[patch 098/111] mm/hugetlb.c: don't zero 1GiB bootmem pages

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From: Cannon Matthews <cannonmatthews@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/hugetlb.c: don't zero 1GiB bootmem pages

When using 1GiB pages during early boot, use the new
memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid_raw() to allocate memory without zeroing it. 
Zeroing out hundreds or thousands of GiB in a single core memset() call is
very slow, and can make early boot last upwards of 20-30 minutes on multi
TiB machines.

The memory does not need to be zero'd as the hugetlb pages are always
zero'd on page fault.

Tested: Booted with ~3800 1G pages, and it booted successfully in roughly
the same amount of time as with 0, as opposed to the 25+ minutes it would
take before.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180711213313.92481-1-cannonmatthews@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Cannon Matthews <cannonmatthews@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/hugetlb.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/hugetlb.c~mm-hugetlb-dont-zero-1gib-bootmem-pages
+++ a/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2101,7 +2101,7 @@ int __alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hst
 	for_each_node_mask_to_alloc(h, nr_nodes, node, &node_states[N_MEMORY]) {
 		void *addr;
 
-		addr = memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid_nopanic(
+		addr = memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid_raw(
 				huge_page_size(h), huge_page_size(h),
 				0, BOOTMEM_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE, node);
 		if (addr) {
@@ -2119,6 +2119,7 @@ int __alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hst
 found:
 	BUG_ON(!IS_ALIGNED(virt_to_phys(m), huge_page_size(h)));
 	/* 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;
 	return 1;
_



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