description
> > 
> > Hoan Tran (5):
> >   mm: Enable CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES by default for NUMA
> >   powerpc: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> >   x86: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> >   sparc: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> >   s390: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> > 
> >  arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 9 ---------
> >  arch/s390/Kconfig    | 8 --------
> >  arch/sparc/Kconfig   | 9 ---------
> >  arch/x86/Kconfig     | 9 ---------
> >  mm/page_alloc.c      | 2 +-
> >  5 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 36 deletions(-)
> > 
> > -- 
> > 1.8.3.1
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
Baoquan He March 30, 2020, 9:26 a.m. UTC | #8
On 03/30/20 at 09:42am, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Sat 28-03-20 11:31:17, Hoan Tran wrote:
> > In NUMA layout which nodes have memory ranges that span across other nodes,
> > the mm driver can detect the memory node id incorrectly.
> > 
> > For example, with layout below
> > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx 0000 xxxx
> > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 xxxx 1111
> > 
> > Note:
> >  - Memory from low to high
> >  - 0/1: Node id
> >  - x: Invalid memory of a node
> > 
> > When mm probes the memory map, without CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> > config, mm only checks the memory validity but not the node id.
> > Because of that, Node 1 also detects the memory from node 0 as below
> > when it scans from the start address to the end address of node 1.
> > 
> > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx xxxx xxxx
> > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 1111 1111
> > 
> > This layout could occur on any architecture. Most of them enables
> > this config by default with CONFIG_NUMA. This patch, by default, enables
> > CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES or uses early_pfn_in_nid() for NUMA.
> 
> I am not opposed to this at all. It reduces the config space and that is
> a good thing on its own. The history has shown that meory layout might
> be really wild wrt NUMA. The config is only used for early_pfn_in_nid
> which is clearly an overkill.
> 
> Your description doesn't really explain why this is safe though. The
> history of this config is somehow messy, though. Mike has tried
> to remove it a94b3ab7eab4 ("[PATCH] mm: remove arch independent
> NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES") just to be reintroduced by 7516795739bd
> ("[PATCH] Reintroduce NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES for powerpc") without any
> reasoning what so ever. This doesn't make it really easy see whether
> reasons for reintroduction are still there. Maybe there are some subtle
> dependencies. I do not see any TBH but that might be burried deep in an
> arch specific code.

Since on all ARCHes NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES has dependency on NUMA,
replacing it with CONFIG_NUMA seems no risk. Just for those ARCHes which
don't have CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES before, it involves a tiny
performance degradation. Besides, s390 has removed support of
NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES already.

commit 701dc81e7412daaf3c5bf4bc55d35c8b1525112a
Author: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 19 13:29:15 2020 +0100

    s390/mm: remove fake numa support

> 
> > v3:
> >  * Revise the patch description
> > 
> > V2:
> >  * Revise the patch description
> > 
> > Hoan Tran (5):
> >   mm: Enable CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES by default for NUMA
> >   powerpc: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> >   x86: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> >   sparc: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> >   s390: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> > 
> >  arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 9 ---------
> >  arch/s390/Kconfig    | 8 --------
> >  arch/sparc/Kconfig   | 9 ---------
> >  arch/x86/Kconfig     | 9 ---------
> >  mm/page_alloc.c      | 2 +-
> >  5 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 36 deletions(-)
> > 
> > -- 
> > 1.8.3.1
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
>
Michal Hocko March 30, 2020, 9:58 a.m. UTC | #9
On Mon 30-03-20 12:21:27, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 09:42:46AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Sat 28-03-20 11:31:17, Hoan Tran wrote:
> > > In NUMA layout which nodes have memory ranges that span across other nodes,
> > > the mm driver can detect the memory node id incorrectly.
> > > 
> > > For example, with layout below
> > > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx 0000 xxxx
> > > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 xxxx 1111
> > > 
> > > Note:
> > >  - Memory from low to high
> > >  - 0/1: Node id
> > >  - x: Invalid memory of a node
> > > 
> > > When mm probes the memory map, without CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> > > config, mm only checks the memory validity but not the node id.
> > > Because of that, Node 1 also detects the memory from node 0 as below
> > > when it scans from the start address to the end address of node 1.
> > > 
> > > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx xxxx xxxx
> > > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 1111 1111
> > > 
> > > This layout could occur on any architecture. Most of them enables
> > > this config by default with CONFIG_NUMA. This patch, by default, enables
> > > CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES or uses early_pfn_in_nid() for NUMA.
> > 
> > I am not opposed to this at all. It reduces the config space and that is
> > a good thing on its own. The history has shown that meory layout might
> > be really wild wrt NUMA. The config is only used for early_pfn_in_nid
> > which is clearly an overkill.
> > 
> > Your description doesn't really explain why this is safe though. The
> > history of this config is somehow messy, though. Mike has tried
> > to remove it a94b3ab7eab4 ("[PATCH] mm: remove arch independent
> > NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES") just to be reintroduced by 7516795739bd
> > ("[PATCH] Reintroduce NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES for powerpc") without any
> > reasoning what so ever. This doesn't make it really easy see whether
> > reasons for reintroduction are still there. Maybe there are some subtle
> > dependencies. I do not see any TBH but that might be burried deep in an
> > arch specific code.
> 
> Well, back then early_pfn_in_nid() was arch-dependant, today everyone
> except ia64 rely on HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP.

What would it take to make ia64 use HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP? I would
really love to see that thing go away. It is causing problems when
people try to use memblock api.

> So, if the memblock node map
> is correct, that using CONFIG_NUMA instead of CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> would only mean that early_pfn_in_nid() will cost several cycles more on
> architectures that didn't select CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES (i.e. arm64
> and sh).

Do we have any idea on how much of an overhead that is? Because this is
per each pfn so it can accumulate a lot! 

> Agian, ia64 is an exception here.

