Re: [PATCH v4] hugetlbfs: Extend the definition of hugepages parameter to support node allocation

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On Thu,  9 Sep 2021 22:16:55 +0800 yaozhenguo <yaozhenguo1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We can specify the number of hugepages to allocate at boot. But the
> hugepages is balanced in all nodes at present. In some scenarios,
> we only need hugepages in one node. For example: DPDK needs hugepages
> which are in the same node as NIC. if DPDK needs four hugepages of 1G
> size in node1 and system has 16 numa nodes. We must reserve 64 hugepages
> in kernel cmdline. But, only four hugepages are used. The others should
> be free after boot. If the system memory is low(for example: 64G), it will
> be an impossible task. So, Extending hugepages parameter to support
> specifying hugepages at a specific node.
> For example add following parameter:
> 
> hugepagesz=1G hugepages=0:1,1:3
> 
> It will allocate 1 hugepage in node0 and 3 hugepages in node1.
> 
> ...
>
> @@ -2842,10 +2843,75 @@ static void __init gather_bootmem_prealloc(void)
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +static void __init hugetlb_hstate_alloc_pages_onenode(struct hstate *h, int nid)
> +{
> +	unsigned long i;
> +	char buf[32];
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < h->max_huge_pages_node[nid]; ++i) {
> +		if (hstate_is_gigantic(h)) {
> +			struct huge_bootmem_page *m;
> +			void *addr;
> +
> +			addr = memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw(
> +					huge_page_size(h), huge_page_size(h),
> +					0, MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE, nid);
> +			if (!addr)
> +				break;
> +			m = addr;
> +			BUG_ON(!IS_ALIGNED(virt_to_phys(m), huge_page_size(h)));

We try very hard to avoid adding BUG calls.  Is there any way in which
this code can emit a WARNing then permit the kernel to keep operating?

> +			/*
> +			 * Put them into a private list first because mem_map
> +			 * is not up yet
> +			 */
> +			INIT_LIST_HEAD(&m->list);
> +			list_add(&m->list, &huge_boot_pages);
> +			m->hstate = h;
> +		} else {
> +			struct page *page;
> +
> +			gfp_t gfp_mask = htlb_alloc_mask(h) | __GFP_THISNODE;
> +
> +			page = alloc_fresh_huge_page(h, gfp_mask, nid,
> +					&node_states[N_MEMORY], NULL);
> +			if (!page)
> +				break;
> +			put_page(page); /* free it into the hugepage allocator */
> +		}
> +		cond_resched();
> +	}
> +	if (i == h->max_huge_pages_node[nid])
> +		return;
> +
> +	string_get_size(huge_page_size(h), 1, STRING_UNITS_2, buf, 32);
> +	pr_warn("HugeTLB: allocating %u of page size %s failed node%d.  Only allocated %lu hugepages.\n",
> +		h->max_huge_pages_node[nid], buf, nid, i);
> +	h->max_huge_pages_node[nid] = i;
> +	h->max_huge_pages -= (h->max_huge_pages_node[nid] - i);
> +}
> +




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