The patch titled
Subject: mm/sparsemem: introduce struct mem_section_usage
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-sparsemem-introduce-struct-mem_section_usage.patch
This patch was dropped because it was withdrawn
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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/sparsemem: introduce struct mem_section_usage
The memory hotplug section is an arbitrary / convenient unit for memory
hotplug. 'Section-size' units have bled into the user interface
('memblock' sysfs) and can not be changed without breaking existing
userspace. The section-size constraint, while mostly benign for typical
memory hotplug, has and continues to wreak havoc with 'device-memory' use
cases, persistent memory (pmem) in particular. Recall that pmem uses
devm_memremap_pages(), and subsequently arch_add_memory(), to allocate a
'struct page' memmap for pmem. However, it does not use the 'bottom half'
of memory hotplug, i.e. never marks pmem pages online and never exposes
the userspace memblock interface for pmem. This leaves an opening to
redress the section-size constraint.
To date, the libnvdimm subsystem has attempted to inject padding to
satisfy the internal constraints of arch_add_memory(). Beyond
complicating the code, leading to bugs [2], wasting memory, and limiting
configuration flexibility, the padding hack is broken when the platform
changes this physical memory alignment of pmem from one boot to the next.
Device failure (intermittent or permanent) and physical reconfiguration
are events that can cause the platform firmware to change the physical
placement of pmem on a subsequent boot, and device failure is an everyday
event in a data-center.
It turns out that sections are only a hard requirement of the user-facing
interface for memory hotplug and with a bit more infrastructure
sub-section arch_add_memory() support can be added for kernel internal
usages like devm_memremap_pages(). Here is an analysis of the current
design assumptions in the current code and how they are addressed in the
new implementation:
Current design assumptions:
- Sections that describe boot memory (early sections) are never
unplugged / removed.
- pfn_valid(), in the CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=y, case devolves to a
valid_section() check
- __add_pages() and helper routines assume all operations occur in
PAGES_PER_SECTION units.
- The memblock sysfs interface only comprehends full sections
New design assumptions:
- Sections are instrumented with a sub-section bitmask to track (on x86)
individual 2MB sub-divisions of a 128MB section.
- Partially populated early sections can be extended with additional
sub-sections, and those sub-sections can be removed with
arch_remove_memory(). With this in place we no longer lose usable memory
capacity to padding.
- pfn_valid() is updated to look deeper than valid_section() to also check the
active-sub-section mask. This indication is in the same cacheline as
the valid_section() so the performance impact is expected to be
negligible. So far the lkp robot has not reported any regressions.
- Outside of the core vmemmap population routines which are replaced,
other helper routines like shrink_{zone,pgdat}_span() are updated to
handle the smaller granularity. Core memory hotplug routines that deal
with online memory are not touched.
- The existing memblock sysfs user api guarantees / assumptions are
not touched since this capability is limited to !online
!memblock-sysfs-accessible sections.
Meanwhile the issue reports continue to roll in from users that do not
understand when and how the 128MB constraint will bite them. The current
implementation relied on being able to support at least one misaligned
namespace, but that immediately falls over on any moderately complex
namespace creation attempt. Beyond the initial problem of 'System RAM'
colliding with pmem, and the unsolvable problem of physical alignment
changes, Linux is now being exposed to platforms that collide pmem ranges
with other pmem ranges by default [3]. In short, devm_memremap_pages()
has pushed the venerable section-size constraint past the breaking point,
and the simplicity of section-aligned arch_add_memory() is no longer
tenable.
These patches are exposed to the kbuild robot on my libnvdimm-pending
branch [4], and a preview of the unit test for this functionality is
available on the 'subsection-pending' branch of ndctl [5].
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/155000671719.348031.2347363160141119237.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[3]: https://github.com/pmem/ndctl/issues/76
[4]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm.git/log/?h=libnvdimm-pending
[5]: https://github.com/pmem/ndctl/commit/7c59b4867e1c
This patch (of 12):
Towards enabling memory hotplug to track partial population of a section,
introduce 'struct mem_section_usage'.
A pointer to a 'struct mem_section_usage' instance replaces the existing
pointer to a 'pageblock_flags' bitmap. Effectively it adds one more
'unsigned long' beyond the 'pageblock_flags' (usemap) allocation to house
a new 'map_active' bitmap. The new bitmap enables the memory
hot{plug,remove} implementation to act on incremental sub-divisions of a
section.
The primary motivation for this functionality is to support platforms that
mix "System RAM" and "Persistent Memory" within a single section, or
multiple PMEM ranges with different mapping lifetimes within a single
section. The section restriction for hotplug has caused an ongoing saga
of hacks and bugs for devm_memremap_pages() users.