Thanks for the clarification!
Mike Rapoport March 30, 2020, 10:26 a.m. UTC | #10
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 11:58:43AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 30-03-20 12:21:27, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 09:42:46AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Sat 28-03-20 11:31:17, Hoan Tran wrote:
> > > > In NUMA layout which nodes have memory ranges that span across other nodes,
> > > > the mm driver can detect the memory node id incorrectly.
> > > > 
> > > > For example, with layout below
> > > > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx 0000 xxxx
> > > > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 xxxx 1111
> > > > 
> > > > Note:
> > > >  - Memory from low to high
> > > >  - 0/1: Node id
> > > >  - x: Invalid memory of a node
> > > > 
> > > > When mm probes the memory map, without CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> > > > config, mm only checks the memory validity but not the node id.
> > > > Because of that, Node 1 also detects the memory from node 0 as below
> > > > when it scans from the start address to the end address of node 1.
> > > > 
> > > > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx xxxx xxxx
> > > > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 1111 1111
> > > > 
> > > > This layout could occur on any architecture. Most of them enables
> > > > this config by default with CONFIG_NUMA. This patch, by default, enables
> > > > CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES or uses early_pfn_in_nid() for NUMA.
> > > 
> > > I am not opposed to this at all. It reduces the config space and that is
> > > a good thing on its own. The history has shown that meory layout might
> > > be really wild wrt NUMA. The config is only used for early_pfn_in_nid
> > > which is clearly an overkill.
> > > 
> > > Your description doesn't really explain why this is safe though. The
> > > history of this config is somehow messy, though. Mike has tried
> > > to remove it a94b3ab7eab4 ("[PATCH] mm: remove arch independent
> > > NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES") just to be reintroduced by 7516795739bd
> > > ("[PATCH] Reintroduce NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES for powerpc") without any
> > > reasoning what so ever. This doesn't make it really easy see whether
> > > reasons for reintroduction are still there. Maybe there are some subtle
> > > dependencies. I do not see any TBH but that might be burried deep in an
> > > arch specific code.
> > 
> > Well, back then early_pfn_in_nid() was arch-dependant, today everyone
> > except ia64 rely on HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP.
> 
> What would it take to make ia64 use HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP? I would
> really love to see that thing go away. It is causing problems when
> people try to use memblock api.

Sorry, my bad, ia64 does not have NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES, but it does have
HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP.

I remember I've tried killing HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP, but I've run into
some problems and then I've got distracted. I too would like to have
HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP go away, maybe I'll take another look at it.
 
> > So, if the memblock node map
> > is correct, that using CONFIG_NUMA instead of CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> > would only mean that early_pfn_in_nid() will cost several cycles more on
> > architectures that didn't select CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES (i.e. arm64
> > and sh).
> 
> Do we have any idea on how much of an overhead that is? Because this is
> per each pfn so it can accumulate a lot! 

It's O(log(N)) where N is the amount of the memory banks (ie. memblock.memory.cnt)
 
> > Agian, ia64 is an exception here.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification!
> -- 
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
Baoquan He March 30, 2020, 10:43 a.m. UTC | #11
On 03/30/20 at 01:26pm, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 11:58:43AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Mon 30-03-20 12:21:27, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 09:42:46AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > > On Sat 28-03-20 11:31:17, Hoan Tran wrote:
> > > > > In NUMA layout which nodes have memory ranges that span across other nodes,
> > > > > the mm driver can detect the memory node id incorrectly.
> > > > > 
> > > > > For example, with layout below
> > > > > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx 0000 xxxx
> > > > > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 xxxx 1111
> > > > > 
> > > > > Note:
> > > > >  - Memory from low to high
> > > > >  - 0/1: Node id
> > > > >  - x: Invalid memory of a node
> > > > > 
> > > > > When mm probes the memory map, without CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> > > > > config, mm only checks the memory validity but not the node id.
> > > > > Because of that, Node 1 also detects the memory from node 0 as below
> > > > > when it scans from the start address to the end address of node 1.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx xxxx xxxx
> > > > > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 1111 1111
> > > > > 
> > > > > This layout could occur on any architecture. Most of them enables
> > > > > this config by default with CONFIG_NUMA. This patch, by default, enables
> > > > > CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES or uses early_pfn_in_nid() for NUMA.
> > > > 
> > > > I am not opposed to this at all. It reduces the config space and that is
> > > > a good thing on its own. The history has shown that meory layout might
> > > > be really wild wrt NUMA. The config is only used for early_pfn_in_nid
> > > > which is clearly an overkill.
> > > > 
> > > > Your description doesn't really explain why this is safe though. The
> > > > history of this config is somehow messy, though. Mike has tried
> > > > to remove it a94b3ab7eab4 ("[PATCH] mm: remove arch independent
> > > > NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES") just to be reintroduced by 7516795739bd
> > > > ("[PATCH] Reintroduce NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES for powerpc") without any
> > > > reasoning what so ever. This doesn't make it really easy see whether
> > > > reasons for reintroduction are still there. Maybe there are some subtle
> > > > dependencies. I do not see any TBH but that might be burried deep in an
> > > > arch specific code.
> > > 
> > > Well, back then early_pfn_in_nid() was arch-dependant, today everyone
> > > except ia64 rely on HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP.
> > 
> > What would it take to make ia64 use HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP? I would
> > really love to see that thing go away. It is causing problems when
> > people try to use memblock api.
> 
> Sorry, my bad, ia64 does not have NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES, but it does have
> HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP.
> 
> I remember I've tried killing HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP, but I've run into
> some problems and then I've got distracted. I too would like to have
> HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP go away, maybe I'll take another look at it.
>  
> > > So, if the memblock node map
> > > is correct, that using CONFIG_NUMA instead of CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> > > would only mean that early_pfn_in_nid() will cost several cycles more on
> > > architectures that didn't select CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES (i.e. arm64
> > > and sh).
> > 
> > Do we have any idea on how much of an overhead that is? Because this is
> > per each pfn so it can accumulate a lot! 
> 
> It's O(log(N)) where N is the amount of the memory banks (ie. memblock.memory.cnt)

This is for the Node id searching. But early_pfn_in_nid() is calling for
each pfn, this is the big one, I think. Otherwise, it may be optimized
as no-op.

>  
> > > Agian, ia64 is an exception here.
> > 
> > Thanks for the clarification!
> > -- 
> > Michal Hocko
> > SUSE Labs
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely yours,
> Mike.
> 
>
Mike Rapoport March 30, 2020, 5:51 p.m. UTC | #12
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 09:42:46AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Sat 28-03-20 11:31:17, Hoan Tran wrote:
> > In NUMA layout which nodes have memory ranges that span across other nodes,
> > the mm driver can detect the memory node id incorrectly.
> > 
> > For example, with layout below
> > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx 0000 xxxx
> > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 xxxx 1111
> > 
> > Note:
> >  - Memory from low to high
> >  - 0/1: Node id
> >  - x: Invalid memory of a node
> > 
> > When mm probes the memory map, without CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> > config, mm only checks the memory validity but not the node id.
> > Because of that, Node 1 also detects the memory from node 0 as below
> > when it scans from the start address to the end address of node 1.
> > 
> > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx xxxx xxxx
> > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 1111 1111
> > 
> > This layout could occur on any architecture. Most of them enables
> > this config by default with CONFIG_NUMA. This patch, by default, enables
> > CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES or uses early_pfn_in_nid() for NUMA.
> 
> I am not opposed to this at all. It reduces the config space and that is
> a good thing on its own. The history has shown that meory layout might
> be really wild wrt NUMA. The config is only used for early_pfn_in_nid
> which is clearly an overkill.
> 
> Your description doesn't really explain why this is safe though. The
> history of this config is somehow messy, though. Mike has tried
> to remove it a94b3ab7eab4 ("[PATCH] mm: remove arch independent
> NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES") just to be reintroduced by 7516795739bd
> ("[PATCH] Reintroduce NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES for powerpc") without any
> reasoning what so ever. This doesn't make it really easy see whether
> reasons for reintroduction are still there. Maybe there are some subtle
> dependencies. I do not see any TBH but that might be burried deep in an
> arch specific code.

