btw. Cc Vlastimil
On Wed 01-04-20 15:32:38, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 2. It prevents farther improving deferred page initialization by allowing
> inter-node multi-threading.
>
> We are keeping interrupts disabled to solve a rather theoretical problem
> that was never observed in real world (See 3a2d7fa8a3d5).
>
> Lets 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
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/page_alloc.c | 21 +++++++--------------
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 3c4eb750a199..4498a13b372d 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -1792,6 +1792,13 @@ 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;
> @@ -1812,8 +1819,6 @@ static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data)
> while (spfn < epfn)
> nr_pages += deferred_init_maxorder(&i, zone, &spfn, &epfn);
> 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));
>
> @@ -1854,18 +1859,6 @@ deferred_grow_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order)
> return false;
>
> 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.
> --
> 2.17.1
>
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
