Re: [PATCH v4] arm64: mm: fix linear mem mapping access performance degradation

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Thanks.

在 2022/7/6 4:45, Mike Rapoport 写道:
On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 06:05:01PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 06:57:53PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 04:34:09PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 06:02:02PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
+void __init remap_crashkernel(void)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
+	phys_addr_t start, end, size;
+	phys_addr_t aligned_start, aligned_end;
+
+	if (can_set_direct_map() || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KFENCE))
+	    return;
+
+	if (!crashk_res.end)
+	    return;
+
+	start = crashk_res.start & PAGE_MASK;
+	end = PAGE_ALIGN(crashk_res.end);
+
+	aligned_start = ALIGN_DOWN(crashk_res.start, PUD_SIZE);
+	aligned_end = ALIGN(end, PUD_SIZE);
+
+	/* Clear PUDs containing crash kernel memory */
+	unmap_hotplug_range(__phys_to_virt(aligned_start),
+			    __phys_to_virt(aligned_end), false, NULL);

What I don't understand is what happens if there's valid kernel data
between aligned_start and crashk_res.start (or the other end of the
range).

Data shouldn't go anywhere :)

There is

+	/* map area from PUD start to start of crash kernel with large pages */
+	size = start - aligned_start;
+	__create_pgd_mapping(swapper_pg_dir, aligned_start,
+			     __phys_to_virt(aligned_start),
+			     size, PAGE_KERNEL, early_pgtable_alloc, 0);

and

+	/* map area from end of crash kernel to PUD end with large pages */
+	size = aligned_end - end;
+	__create_pgd_mapping(swapper_pg_dir, end, __phys_to_virt(end),
+			     size, PAGE_KERNEL, early_pgtable_alloc, 0);

after the unmap, so after we tear down a part of a linear map we
immediately recreate it, just with a different page size.

This all happens before SMP, so there is no concurrency at that point.

That brief period of unmap worries me. The kernel text, data and stack
are all in the vmalloc space but any other (memblock) allocation to this
point may be in the unmapped range before and after the crashkernel
reservation. The interrupts are off, so I think the only allocation and
potential access that may go in this range is the page table itself. But
it looks fragile to me.

I agree there are chances there will be an allocation from the unmapped
range.

We can make sure this won't happen, though. We can cap the memblock
allocations with memblock_set_current_limit(aligned_end) or
memblock_reserve(algined_start, aligned_end) until the mappings are
restored.
--
Catalin

I think there is no need to worry about vmalloc mem.

1.As mentioned above,
When reserving crashkernel and remapping linear mem mapping, there is only one boot cpu running. There is no other cpu/thread running at the same time.

2.Although vmalloc may alloc mem from the ummaped area, but we will rebuid remapping using pte level mapping which keeps virtual address to the same physical address
(At the same time, no other cpu/thread is access vmalloc mem).

As a result, it has no effect to vmalloc mem.




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