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[v5,3/4] x86/vmemmap: Handle unpopulated sub-pmd ranges

Message ID 20210309174113.5597-4-osalvador@suse.de (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Cleanup and fixups for vmemmap handling | expand

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Oscar Salvador March 9, 2021, 5:41 p.m. UTC
When sizeof(struct page) is not a power of 2, sections do not span
a PMD anymore and so when populating them some parts of the PMD will
remain unused.
Because of this, PMDs will be left behind when depopulating sections
since remove_pmd_table() thinks that those unused parts are still in
use.

Fix this by marking the unused parts with PAGE_UNUSED, so memchr_inv()
will do the right thing and will let us free the PMD when the last user
of it is gone.

This patch is based on a similar patch by David Hildenbrand:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200722094558.9828-9-david@redhat.com/

Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
---
 arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Comments

David Hildenbrand March 9, 2021, 5:52 p.m. UTC | #1
On 09.03.21 18:41, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> When sizeof(struct page) is not a power of 2, sections do not span
> a PMD anymore and so when populating them some parts of the PMD will
> remain unused.
> Because of this, PMDs will be left behind when depopulating sections
> since remove_pmd_table() thinks that those unused parts are still in
> use.
> 
> Fix this by marking the unused parts with PAGE_UNUSED, so memchr_inv()
> will do the right thing and will let us free the PMD when the last user
> of it is gone.
> 
> This patch is based on a similar patch by David Hildenbrand:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200722094558.9828-9-david@redhat.com/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> ---
>   arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>   1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> index 9ecb3c488ac8..3bb3988c7681 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> @@ -871,7 +871,50 @@ int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
>   	return add_pages(nid, start_pfn, nr_pages, params);
>   }
>   
> -#define PAGE_INUSE 0xFD
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
> +#define PAGE_UNUSED 0xFD
> +
> +/* Returns true if the PMD is completely unused and thus it can be freed */
> +static bool __meminit vmemmap_pmd_is_unused(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
> +{

I don't think the new name is any better. It implies that all it does is 
a check - yet it actually clears the given range. (I prefer the old 
name, but well, I came up with that, so what do I know :D )
Dave Hansen March 9, 2021, 6:39 p.m. UTC | #2
On 3/9/21 9:41 AM, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> When sizeof(struct page) is not a power of 2, sections do not span
> a PMD anymore and so when populating them some parts of the PMD will
> remain unused.
> Because of this, PMDs will be left behind when depopulating sections
> since remove_pmd_table() thinks that those unused parts are still in
> use.
> 
> Fix this by marking the unused parts with PAGE_UNUSED, so memchr_inv()
> will do the right thing and will let us free the PMD when the last user
> of it is gone.
> 
> This patch is based on a similar patch by David Hildenbrand:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200722094558.9828-9-david@redhat.com/

Looks good now.  It's much easier to read without the optimization.

Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Oscar Salvador March 10, 2021, 5:49 p.m. UTC | #3
On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 06:52:38PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > -#define PAGE_INUSE 0xFD
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
> > +#define PAGE_UNUSED 0xFD
> > +
> > +/* Returns true if the PMD is completely unused and thus it can be freed */
> > +static bool __meminit vmemmap_pmd_is_unused(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
> > +{
> 
> I don't think the new name is any better. It implies that all it does is a
> check - yet it actually clears the given range. (I prefer the old name, but
> well, I came up with that, so what do I know :D )

Sorry, I did not mean to offend here.

Something like: vmemmap_is_pmd_unused_after_clearing_it would be a bit better
I guess.
Tbh, both this and previous one looked fine to me, but I understand where Dave
confusion was coming from, that is why I decided to rename it.

Maybe a middle-ground would have been to expand the comment above.
David Hildenbrand March 10, 2021, 5:58 p.m. UTC | #4
On 10.03.21 18:49, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 06:52:38PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> -#define PAGE_INUSE 0xFD
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
>>> +#define PAGE_UNUSED 0xFD
>>> +
>>> +/* Returns true if the PMD is completely unused and thus it can be freed */
>>> +static bool __meminit vmemmap_pmd_is_unused(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
>>> +{
>>
>> I don't think the new name is any better. It implies that all it does is a
>> check - yet it actually clears the given range. (I prefer the old name, but
>> well, I came up with that, so what do I know :D )
> 
> Sorry, I did not mean to offend here.

Oh, I didn't feel offended - I was rather expressing that my opinion 
might be biased because I came up with these names in the s390x variant ;)

> 
> Something like: vmemmap_is_pmd_unused_after_clearing_it would be a bit better
> I guess.
> Tbh, both this and previous one looked fine to me, but I understand where Dave
> confusion was coming from, that is why I decided to rename it.
> 
> Maybe a middle-ground would have been to expand the comment above.

Thinking again, I guess it might be a good idea to factor out the core 
functions into common code. For the optimization part, it might make 
sense too pass some "state" structure that contains e.g., 
"unused_pmd_start".

Then we don't have diverging implementations of essentially the same thing.

Of course, we can do that on top of this series - unifying both 
implementations.
Oscar Salvador March 10, 2021, 9:58 p.m. UTC | #5
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 06:58:26PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Thinking again, I guess it might be a good idea to factor out the core
> functions into common code. For the optimization part, it might make sense
> too pass some "state" structure that contains e.g., "unused_pmd_start".