I've looked at this a bit more and it seems that the check for
early_pfn_in_nid() in memmap_init_zone() can be simply removed.

The commits you've mentioned were way before the addition of
HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP and the whole infrastructure that calculates zone
sizes and boundaries based on the memblock node map.
So, the memmap_init_zone() is called when zone boundaries are already
within a node.

I don't have access to machines with memory layout that required this check
at the first place, so if anybody who does could test the change below on
such machine it would be great.


diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 3c4eb750a199..6d3eb0901864 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5908,10 +5908,6 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
                                pfn = next_pfn(pfn);
                                continue;
                        }
-                       if (!early_pfn_in_nid(pfn, nid)) {
-                               pfn++;
-                               continue;
-                       }
                        if (overlap_memmap_init(zone, &pfn))
                                continue;
                        if (defer_init(nid, pfn, end_pfn))

 
> > v3:
> >  * Revise the patch description
> > 
> > V2:
> >  * Revise the patch description
> > 
> > Hoan Tran (5):
> >   mm: Enable CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES by default for NUMA
> >   powerpc: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> >   x86: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> >   sparc: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> >   s390: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> > 
> >  arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 9 ---------
> >  arch/s390/Kconfig    | 8 --------
> >  arch/sparc/Kconfig   | 9 ---------
> >  arch/x86/Kconfig     | 9 ---------
> >  mm/page_alloc.c      | 2 +-
> >  5 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 36 deletions(-)
> > 
> > -- 
> > 1.8.3.1
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
Michal Hocko March 30, 2020, 6:23 p.m. UTC | #13
On Mon 30-03-20 20:51:00, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 09:42:46AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Sat 28-03-20 11:31:17, Hoan Tran wrote:
> > > In NUMA layout which nodes have memory ranges that span across other nodes,
> > > the mm driver can detect the memory node id incorrectly.
> > > 
> > > For example, with layout below
> > > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx 0000 xxxx
> > > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 xxxx 1111
> > > 
> > > Note:
> > >  - Memory from low to high
> > >  - 0/1: Node id
> > >  - x: Invalid memory of a node
> > > 
> > > When mm probes the memory map, without CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> > > config, mm only checks the memory validity but not the node id.
> > > Because of that, Node 1 also detects the memory from node 0 as below
> > > when it scans from the start address to the end address of node 1.
> > > 
> > > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx xxxx xxxx
> > > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 1111 1111
> > > 
> > > This layout could occur on any architecture. Most of them enables
> > > this config by default with CONFIG_NUMA. This patch, by default, enables
> > > CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES or uses early_pfn_in_nid() for NUMA.
> > 
> > I am not opposed to this at all. It reduces the config space and that is
> > a good thing on its own. The history has shown that meory layout might
> > be really wild wrt NUMA. The config is only used for early_pfn_in_nid
> > which is clearly an overkill.
> > 
> > Your description doesn't really explain why this is safe though. The
> > history of this config is somehow messy, though. Mike has tried
> > to remove it a94b3ab7eab4 ("[PATCH] mm: remove arch independent
> > NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES") just to be reintroduced by 7516795739bd
> > ("[PATCH] Reintroduce NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES for powerpc") without any
> > reasoning what so ever. This doesn't make it really easy see whether
> > reasons for reintroduction are still there. Maybe there are some subtle
> > dependencies. I do not see any TBH but that might be burried deep in an
> > arch specific code.
> 
> I've looked at this a bit more and it seems that the check for
> early_pfn_in_nid() in memmap_init_zone() can be simply removed.
> 
> The commits you've mentioned were way before the addition of
> HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP and the whole infrastructure that calculates zone
> sizes and boundaries based on the memblock node map.
> So, the memmap_init_zone() is called when zone boundaries are already
> within a node.

But zones from different nodes might overlap in the pfn range. And this
check is there to skip over those overlapping areas. The only way to
skip over this check I can see is to do a different pfn walk and go
through memblock ranges which are guaranteed to belong to a single node.
Mike Rapoport March 31, 2020, 8:14 a.m. UTC | #14
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 08:23:01PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 30-03-20 20:51:00, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 09:42:46AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Sat 28-03-20 11:31:17, Hoan Tran wrote:
> > > > In NUMA layout which nodes have memory ranges that span across other nodes,
> > > > the mm driver can detect the memory node id incorrectly.
> > > > 
> > > > For example, with layout below
> > > > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx 0000 xxxx
> > > > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 xxxx 1111
> > > > 
> > > > Note:
> > > >  - Memory from low to high
> > > >  - 0/1: Node id
> > > >  - x: Invalid memory of a node
> > > > 
> > > > When mm probes the memory map, without CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> > > > config, mm only checks the memory validity but not the node id.
> > > > Because of that, Node 1 also detects the memory from node 0 as below
> > > > when it scans from the start address to the end address of node 1.
> > > > 
> > > > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx xxxx xxxx
> > > > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 1111 1111
> > > > 
> > > > This layout could occur on any architecture. Most of them enables
> > > > this config by default with CONFIG_NUMA. This patch, by default, enables
> > > > CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES or uses early_pfn_in_nid() for NUMA.
> > > 
> > > I am not opposed to this at all. It reduces the config space and that is
> > > a good thing on its own. The history has shown that meory layout might
> > > be really wild wrt NUMA. The config is only used for early_pfn_in_nid
> > > which is clearly an overkill.
> > > 
> > > Your description doesn't really explain why this is safe though. The
> > > history of this config is somehow messy, though. Mike has tried
> > > to remove it a94b3ab7eab4 ("[PATCH] mm: remove arch independent
> > > NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES") just to be reintroduced by 7516795739bd
> > > ("[PATCH] Reintroduce NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES for powerpc") without any
> > > reasoning what so ever. This doesn't make it really easy see whether
> > > reasons for reintroduction are still there. Maybe there are some subtle
> > > dependencies. I do not see any TBH but that might be burried deep in an
> > > arch specific code.
> > 
> > I've looked at this a bit more and it seems that the check for
> > early_pfn_in_nid() in memmap_init_zone() can be simply removed.
> > 
> > The commits you've mentioned were way before the addition of
> > HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP and the whole infrastructure that calculates zone
> > sizes and boundaries based on the memblock node map.
> > So, the memmap_init_zone() is called when zone boundaries are already
> > within a node.
> 
> But zones from different nodes might overlap in the pfn range. And this
> check is there to skip over those overlapping areas.

