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author | Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> | 2020-06-03 15:59:24 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-06-03 20:09:45 -0700 |
commit | 3d060856adfc59afb9d029c233141334cfaba418 (patch) | |
tree | 898594e5faba111c53a0d5fedb5d5476634230bb /mm | |
parent | 117003c32771df617acf66e140fbdbdeb0ac71f5 (diff) | |
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mm: initialize deferred pages with interrupts enabled
Initializing struct pages is a long task and keeping interrupts disabled
for the duration of this operation introduces a number of problems.
1. jiffies are not updated for long period of time, and thus incorrect time
is reported. See proposed solution and discussion here:
lkml/20200311123848.118638-1-shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com
2. It prevents farther improving deferred page initialization by allowing
intra-node multi-threading.
We are keeping interrupts disabled to solve a rather theoretical problem
that was never observed in real world (See 3a2d7fa8a3d5).
Let's keep interrupts enabled. In case we ever encounter a scenario where
an interrupt thread wants to allocate large amount of memory this early in
boot we can deal with that by growing zone (see deferred_grow_zone()) by
the needed amount before starting deferred_init_memmap() threads.
Before:
[ 1.232459] node 0 initialised, 12058412 pages in 1ms
After:
[ 1.632580] node 0 initialised, 12051227 pages in 436ms
Fixes: 3a2d7fa8a3d5 ("mm: disable interrupts while initializing deferred pages")
Reported-by: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: Yiqian Wei <yiwei@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.17+]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200403140952.17177-3-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 148cf9a73f0b..c75561a3f144 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1844,6 +1844,13 @@ static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data) BUG_ON(pgdat->first_deferred_pfn > pgdat_end_pfn(pgdat)); pgdat->first_deferred_pfn = ULONG_MAX; + /* + * Once we unlock here, the zone cannot be grown anymore, thus if an + * interrupt thread must allocate this early in boot, zone must be + * pre-grown prior to start of deferred page initialization. + */ + pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags); + /* Only the highest zone is deferred so find it */ for (zid = 0; zid < MAX_NR_ZONES; zid++) { zone = pgdat->node_zones + zid; @@ -1866,8 +1873,6 @@ static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data) touch_nmi_watchdog(); } zone_empty: - pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags); - /* Sanity check that the next zone really is unpopulated */ WARN_ON(++zid < MAX_NR_ZONES && populated_zone(++zone)); @@ -1910,17 +1915,6 @@ deferred_grow_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order) pgdat_resize_lock(pgdat, &flags); /* - * If deferred pages have been initialized while we were waiting for - * the lock, return true, as the zone was grown. The caller will retry - * this zone. We won't return to this function since the caller also - * has this static branch. - */ - if (!static_branch_unlikely(&deferred_pages)) { - pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags); - return true; - } - - /* * If someone grew this zone while we were waiting for spinlock, return * true, as there might be enough pages already. */ |