Hi,
On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 06:29:49PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 04:57:44PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > > This can be much smaller than a page on very small memory systems.
> > > Always rounding up the size to a page is wasteful in that case, and
> > > required alignment is smaller than the memblock default. Let's round
> > > things up to a page size only when the actual size is >= page size, and
> > > then it makes sense to page-align for a nicer allocation pattern.
> >
> > Isn't that a temporary area which gets freed later during boot?
>
> Hmmm...
>
> It may get freed through 3 different paths where 2 of them are error
> paths. What looks like a non-error path is in pcpu_embed_first_chunk()
> called from setup_per_cpu_areas(). But there are two versions of
> setup_per_cpu_areas(): one for SMP and one for !SMP. And the !SMP case
> never calls pcpu_free_alloc_info() currently.
>
> I'm not sure i understand that code fully, but maybe the following patch
> could be a better fit:
>
> ----- >8
> Subject: [PATCH] percpu: don't forget to free the temporary struct pcpu_alloc_info
>
> Unlike the SMP case, the !SMP case does not free the memory for struct
> pcpu_alloc_info allocated in setup_per_cpu_areas(). And to give it a
> chance of being reused by the page allocator later, align it to a page
> boundary just like its size.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>
This patch causes my crisv32 qemu emulation to hang with no console output.
>
> diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
> index 434844415d..caab63375b 100644
> --- a/mm/percpu.c
> +++ b/mm/percpu.c
> @@ -1416,7 +1416,7 @@ struct pcpu_alloc_info * __init pcpu_alloc_alloc_info(int nr_groups,
> __alignof__(ai->groups[0].cpu_map[0]));
> ai_size = base_size + nr_units * sizeof(ai->groups[0].cpu_map[0]);
>
> - ptr = memblock_virt_alloc_nopanic(PFN_ALIGN(ai_size), 0);
> + ptr = memblock_virt_alloc_nopanic(PFN_ALIGN(ai_size), PAGE_SIZE);
> if (!ptr)
> return NULL;
> ai = ptr;
> @@ -2295,6 +2295,7 @@ void __init setup_per_cpu_areas(void)
>
> if (pcpu_setup_first_chunk(ai, fc) < 0)
> panic("Failed to initialize percpu areas.");
> + pcpu_free_alloc_info(ai);
This is the culprit. Everything works fine if I remove this line.
No idea if the problem is here or in the cris core.
Copying cris maintainers for input.
Guenter
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