Maybe I mis-read the code, but I don't see how this could happen. In the
HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP=y case, free_area_init_node() calls
calculate_node_totalpages() that ensures that node->node_zones are entirely
within the node because this is checked in zone_spanned_pages_in_node().
So, for zones from different nodes to overlap in the pfn range the nodes
themself should overlap. Is this even possible?


> The only way to skip over this check I can see is to do a different pfn
> walk and go through memblock ranges which are guaranteed to belong to a
> single node.
> -- 
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
Michal Hocko March 31, 2020, 8:55 a.m. UTC | #15
On Tue 31-03-20 11:14:23, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 08:23:01PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Mon 30-03-20 20:51:00, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 09:42:46AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > > On Sat 28-03-20 11:31:17, Hoan Tran wrote:
> > > > > In NUMA layout which nodes have memory ranges that span across other nodes,
> > > > > the mm driver can detect the memory node id incorrectly.
> > > > > 
> > > > > For example, with layout below
> > > > > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx 0000 xxxx
> > > > > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 xxxx 1111
> > > > > 
> > > > > Note:
> > > > >  - Memory from low to high
> > > > >  - 0/1: Node id
> > > > >  - x: Invalid memory of a node
> > > > > 
> > > > > When mm probes the memory map, without CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
> > > > > config, mm only checks the memory validity but not the node id.
> > > > > Because of that, Node 1 also detects the memory from node 0 as below
> > > > > when it scans from the start address to the end address of node 1.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx xxxx xxxx
> > > > > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 1111 1111
> > > > > 
> > > > > This layout could occur on any architecture. Most of them enables
> > > > > this config by default with CONFIG_NUMA. This patch, by default, enables
> > > > > CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES or uses early_pfn_in_nid() for NUMA.
> > > > 
> > > > I am not opposed to this at all. It reduces the config space and that is
> > > > a good thing on its own. The history has shown that meory layout might
> > > > be really wild wrt NUMA. The config is only used for early_pfn_in_nid
> > > > which is clearly an overkill.
> > > > 
> > > > Your description doesn't really explain why this is safe though. The
> > > > history of this config is somehow messy, though. Mike has tried
> > > > to remove it a94b3ab7eab4 ("[PATCH] mm: remove arch independent
> > > > NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES") just to be reintroduced by 7516795739bd
> > > > ("[PATCH] Reintroduce NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES for powerpc") without any
> > > > reasoning what so ever. This doesn't make it really easy see whether
> > > > reasons for reintroduction are still there. Maybe there are some subtle
> > > > dependencies. I do not see any TBH but that might be burried deep in an
> > > > arch specific code.
> > > 
> > > I've looked at this a bit more and it seems that the check for
> > > early_pfn_in_nid() in memmap_init_zone() can be simply removed.
> > > 
> > > The commits you've mentioned were way before the addition of
> > > HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP and the whole infrastructure that calculates zone
> > > sizes and boundaries based on the memblock node map.
> > > So, the memmap_init_zone() is called when zone boundaries are already
> > > within a node.
> > 
> > But zones from different nodes might overlap in the pfn range. And this
> > check is there to skip over those overlapping areas.
> 
> Maybe I mis-read the code, but I don't see how this could happen. In the
> HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP=y case, free_area_init_node() calls
> calculate_node_totalpages() that ensures that node->node_zones are entirely
> within the node because this is checked in zone_spanned_pages_in_node().

zone_spanned_pages_in_node does chech the zone boundaries are within the
node boundaries. But that doesn't really tell anything about other
potential zones interleaving with the physical memory range.
zone->spanned_pages simply gives the physical range for the zone
including holes. Interleaving nodes are essentially a hole
(__absent_pages_in_range is going to skip those).

That means that when free_area_init_core simply goes over the whole
physical zone range including holes and that is why we need to check
both for physical and logical holes (aka other nodes).

The life would be so much easier if the whole thing would simply iterate
over memblocks...
Baoquan He March 31, 2020, 2:03 p.m. UTC | #16
Hi Michal,

On 03/31/20 at 10:55am, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 31-03-20 11:14:23, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > Maybe I mis-read the code, but I don't see how this could happen. In the
> > HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP=y case, free_area_init_node() calls
> > calculate_node_totalpages() that ensures that node->node_zones are entirely
> > within the node because this is checked in zone_spanned_pages_in_node().
> 
> zone_spanned_pages_in_node does chech the zone boundaries are within the
> node boundaries. But that doesn't really tell anything about other
> potential zones interleaving with the physical memory range.
> zone->spanned_pages simply gives the physical range for the zone
> including holes. Interleaving nodes are essentially a hole
> (__absent_pages_in_range is going to skip those).
> 
> That means that when free_area_init_core simply goes over the whole
> physical zone range including holes and that is why we need to check
> both for physical and logical holes (aka other nodes).
> 
> The life would be so much easier if the whole thing would simply iterate
> over memblocks...

The memblock iterating sounds a great idea. I tried with putting the
memblock iterating in the upper layer, memmap_init(), which is used for
boot mem only anyway. Do you think it's doable and OK? It yes, I can
work out a formal patch to make this simpler as you said. The draft code
is as below. Like this it uses the existing code and involves little change.

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 138a56c0f48f..558d421f294b 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -6007,14 +6007,6 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
 		 * function.  They do not exist on hotplugged memory.
 		 */
 		if (context == MEMMAP_EARLY) {
-			if (!early_pfn_valid(pfn)) {
-				pfn = next_pfn(pfn);
-				continue;
-			}
-			if (!early_pfn_in_nid(pfn, nid)) {
-				pfn++;
-				continue;
-			}
 			if (overlap_memmap_init(zone, &pfn))
 				continue;
 			if (defer_init(nid, pfn, end_pfn))
@@ -6130,9 +6122,17 @@ static void __meminit zone_init_free_lists(struct zone *zone)
 }
 