Beyond the fixups to teach existing paths how to retrieve the 'usemap'
from a section, and updates to usemap allocation path, there are no
expected behavior changes.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155552634075.2015392.3371070426600230054.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mmzone.h | 23 +++++++++--
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 18 ++++----
mm/page_alloc.c | 2
mm/sparse.c | 81 +++++++++++++++++++--------------------
4 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h~mm-sparsemem-introduce-struct-mem_section_usage
+++ a/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -1102,6 +1102,19 @@ static inline unsigned long section_nr_t
#define SECTION_ALIGN_UP(pfn) (((pfn) + PAGES_PER_SECTION - 1) & PAGE_SECTION_MASK)
#define SECTION_ALIGN_DOWN(pfn) ((pfn) & PAGE_SECTION_MASK)
+#define SECTION_ACTIVE_SIZE ((1UL << SECTION_SIZE_BITS) / BITS_PER_LONG)
+#define SECTION_ACTIVE_MASK (~(SECTION_ACTIVE_SIZE - 1))
+
+struct mem_section_usage {
+ /*
+ * SECTION_ACTIVE_SIZE portions of the section that are populated in
+ * the memmap
+ */
+ unsigned long map_active;
+ /* See declaration of similar field in struct zone */
+ unsigned long pageblock_flags[0];
+};
+
struct page;
struct page_ext;
struct mem_section {
@@ -1119,8 +1132,7 @@ struct mem_section {
*/
unsigned long section_mem_map;
- /* See declaration of similar field in struct zone */
- unsigned long *pageblock_flags;
+ struct mem_section_usage *usage;
#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION
/*
* If SPARSEMEM, pgdat doesn't have page_ext pointer. We use
@@ -1151,6 +1163,11 @@ extern struct mem_section **mem_section;
extern struct mem_section mem_section[NR_SECTION_ROOTS][SECTIONS_PER_ROOT];
#endif
+static inline unsigned long *section_to_usemap(struct mem_section *ms)
+{
+ return ms->usage->pageblock_flags;
+}
+
static inline struct mem_section *__nr_to_section(unsigned long nr)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
@@ -1162,7 +1179,7 @@ static inline struct mem_section *__nr_t
return &mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)][nr & SECTION_ROOT_MASK];
}
extern int __section_nr(struct mem_section* ms);
-extern unsigned long usemap_size(void);
+extern size_t mem_section_usage_size(void);
/*
* We use the lower bits of the mem_map pointer to store
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c~mm-sparsemem-introduce-struct-mem_section_usage
+++ a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -164,9 +164,10 @@ void put_page_bootmem(struct page *page)
#ifndef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
static void register_page_bootmem_info_section(unsigned long start_pfn)
{
- unsigned long *usemap, mapsize, section_nr, i;
+ unsigned long mapsize, section_nr, i;
struct mem_section *ms;
struct page *page, *memmap;
+ struct mem_section_usage *usage;
section_nr = pfn_to_section_nr(start_pfn);
ms = __nr_to_section(section_nr);
@@ -186,10 +187,10 @@ static void register_page_bootmem_info_s
for (i = 0; i < mapsize; i++, page++)
get_page_bootmem(section_nr, page, SECTION_INFO);
- usemap = ms->pageblock_flags;
- page = virt_to_page(usemap);
+ usage = ms->usage;
+ page = virt_to_page(usage);
- mapsize = PAGE_ALIGN(usemap_size()) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ mapsize = PAGE_ALIGN(mem_section_usage_size()) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
for (i = 0; i < mapsize; i++, page++)
get_page_bootmem(section_nr, page, MIX_SECTION_INFO);
@@ -198,9 +199,10 @@ static void register_page_bootmem_info_s
#else /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP */
static void register_page_bootmem_info_section(unsigned long start_pfn)
{
- unsigned long *usemap, mapsize, section_nr, i;
+ unsigned long mapsize, section_nr, i;
struct mem_section *ms;
struct page *page, *memmap;
+ struct mem_section_usage *usage;
section_nr = pfn_to_section_nr(start_pfn);
ms = __nr_to_section(section_nr);
@@ -209,10 +211,10 @@ static void register_page_bootmem_info_s
register_page_bootmem_memmap(section_nr, memmap, PAGES_PER_SECTION);
- usemap = ms->pageblock_flags;
- page = virt_to_page(usemap);
+ usage = ms->usage;
+ page = virt_to_page(usage);
- mapsize = PAGE_ALIGN(usemap_size()) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ mapsize = PAGE_ALIGN(mem_section_usage_size()) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
