On 9/15/20 5:59 AM, Muchun Song wrote:
> If the size of hugetlb page is 2MB, we need 512 struct page structures
> (8 pages) to be associated with it. As far as I know, we only use the
> first 3 struct page structures and only read the compound_dtor members
Actually, the first 4 pages can be used if CONFIG_CGROUP_HUGETLB.
/*
* Minimum page order trackable by hugetlb cgroup.
* At least 4 pages are necessary for all the tracking information.
* The second tail page (hpage[2]) is the fault usage cgroup.
* The third tail page (hpage[3]) is the reservation usage cgroup.
*/
#define HUGETLB_CGROUP_MIN_ORDER 2
However, this still easily fits within the first page of struct page
structures.
> of the remaining struct page structures. For tail page, the value of
> compound_dtor is the same. So we can reuse first tail page. We map the
> virtual addresses of the remaining 6 tail pages to the first tail page,
> and then free these 6 pages. Therefore, we need to reserve at least 2
> pages as vmemmap areas.
I got confused the first time I read the above sentences. Perhaps it
should be more explicit with something like:
For tail pages, the value of compound_dtor is the same. So we can reuse
first page of tail page structs. We map the virtual addresses of the
remaining 6 pages of tail page structs to the first tail page struct,
and then free these 6 pages. Therefore, we need to reserve at least 2
pages as vmemmap areas.
It still does not sound great, but hopefully avoids some confusion.
--
Mike Kravetz
> So we introduce a new nr_free_vmemmap_pages field in the hstate to
> indicate how many vmemmap pages associated with a hugetlb page that we
> can free to buddy system.
>
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/hugetlb.h | 3 +++
> mm/hugetlb.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> index d5cc5f802dd4..eed3dd3bd626 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> @@ -492,6 +492,9 @@ struct hstate {
> unsigned int nr_huge_pages_node[MAX_NUMNODES];
> unsigned int free_huge_pages_node[MAX_NUMNODES];
> unsigned int surplus_huge_pages_node[MAX_NUMNODES];
> +#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
> + unsigned int nr_free_vmemmap_pages;
> +#endif
> #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_HUGETLB
> /* cgroup control files */
> struct cftype cgroup_files_dfl[7];
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 81a41aa080a5..f1b2b733b49b 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -1292,6 +1292,39 @@ static inline void destroy_compound_gigantic_page(struct page *page,
> unsigned int order) { }
> #endif
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
> +#define RESERVE_VMEMMAP_NR 2U
> +
> +static inline unsigned int nr_free_vmemmap(struct hstate *h)
> +{
> + return h->nr_free_vmemmap_pages;
> +}
> +
> +static void __init hugetlb_vmemmap_init(struct hstate *h)
> +{
> + unsigned int order = huge_page_order(h);
> + unsigned int vmemmap_pages;
> +
> + vmemmap_pages = ((1 << order) * sizeof(struct page)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> + /*
> + * The head page and the first tail page not free to buddy system,
> + * the others page will map to the first tail page. So there are
> + * (@vmemmap_pages - RESERVE_VMEMMAP_NR) pages can be freed.
> + */
> + if (vmemmap_pages > RESERVE_VMEMMAP_NR)
> + h->nr_free_vmemmap_pages = vmemmap_pages - RESERVE_VMEMMAP_NR;
> + else
> + h->nr_free_vmemmap_pages = 0;
> +
> + pr_info("HugeTLB: can free %d vmemmap pages for %s\n",
> + h->nr_free_vmemmap_pages, h->name);
> +}
> +#else
> +static inline void hugetlb_vmemmap_init(struct hstate *h)
> +{
> +}
> +#endif
> +
> static void update_and_free_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page)
> {
> int i;
> @@ -3285,6 +3318,8 @@ void __init hugetlb_add_hstate(unsigned int order)
> snprintf(h->name, HSTATE_NAME_LEN, "hugepages-%lukB",
> huge_page_size(h)/1024);
>
> + hugetlb_vmemmap_init(h);
> +
> parsed_hstate = h;
> }
>
>