 void __meminit __weak memmap_init(unsigned long size, int nid,
-				  unsigned long zone, unsigned long start_pfn)
+				  unsigned long zone, unsigned long range_start_pfn)
 {
-	memmap_init_zone(size, nid, zone, start_pfn, MEMMAP_EARLY, NULL);
+	unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn;
+	unsigned long range_end_pfn = range_start_pfn + size;
+	int i;
+	for_each_mem_pfn_range(i, nid, &start_pfn, &end_pfn, NULL) {
+		start_pfn = clamp(start_pfn, range_start_pfn, range_end_pfn);
+		end_pfn = clamp(end_pfn, range_start_pfn, range_end_pfn);
+		if (end_pfn > start_pfn)
+			memmap_init_zone(size, nid, zone, start_pfn, MEMMAP_EARLY, NULL);
+	}
 }
 
 static int zone_batchsize(struct zone *zone)
Michal Hocko March 31, 2020, 2:21 p.m. UTC | #17
On Tue 31-03-20 22:03:32, Baoquan He wrote:
> Hi Michal,
> 
> On 03/31/20 at 10:55am, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Tue 31-03-20 11:14:23, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > Maybe I mis-read the code, but I don't see how this could happen. In the
> > > HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP=y case, free_area_init_node() calls
> > > calculate_node_totalpages() that ensures that node->node_zones are entirely
> > > within the node because this is checked in zone_spanned_pages_in_node().
> > 
> > zone_spanned_pages_in_node does chech the zone boundaries are within the
> > node boundaries. But that doesn't really tell anything about other
> > potential zones interleaving with the physical memory range.
> > zone->spanned_pages simply gives the physical range for the zone
> > including holes. Interleaving nodes are essentially a hole
> > (__absent_pages_in_range is going to skip those).
> > 
> > That means that when free_area_init_core simply goes over the whole
> > physical zone range including holes and that is why we need to check
> > both for physical and logical holes (aka other nodes).
> > 
> > The life would be so much easier if the whole thing would simply iterate
> > over memblocks...
> 
> The memblock iterating sounds a great idea. I tried with putting the
> memblock iterating in the upper layer, memmap_init(), which is used for
> boot mem only anyway. Do you think it's doable and OK? It yes, I can
> work out a formal patch to make this simpler as you said. The draft code
> is as below. Like this it uses the existing code and involves little change.

Doing this would be a step in the right direction! I haven't checked the
code very closely though. The below sounds way too simple to be truth I
am afraid. First for_each_mem_pfn_range is available only for
CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP (which is one of the reasons why I keep
saying that I really hate that being conditional). Also I haven't really
checked the deferred initialization path - I have a very vague
recollection that it has been converted to the memblock api but I have
happilly dropped all that memory.
 
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 138a56c0f48f..558d421f294b 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -6007,14 +6007,6 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
>  		 * function.  They do not exist on hotplugged memory.
>  		 */
>  		if (context == MEMMAP_EARLY) {
> -			if (!early_pfn_valid(pfn)) {
> -				pfn = next_pfn(pfn);
> -				continue;
> -			}
> -			if (!early_pfn_in_nid(pfn, nid)) {
> -				pfn++;
> -				continue;
> -			}
>  			if (overlap_memmap_init(zone, &pfn))
>  				continue;
>  			if (defer_init(nid, pfn, end_pfn))
> @@ -6130,9 +6122,17 @@ static void __meminit zone_init_free_lists(struct zone *zone)
>  }
>  
>  void __meminit __weak memmap_init(unsigned long size, int nid,
> -				  unsigned long zone, unsigned long start_pfn)
> +				  unsigned long zone, unsigned long range_start_pfn)
>  {
> -	memmap_init_zone(size, nid, zone, start_pfn, MEMMAP_EARLY, NULL);
> +	unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn;
> +	unsigned long range_end_pfn = range_start_pfn + size;
> +	int i;
> +	for_each_mem_pfn_range(i, nid, &start_pfn, &end_pfn, NULL) {
> +		start_pfn = clamp(start_pfn, range_start_pfn, range_end_pfn);
> +		end_pfn = clamp(end_pfn, range_start_pfn, range_end_pfn);
> +		if (end_pfn > start_pfn)
> +			memmap_init_zone(size, nid, zone, start_pfn, MEMMAP_EARLY, NULL);
> +	}
>  }
>  
>  static int zone_batchsize(struct zone *zone)
Baoquan He March 31, 2020, 2:31 p.m. UTC | #18
On 03/31/20 at 04:21pm, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 31-03-20 22:03:32, Baoquan He wrote:
> > Hi Michal,
> > 
> > On 03/31/20 at 10:55am, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Tue 31-03-20 11:14:23, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > > Maybe I mis-read the code, but I don't see how this could happen. In the
> > > > HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP=y case, free_area_init_node() calls
> > > > calculate_node_totalpages() that ensures that node->node_zones are entirely
> > > > within the node because this is checked in zone_spanned_pages_in_node().
> > > 
> > > zone_spanned_pages_in_node does chech the zone boundaries are within the
> > > node boundaries. But that doesn't really tell anything about other
> > > potential zones interleaving with the physical memory range.
> > > zone->spanned_pages simply gives the physical range for the zone
> > > including holes. Interleaving nodes are essentially a hole
> > > (__absent_pages_in_range is going to skip those).
> > > 
> > > That means that when free_area_init_core simply goes over the whole
> > > physical zone range including holes and that is why we need to check
> > > both for physical and logical holes (aka other nodes).
> > > 
> > > The life would be so much easier if the whole thing would simply iterate
> > > over memblocks...
> > 
> > The memblock iterating sounds a great idea. I tried with putting the
> > memblock iterating in the upper layer, memmap_init(), which is used for
> > boot mem only anyway. Do you think it's doable and OK? It yes, I can
> > work out a formal patch to make this simpler as you said. The draft code
> > is as below. Like this it uses the existing code and involves little change.
> 
> Doing this would be a step in the right direction! I haven't checked the
> code very closely though. The below sounds way too simple to be truth I
> am afraid. First for_each_mem_pfn_range is available only for
> CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP (which is one of the reasons why I keep
> saying that I really hate that being conditional). Also I haven't really
> checked the deferred initialization path - I have a very vague
> recollection that it has been converted to the memblock api but I have
> happilly dropped all that memory.

Thanks for your quick response and pointing out the rest suspect aspects,
I will investigate what you mentioned, see if they impact.