for (i = 0; i < mapsize; i++, page++)
get_page_bootmem(section_nr, page, MIX_SECTION_INFO);
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-sparsemem-introduce-struct-mem_section_usage
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ static inline unsigned long *get_pageblo
unsigned long pfn)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
- return __pfn_to_section(pfn)->pageblock_flags;
+ return section_to_usemap(__pfn_to_section(pfn));
#else
return page_zone(page)->pageblock_flags;
#endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM */
--- a/mm/sparse.c~mm-sparsemem-introduce-struct-mem_section_usage
+++ a/mm/sparse.c
@@ -288,33 +288,31 @@ struct page *sparse_decode_mem_map(unsig
static void __meminit sparse_init_one_section(struct mem_section *ms,
unsigned long pnum, struct page *mem_map,
- unsigned long *pageblock_bitmap)
+ struct mem_section_usage *usage)
{
ms->section_mem_map &= ~SECTION_MAP_MASK;
ms->section_mem_map |= sparse_encode_mem_map(mem_map, pnum) |
SECTION_HAS_MEM_MAP;
- ms->pageblock_flags = pageblock_bitmap;
+ ms->usage = usage;
}
-unsigned long usemap_size(void)
+static unsigned long usemap_size(void)
{
return BITS_TO_LONGS(SECTION_BLOCKFLAGS_BITS) * sizeof(unsigned long);
}
-#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
-static unsigned long *__kmalloc_section_usemap(void)
+size_t mem_section_usage_size(void)
{
- return kmalloc(usemap_size(), GFP_KERNEL);
+ return sizeof(struct mem_section_usage) + usemap_size();
}
-#endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG */
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
-static unsigned long * __init
+static struct mem_section_usage * __init
sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_pgdat_section(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
unsigned long size)
{
+ struct mem_section_usage *usage;
unsigned long goal, limit;
- unsigned long *p;
int nid;
/*
* A page may contain usemaps for other sections preventing the
@@ -330,15 +328,16 @@ sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_pgdat_section
limit = goal + (1UL << PA_SECTION_SHIFT);
nid = early_pfn_to_nid(goal >> PAGE_SHIFT);
again:
- p = memblock_alloc_try_nid(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, goal, limit, nid);
- if (!p && limit) {
+ usage = memblock_alloc_try_nid(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, goal, limit, nid);
+ if (!usage && limit) {
limit = 0;
goto again;
}
- return p;
+ return usage;
}
-static void __init check_usemap_section_nr(int nid, unsigned long *usemap)
+static void __init check_usemap_section_nr(int nid,
+ struct mem_section_usage *usage)
{
unsigned long usemap_snr, pgdat_snr;
static unsigned long old_usemap_snr;
@@ -352,7 +351,7 @@ static void __init check_usemap_section_
old_pgdat_snr = NR_MEM_SECTIONS;
}
- usemap_snr = pfn_to_section_nr(__pa(usemap) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+ usemap_snr = pfn_to_section_nr(__pa(usage) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
pgdat_snr = pfn_to_section_nr(__pa(pgdat) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
if (usemap_snr == pgdat_snr)
return;
@@ -380,14 +379,15 @@ static void __init check_usemap_section_
usemap_snr, pgdat_snr, nid);
}
#else
-static unsigned long * __init
+static struct mem_section_usage * __init
sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_pgdat_section(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
unsigned long size)
{
return memblock_alloc_node(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, pgdat->node_id);
}
-static void __init check_usemap_section_nr(int nid, unsigned long *usemap)
+static void __init check_usemap_section_nr(int nid,
+ struct mem_section_usage *usage)
{
}
#endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE */
@@ -474,14 +474,13 @@ static void __init sparse_init_nid(int n
unsigned long pnum_end,
unsigned long map_count)
{
- unsigned long pnum, usemap_longs, *usemap;
+ struct mem_section_usage *usage;
+ unsigned long pnum;
struct page *map;
- usemap_longs = BITS_TO_LONGS(SECTION_BLOCKFLAGS_BITS);
- usemap = sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_pgdat_section(NODE_DATA(nid),
- usemap_size() *
- map_count);
- if (!usemap) {