Yeah, that really sounds like a good thing to do.

> 
> Then we don't have diverging implementations of essentially the same thing.
> 
> Of course, we can do that on top of this series - unifying both
> implementations.

I would rather do it on top of this series, not because I am lazy, but
rather fairly busy and I will not be able to spend much time on it
anytime soon.

Once this series gets merged, I commit to have a look into that.

Thanks!
David Hildenbrand March 11, 2021, 4:38 p.m. UTC | #6
On 10.03.21 22:58, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 06:58:26PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> Thinking again, I guess it might be a good idea to factor out the core
>> functions into common code. For the optimization part, it might make sense
>> too pass some "state" structure that contains e.g., "unused_pmd_start".
> 
> Yeah, that really sounds like a good thing to do.
> 
>>
>> Then we don't have diverging implementations of essentially the same thing.
>>
>> Of course, we can do that on top of this series - unifying both
>> implementations.
> 
> I would rather do it on top of this series, not because I am lazy, but
> rather fairly busy and I will not be able to spend much time on it
> anytime soon.
> 
> Once this series gets merged, I commit to have a look into that.
> 

Sure, makes sense - thanks!
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diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index 9ecb3c488ac8..3bb3988c7681 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -871,7 +871,50 @@  int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
 	return add_pages(nid, start_pfn, nr_pages, params);
 }
 
-#define PAGE_INUSE 0xFD
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
+#define PAGE_UNUSED 0xFD
+
+/* Returns true if the PMD is completely unused and thus it can be freed */
+static bool __meminit vmemmap_pmd_is_unused(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
+{
+	unsigned long start = ALIGN_DOWN(addr, PMD_SIZE);
+
+	memset((void *)addr, PAGE_UNUSED, end - addr);
+
+	return !memchr_inv((void *)start, PAGE_UNUSED, PMD_SIZE);
+}
+
+static void __meminit vmemmap_use_sub_pmd(unsigned long start)
+{
+	/*
+	 * As we expect to add in the same granularity as we remove, it's
+	 * sufficient to mark only some piece used to block the memmap page from
+	 * getting removed when removing some other adjacent memmap (just in
+	 * case the first memmap never gets initialized e.g., because the memory
+	 * block never gets onlined).
+	 */
+	memset((void *)start, 0, sizeof(struct page));
+}
+
+static void __meminit vmemmap_use_new_sub_pmd(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Could be our memmap page is filled with PAGE_UNUSED already from a
+	 * previous remove. Make sure to reset it.
+	 */
+	vmemmap_use_sub_pmd(start);
+
+	/*
+	 * Mark with PAGE_UNUSED the unused parts of the new memmap range
+	 */
+	if (!IS_ALIGNED(start, PMD_SIZE))
+	        memset((void *)start, PAGE_UNUSED,
+	               start - ALIGN_DOWN(start, PMD_SIZE));
+	if (!IS_ALIGNED(end, PMD_SIZE))
+		memset((void *)end, PAGE_UNUSED,
+		       ALIGN(end, PMD_SIZE) - end);
+}
+#endif
 
 static void __meminit free_pagetable(struct page *page, int order)
 {
@@ -1006,7 +1049,6 @@  remove_pmd_table(pmd_t *pmd_start, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 	unsigned long next, pages = 0;
 	pte_t *pte_base;
 	pmd_t *pmd;
-	void *page_addr;
 
 	pmd = pmd_start + pmd_index(addr);
 	for (; addr < end; addr = next, pmd++) {
@@ -1026,20 +1068,13 @@  remove_pmd_table(pmd_t *pmd_start, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 				pmd_clear(pmd);
 				spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
 				pages++;
-			} else {
-				/* If here, we are freeing vmemmap pages. */
-				memset((void *)addr, PAGE_INUSE, next - addr);
-
-				page_addr = page_address(pmd_page(*pmd));
-				if (!memchr_inv(page_addr, PAGE_INUSE,
-						PMD_SIZE)) {
+			} else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP) &&
+				   vmemmap_pmd_is_unused(addr, next)) {
 					free_hugepage_table(pmd_page(*pmd),
 							    altmap);
-
 					spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
 					pmd_clear(pmd);
 					spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
-				}
 			}
 
 			continue;
@@ -1492,11 +1527,17 @@  static int __meminit vmemmap_populate_hugepages(unsigned long start,
 
 				addr_end = addr + PMD_SIZE;
 				p_end = p + PMD_SIZE;
+
+				if (!IS_ALIGNED(addr, PMD_SIZE) ||
+				    !IS_ALIGNED(next, PMD_SIZE))
+					vmemmap_use_new_sub_pmd(addr, next);
+
 				continue;
 			} else if (altmap)
 				return -ENOMEM; /* no fallback */
 		} else if (pmd_large(*pmd)) {
 			vmemmap_verify((pte_t *)pmd, node, addr, next);
+			vmemmap_use_sub_pmd(addr);
 			continue;
 		}
 		if (vmemmap_populate_basepages(addr, next, node, NULL))