>  
> > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > index 138a56c0f48f..558d421f294b 100644
> > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > @@ -6007,14 +6007,6 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
> >  		 * function.  They do not exist on hotplugged memory.
> >  		 */
> >  		if (context == MEMMAP_EARLY) {
> > -			if (!early_pfn_valid(pfn)) {
> > -				pfn = next_pfn(pfn);
> > -				continue;
> > -			}
> > -			if (!early_pfn_in_nid(pfn, nid)) {
> > -				pfn++;
> > -				continue;
> > -			}
> >  			if (overlap_memmap_init(zone, &pfn))
> >  				continue;
> >  			if (defer_init(nid, pfn, end_pfn))
> > @@ -6130,9 +6122,17 @@ static void __meminit zone_init_free_lists(struct zone *zone)
> >  }
> >  
> >  void __meminit __weak memmap_init(unsigned long size, int nid,
> > -				  unsigned long zone, unsigned long start_pfn)
> > +				  unsigned long zone, unsigned long range_start_pfn)
> >  {
> > -	memmap_init_zone(size, nid, zone, start_pfn, MEMMAP_EARLY, NULL);
> > +	unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn;
> > +	unsigned long range_end_pfn = range_start_pfn + size;
> > +	int i;
> > +	for_each_mem_pfn_range(i, nid, &start_pfn, &end_pfn, NULL) {
> > +		start_pfn = clamp(start_pfn, range_start_pfn, range_end_pfn);
> > +		end_pfn = clamp(end_pfn, range_start_pfn, range_end_pfn);
> > +		if (end_pfn > start_pfn)
> > +			memmap_init_zone(size, nid, zone, start_pfn, MEMMAP_EARLY, NULL);
> > +	}
> >  }
> >  
> >  static int zone_batchsize(struct zone *zone)
> 
> -- 
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
>
Hoan Tran April 3, 2020, 4:46 a.m. UTC | #19
Hi All,

On 3/31/20 7:31 AM, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 03/31/20 at 04:21pm, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> On Tue 31-03-20 22:03:32, Baoquan He wrote:
>>> Hi Michal,
>>>
>>> On 03/31/20 at 10:55am, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>>> On Tue 31-03-20 11:14:23, Mike Rapoport wrote:
>>>>> Maybe I mis-read the code, but I don't see how this could happen. In the
>>>>> HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP=y case, free_area_init_node() calls
>>>>> calculate_node_totalpages() that ensures that node->node_zones are entirely
>>>>> within the node because this is checked in zone_spanned_pages_in_node().
>>>>
>>>> zone_spanned_pages_in_node does chech the zone boundaries are within the
>>>> node boundaries. But that doesn't really tell anything about other
>>>> potential zones interleaving with the physical memory range.
>>>> zone->spanned_pages simply gives the physical range for the zone
>>>> including holes. Interleaving nodes are essentially a hole
>>>> (__absent_pages_in_range is going to skip those).
>>>>
>>>> That means that when free_area_init_core simply goes over the whole
>>>> physical zone range including holes and that is why we need to check
>>>> both for physical and logical holes (aka other nodes).
>>>>
>>>> The life would be so much easier if the whole thing would simply iterate
>>>> over memblocks...
>>>
>>> The memblock iterating sounds a great idea. I tried with putting the
>>> memblock iterating in the upper layer, memmap_init(), which is used for
>>> boot mem only anyway. Do you think it's doable and OK? It yes, I can
>>> work out a formal patch to make this simpler as you said. The draft code
>>> is as below. Like this it uses the existing code and involves little change.
>>
>> Doing this would be a step in the right direction! I haven't checked the
>> code very closely though. The below sounds way too simple to be truth I
>> am afraid. First for_each_mem_pfn_range is available only for
>> CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP (which is one of the reasons why I keep
>> saying that I really hate that being conditional). Also I haven't really
>> checked the deferred initialization path - I have a very vague
>> recollection that it has been converted to the memblock api but I have
>> happilly dropped all that memory.
> 
> Thanks for your quick response and pointing out the rest suspect aspects,
> I will investigate what you mentioned, see if they impact.

I would like to check if we still move on with my patch to remove 
CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES and have another patch on top it?

Thanks
Hoan

> 
>>   
>>> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
>>> index 138a56c0f48f..558d421f294b 100644
>>> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
>>> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
>>> @@ -6007,14 +6007,6 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
>>>   		 * function.  They do not exist on hotplugged memory.
>>>   		 */
>>>   		if (context == MEMMAP_EARLY) {
>>> -			if (!early_pfn_valid(pfn)) {
>>> -				pfn = next_pfn(pfn);
>>> -				continue;
>>> -			}
>>> -			if (!early_pfn_in_nid(pfn, nid)) {
>>> -				pfn++;
>>> -				continue;
>>> -			}
>>>   			if (overlap_memmap_init(zone, &pfn))
>>>   				continue;
>>>   			if (defer_init(nid, pfn, end_pfn))
>>> @@ -6130,9 +6122,17 @@ static void __meminit zone_init_free_lists(struct zone *zone)
>>>   }
>>>   
>>>   void __meminit __weak memmap_init(unsigned long size, int nid,
>>> -				  unsigned long zone, unsigned long start_pfn)
>>> +				  unsigned long zone, unsigned long range_start_pfn)
>>>   {
>>> -	memmap_init_zone(size, nid, zone, start_pfn, MEMMAP_EARLY, NULL);
>>> +	unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn;
>>> +	unsigned long range_end_pfn = range_start_pfn + size;
>>> +	int i;
>>> +	for_each_mem_pfn_range(i, nid, &start_pfn, &end_pfn, NULL) {
>>> +		start_pfn = clamp(start_pfn, range_start_pfn, range_end_pfn);
>>> +		end_pfn = clamp(end_pfn, range_start_pfn, range_end_pfn);
>>> +		if (end_pfn > start_pfn)
>>> +			memmap_init_zone(size, nid, zone, start_pfn, MEMMAP_EARLY, NULL);
>>> +	}
>>>   }
>>>   
>>>   static int zone_batchsize(struct zone *zone)
>>
>> -- 
>> Michal Hocko
>> SUSE Labs
>>
>
Baoquan He April 3, 2020, 7:09 a.m. UTC | #20
On 04/02/20 at 09:46pm, Hoan Tran wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> On 3/31/20 7:31 AM, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 03/31/20 at 04:21pm, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Tue 31-03-20 22:03:32, Baoquan He wrote:
> > > > Hi Michal,
> > > > 
> > > > On 03/31/20 at 10:55am, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > > > On Tue 31-03-20 11:14:23, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > > > > Maybe I mis-read the code, but I don't see how this could happen. In the
> > > > > > HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP=y case, free_area_init_node() calls
> > > > > > calculate_node_totalpages() that ensures that node->node_zones are entirely
> > > > > > within the node because this is checked in zone_spanned_pages_in_node().
> > > > > 
> > > > > zone_spanned_pages_in_node does chech the zone boundaries are within the
> > > > > node boundaries. But that doesn't really tell anything about other
> > > > > potential zones interleaving with the physical memory range.
> > > > > zone->spanned_pages simply gives the physical range for the zone
> > > > > including holes. Interleaving nodes are essentially a hole
> > > > > (__absent_pages_in_range is going to skip those).
> > > > > 
> > > > > That means that when free_area_init_core simply goes over the whole
> > > > > physical zone range including holes and that is why we need to check
> > > > > both for physical and logical holes (aka other nodes).
> > > > > 
> > > > > The life would be so much easier if the whole thing would simply iterate
> > > > > over memblocks...
> > > > 
> > > > The memblock iterating sounds a great idea. I tried with putting the
> > > > memblock iterating in the upper layer, memmap_init(), which is used for
> > > > boot mem only anyway. Do you think it's doable and OK? It yes, I can
> > > > work out a formal patch to make this simpler as you said. The draft code
> > > > is as below. Like this it uses the existing code and involves little change.
> > > 
> > > Doing this would be a step in the right direction! I haven't checked the
> > > code very closely though. The below sounds way too simple to be truth I
> > > am afraid. First for_each_mem_pfn_range is available only for
> > > CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP (which is one of the reasons why I keep
> > > saying that I really hate that being conditional). Also I haven't really
> > > checked the deferred initialization path - I have a very vague
> > > recollection that it has been converted to the memblock api but I have
> > > happilly dropped all that memory.
> > 
> > Thanks for your quick response and pointing out the rest suspect aspects,
> > I will investigate what you mentioned, see if they impact.
> 
> I would like to check if we still move on with my patch to remove
> CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES and have another patch on top it?