+ usage = sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_pgdat_section(NODE_DATA(nid),
+ mem_section_usage_size() * map_count);
+ if (!usage) {
pr_err("%s: node[%d] usemap allocation failed", __func__, nid);
goto failed;
}
@@ -497,9 +496,9 @@ static void __init sparse_init_nid(int n
pnum_begin = pnum;
goto failed;
}
- check_usemap_section_nr(nid, usemap);
- sparse_init_one_section(__nr_to_section(pnum), pnum, map, usemap);
- usemap += usemap_longs;
+ check_usemap_section_nr(nid, usage);
+ sparse_init_one_section(__nr_to_section(pnum), pnum, map, usage);
+ usage = (void *) usage + mem_section_usage_size();
}
sparse_buffer_fini();
return;
@@ -701,9 +700,9 @@ int __meminit sparse_add_one_section(int
struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
{
unsigned long section_nr = pfn_to_section_nr(start_pfn);
+ struct mem_section_usage *usage;
struct mem_section *ms;
struct page *memmap;
- unsigned long *usemap;
int ret;
/*
@@ -717,8 +716,8 @@ int __meminit sparse_add_one_section(int
memmap = kmalloc_section_memmap(section_nr, nid, altmap);
if (!memmap)
return -ENOMEM;
- usemap = __kmalloc_section_usemap();
- if (!usemap) {
+ usage = kzalloc(mem_section_usage_size(), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!usage) {
__kfree_section_memmap(memmap, altmap);
return -ENOMEM;
}
@@ -736,11 +735,11 @@ int __meminit sparse_add_one_section(int
page_init_poison(memmap, sizeof(struct page) * PAGES_PER_SECTION);
section_mark_present(ms);
- sparse_init_one_section(ms, section_nr, memmap, usemap);
+ sparse_init_one_section(ms, section_nr, memmap, usage);
out:
if (ret < 0) {
- kfree(usemap);
+ kfree(usage);
__kfree_section_memmap(memmap, altmap);
}
return ret;
@@ -777,20 +776,20 @@ static inline void clear_hwpoisoned_page
}
#endif
-static void free_section_usemap(struct page *memmap, unsigned long *usemap,
- struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
+static void free_section_usage(struct page *memmap,
+ struct mem_section_usage *usage, struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
{
- struct page *usemap_page;
+ struct page *usage_page;
- if (!usemap)
+ if (!usage)
return;
- usemap_page = virt_to_page(usemap);
+ usage_page = virt_to_page(usage);
/*
* Check to see if allocation came from hot-plug-add
*/
- if (PageSlab(usemap_page) || PageCompound(usemap_page)) {
- kfree(usemap);
+ if (PageSlab(usage_page) || PageCompound(usage_page)) {
+ kfree(usage);
if (memmap)
__kfree_section_memmap(memmap, altmap);
return;
@@ -809,19 +808,19 @@ void sparse_remove_one_section(struct zo
unsigned long map_offset, struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
{
struct page *memmap = NULL;
- unsigned long *usemap = NULL;
+ struct mem_section_usage *usage = NULL;
if (ms->section_mem_map) {
- usemap = ms->pageblock_flags;
+ usage = ms->usage;
memmap = sparse_decode_mem_map(ms->section_mem_map,
__section_nr(ms));
ms->section_mem_map = 0;
- ms->pageblock_flags = NULL;
+ ms->usage = NULL;
}
clear_hwpoisoned_pages(memmap + map_offset,
PAGES_PER_SECTION - map_offset);
- free_section_usemap(memmap, usemap, altmap);
+ free_section_usage(memmap, usage, altmap);
}
#endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE */
#endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG */
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx are
mm-sparsemem-introduce-common-definitions-for-the-size-and-mask-of-a-section.patch
mm-sparsemem-add-helpers-track-active-portions-of-a-section-at-boot.patch
mm-hotplug-prepare-shrink_zone-pgdat_span-for-sub-section-removal.patch
mm-sparsemem-convert-kmalloc_section_memmap-to-populate_section_memmap.patch
mm-hotplug-add-mem-hotplug-restrictions-for-remove_memory.patch
mm-kill-is_dev_zone-helper.patch
mm-sparsemem-prepare-for-sub-section-ranges.patch
mm-sparsemem-support-sub-section-hotplug.patch
mm-devm_memremap_pages-enable-sub-section-remap.patch
libnvdimm-pfn-fix-fsdax-mode-namespace-info-block-zero-fields.patch
libnvdimm-pfn-stop-padding-pmem-namespaces-to-section-alignment.patch
mm-shuffle-initial-free-memory-to-improve-memory-side-cache-utilization.patch
mm-shuffle-initial-free-memory-to-improve-memory-side-cache-utilization-fix.patch
mm-move-buddy-list-manipulations-into-helpers.patch
mm-move-buddy-list-manipulations-into-helpers-fix.patch
mm-maintain-randomization-of-page-free-lists.patch