I think we would like to replace CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES with
CONFIG_NUMA, and just let UMA return 0 as node id, as Michal replied in
another mail. Anyway, your patch 2~5 are still needed to sit on top of
the change of this new plan.
Hoan Tran April 3, 2020, 4:36 p.m. UTC | #21
Hi,


On 4/3/20 12:09 AM, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 04/02/20 at 09:46pm, Hoan Tran wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> On 3/31/20 7:31 AM, Baoquan He wrote:
>>> On 03/31/20 at 04:21pm, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>>> On Tue 31-03-20 22:03:32, Baoquan He wrote:
>>>>> Hi Michal,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 03/31/20 at 10:55am, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue 31-03-20 11:14:23, Mike Rapoport wrote:
>>>>>>> Maybe I mis-read the code, but I don't see how this could happen. In the
>>>>>>> HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP=y case, free_area_init_node() calls
>>>>>>> calculate_node_totalpages() that ensures that node->node_zones are entirely
>>>>>>> within the node because this is checked in zone_spanned_pages_in_node().
>>>>>>
>>>>>> zone_spanned_pages_in_node does chech the zone boundaries are within the
>>>>>> node boundaries. But that doesn't really tell anything about other
>>>>>> potential zones interleaving with the physical memory range.
>>>>>> zone->spanned_pages simply gives the physical range for the zone
>>>>>> including holes. Interleaving nodes are essentially a hole
>>>>>> (__absent_pages_in_range is going to skip those).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That means that when free_area_init_core simply goes over the whole
>>>>>> physical zone range including holes and that is why we need to check
>>>>>> both for physical and logical holes (aka other nodes).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The life would be so much easier if the whole thing would simply iterate
>>>>>> over memblocks...
>>>>>
>>>>> The memblock iterating sounds a great idea. I tried with putting the
>>>>> memblock iterating in the upper layer, memmap_init(), which is used for
>>>>> boot mem only anyway. Do you think it's doable and OK? It yes, I can
>>>>> work out a formal patch to make this simpler as you said. The draft code
>>>>> is as below. Like this it uses the existing code and involves little change.
>>>>
>>>> Doing this would be a step in the right direction! I haven't checked the
>>>> code very closely though. The below sounds way too simple to be truth I
>>>> am afraid. First for_each_mem_pfn_range is available only for
>>>> CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP (which is one of the reasons why I keep
>>>> saying that I really hate that being conditional). Also I haven't really
>>>> checked the deferred initialization path - I have a very vague
>>>> recollection that it has been converted to the memblock api but I have
>>>> happilly dropped all that memory.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your quick response and pointing out the rest suspect aspects,
>>> I will investigate what you mentioned, see if they impact.
>>
>> I would like to check if we still move on with my patch to remove
>> CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES and have another patch on top it?
> 
> I think we would like to replace CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES with
> CONFIG_NUMA, and just let UMA return 0 as node id, as Michal replied in
> another mail. Anyway, your patch 2~5 are still needed to sit on top of
> the change of this new plan.

Got it. Thanks for quick response.

Regards
Hoan
>
Mike Rapoport April 9, 2020, 4:27 p.m. UTC | #22
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 04:21:38PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 31-03-20 22:03:32, Baoquan He wrote:
> > Hi Michal,
> > 
> > On 03/31/20 at 10:55am, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Tue 31-03-20 11:14:23, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > > Maybe I mis-read the code, but I don't see how this could happen. In the
> > > > HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP=y case, free_area_init_node() calls
> > > > calculate_node_totalpages() that ensures that node->node_zones are entirely
> > > > within the node because this is checked in zone_spanned_pages_in_node().
> > > 
> > > zone_spanned_pages_in_node does chech the zone boundaries are within the
> > > node boundaries. But that doesn't really tell anything about other
> > > potential zones interleaving with the physical memory range.
> > > zone->spanned_pages simply gives the physical range for the zone
> > > including holes. Interleaving nodes are essentially a hole
> > > (__absent_pages_in_range is going to skip those).
> > > 
> > > That means that when free_area_init_core simply goes over the whole
> > > physical zone range including holes and that is why we need to check
> > > both for physical and logical holes (aka other nodes).
> > > 
> > > The life would be so much easier if the whole thing would simply iterate
> > > over memblocks...
> > 
> > The memblock iterating sounds a great idea. I tried with putting the
> > memblock iterating in the upper layer, memmap_init(), which is used for
> > boot mem only anyway. Do you think it's doable and OK? It yes, I can
> > work out a formal patch to make this simpler as you said. The draft code
> > is as below. Like this it uses the existing code and involves little change.
> 
> Doing this would be a step in the right direction! I haven't checked the
> code very closely though. The below sounds way too simple to be truth I
> am afraid. First for_each_mem_pfn_range is available only for
> CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP (which is one of the reasons why I keep
> saying that I really hate that being conditional). Also I haven't really
> checked the deferred initialization path - I have a very vague
> recollection that it has been converted to the memblock api but I have
> happilly dropped all that memory.

The Baoquan's patch almost did it, at least for simple case of qemu with 2
nodes. It's only missing the adjustment to the size passed to
memmap_init_zone() as it may change because of clamping.

I've drafted something that removes HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP and added this
patch there [1]. For several memory configurations I could emulate with
qemu it worked.
I'm going to wait a bit to see of kbuild is happy and then I'll send the
patches.

Baoquan, I took liberty to add your SoB, hope you don't mind.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/linux.git/log/?h=memblock/all-have-node-map 
  
> > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > index 138a56c0f48f..558d421f294b 100644
> > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > @@ -6007,14 +6007,6 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
> >  		 * function.  They do not exist on hotplugged memory.
> >  		 */
> >  		if (context == MEMMAP_EARLY) {
> > -			if (!early_pfn_valid(pfn)) {
> > -				pfn = next_pfn(pfn);
> > -				continue;
> > -			}
> > -			if (!early_pfn_in_nid(pfn, nid)) {
> > -				pfn++;
> > -				continue;
> > -			}
> >  			if (overlap_memmap_init(zone, &pfn))
> >  				continue;
> >  			if (defer_init(nid, pfn, end_pfn))
> > @@ -6130,9 +6122,17 @@ static void __meminit zone_init_free_lists(struct zone *zone)
> >  }
> >  
> >  void __meminit __weak memmap_init(unsigned long size, int nid,
> > -				  unsigned long zone, unsigned long start_pfn)
> > +				  unsigned long zone, unsigned long range_start_pfn)
> >  {
> > -	memmap_init_zone(size, nid, zone, start_pfn, MEMMAP_EARLY, NULL);
> > +	unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn;
> > +	unsigned long range_end_pfn = range_start_pfn + size;
> > +	int i;
> > +	for_each_mem_pfn_range(i, nid, &start_pfn, &end_pfn, NULL) {
> > +		start_pfn = clamp(start_pfn, range_start_pfn, range_end_pfn);
> > +		end_pfn = clamp(end_pfn, range_start_pfn, range_end_pfn);
> > +		if (end_pfn > start_pfn)
> > +			memmap_init_zone(size, nid, zone, start_pfn, MEMMAP_EARLY, NULL);
> > +	}
> >  }
> >  
> >  static int zone_batchsize(struct zone *zone)
> 
> -- 
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
Baoquan He April 10, 2020, 6:50 a.m. UTC | #23
On 04/09/20 at 07:27pm, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 04:21:38PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Tue 31-03-20 22:03:32, Baoquan He wrote:
> > > Hi Michal,
> > > 
> > > On 03/31/20 at 10:55am, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > > On Tue 31-03-20 11:14:23, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > > > Maybe I mis-read the code, but I don't see how this could happen. In the
> > > > > HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP=y case, free_area_init_node() calls
> > > > > calculate_node_totalpages() that ensures that node->node_zones are entirely
> > > > > within the node because this is checked in zone_spanned_pages_in_node().
> > > > 
> > > > zone_spanned_pages_in_node does chech the zone boundaries are within the
> > > > node boundaries. But that doesn't really tell anything about other
> > > > potential zones interleaving with the physical memory range.
> > > > zone->spanned_pages simply gives the physical range for the zone
> > > > including holes. Interleaving nodes are essentially a hole
> > > > (__absent_pages_in_range is going to skip those).
> > > > 
> > > > That means that when free_area_init_core simply goes over the whole
> > > > physical zone range including holes and that is why we need to check
> > > > both for physical and logical holes (aka other nodes).
> > > > 
> > > > The life would be so much easier if the whole thing would simply iterate
> > > > over memblocks...
> > > 
> > > The memblock iterating sounds a great idea. I tried with putting the
> > > memblock iterating in the upper layer, memmap_init(), which is used for
> > > boot mem only anyway. Do you think it's doable and OK? It yes, I can
> > > work out a formal patch to make this simpler as you said. The draft code
> > > is as below. Like this it uses the existing code and involves little change.
> > 
> > Doing this would be a step in the right direction! I haven't checked the
> > code very closely though. The below sounds way too simple to be truth I
> > am afraid. First for_each_mem_pfn_range is available only for
> > CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP (which is one of the reasons why I keep
> > saying that I really hate that being conditional). Also I haven't really
> > checked the deferred initialization path - I have a very vague
> > recollection that it has been converted to the memblock api but I have
> > happilly dropped all that memory.
> 
> The Baoquan's patch almost did it, at least for simple case of qemu with 2
> nodes. It's only missing the adjustment to the size passed to
> memmap_init_zone() as it may change because of clamping.

Right, the size need be adjusted after start and end clamping.

> 
> I've drafted something that removes HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP and added this
> patch there [1]. For several memory configurations I could emulate with
> qemu it worked.
> I'm going to wait a bit to see of kbuild is happy and then I'll send the
> patches.
> 
> Baoquan, I took liberty to add your SoB, hope you don't mind.
> 
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/linux.git/log/?h=memblock/all-have-node-map 

Of course not. Thanks for doing this, and look forward to seeing your
formal patchset posting when it's ready.

>   
> > > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > > index 138a56c0f48f..558d421f294b 100644
> > > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> > > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > > @@ -6007,14 +6007,6 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
> > >  		 * function.  They do not exist on hotplugged memory.
> > >  		 */
> > >  		if (context == MEMMAP_EARLY) {
> > > -			if (!early_pfn_valid(pfn)) {
> > > -				pfn = next_pfn(pfn);
> > > -				continue;
> > > -			}
> > > -			if (!early_pfn_in_nid(pfn, nid)) {
> > > -				pfn++;
> > > -				continue;
> > > -			}
> > >  			if (overlap_memmap_init(zone, &pfn))
> > >  				continue;
> > >  			if (defer_init(nid, pfn, end_pfn))
> > > @@ -6130,9 +6122,17 @@ static void __meminit zone_init_free_lists(struct zone *zone)
> > >  }
> > >  
> > >  void __meminit __weak memmap_init(unsigned long size, int nid,
> > > -				  unsigned long zone, unsigned long start_pfn)
> > > +				  unsigned long zone, unsigned long range_start_pfn)
> > >  {
> > > -	memmap_init_zone(size, nid, zone, start_pfn, MEMMAP_EARLY, NULL);
> > > +	unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn;
> > > +	unsigned long range_end_pfn = range_start_pfn + size;
> > > +	int i;
> > > +	for_each_mem_pfn_range(i, nid, &start_pfn, &end_pfn, NULL) {
> > > +		start_pfn = clamp(start_pfn, range_start_pfn, range_end_pfn);
> > > +		end_pfn = clamp(end_pfn, range_start_pfn, range_end_pfn);
> > > +		if (end_pfn > start_pfn)
> > > +			memmap_init_zone(size, nid, zone, start_pfn, MEMMAP_EARLY, NULL);
> > > +	}
> > >  }
> > >  
> > >  static int zone_batchsize(struct zone *zone)
> > 
> > -- 
> > Michal Hocko
> > SUSE Labs
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely yours,
> Mike.
> 
>