The patch titled
Subject: mm: hugetlb: optionally allocate gigantic hugepages using cma
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-hugetlb-optionally-allocate-gigantic-hugepages-using-cma.patch
This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged
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From: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
Subject: mm: hugetlb: optionally allocate gigantic hugepages using cma
Commit 944d9fec8d7a ("hugetlb: add support for gigantic page allocation at
runtime") has added the run-time allocation of gigantic pages. However it
actually works only at early stages of the system loading, when the
majority of memory is free. After some time the memory gets fragmented by
non-movable pages, so the chances to find a contiguous 1 GB block are
getting close to zero. Even dropping caches manually doesn't help a lot.
At large scale rebooting servers in order to allocate gigantic hugepages
is quite expensive and complex. At the same time keeping some constant
percentage of memory in reserved hugepages even if the workload isn't
using it is a big waste: not all workloads can benefit from using 1 GB
pages.
The following solution can solve the problem:
1) On boot time a dedicated cma area* is reserved. The size is passed
as a kernel argument.
2) Run-time allocations of gigantic hugepages are performed using the
cma allocator and the dedicated cma area
In this case gigantic hugepages can be allocated successfully with a high
probability, however the memory isn't completely wasted if nobody is using
1GB hugepages: it can be used for pagecache, anon memory, THPs, etc.
* On a multi-node machine a per-node cma area is allocated on each node.
Following gigantic hugetlb allocation are using the first available
numa node if the mask isn't specified by a user.
Usage:
1) configure the kernel to allocate a cma area for hugetlb allocations:
pass hugetlb_cma=10G as a kernel argument
2) allocate hugetlb pages as usual, e.g.
echo 10 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages
If the option isn't enabled or the allocation of the cma area failed,
the current behavior of the system is preserved.
x86 and arm-64 are covered by this patch, other architectures can be
trivially added later.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200311220920.2487528-1-guro@xxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
Tested-by: Andreas Schaufler <andreas.schaufler@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andreas Schaufler <andreas.schaufler@xxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7
arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 6
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 4
include/linux/hugetlb.h | 8
mm/hugetlb.c | 116 ++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 141 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c~mm-hugetlb-optionally-allocate-gigantic-hugepages-using-cma
+++ a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/kexec.h>
#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
+#include <linux/hugetlb.h>
#include <asm/boot.h>
#include <asm/fixmap.h>
@@ -457,6 +458,11 @@ void __init arm64_memblock_init(void)
high_memory = __va(memblock_end_of_DRAM() - 1) + 1;
dma_contiguous_reserve(arm64_dma32_phys_limit);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_4K_PAGES
+ hugetlb_cma_reserve(PUD_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT);
+#endif
+
}
void __init bootmem_init(void)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c~mm-hugetlb-optionally-allocate-gigantic-hugepages-using-cma
+++ a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/pci.h>
#include <linux/root_dev.h>
#include <linux/sfi.h>
+#include <linux/hugetlb.h>
#include <linux/tboot.h>
#include <linux/usb/xhci-dbgp.h>
@@ -1157,6 +1158,9 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
initmem_init();
dma_contiguous_reserve(max_pfn_mapped << PAGE_SHIFT);
+ if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_GBPAGES))
+ hugetlb_cma_reserve(PUD_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT);
+
/*
* Reserve memory for crash kernel after SRAT is parsed so that it
* won't consume hotpluggable memory.
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt~mm-hugetlb-optionally-allocate-gigantic-hugepages-using-cma
+++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1475,6 +1475,13 @@
hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
+ hugetlb_cma= [x86-64] The size of a cma area used for allocation
+ of gigantic hugepages.
+ Format: nn[KMGTPE]
+
+ If enabled, boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages
+ is skipped.
+
hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h~mm-hugetlb-optionally-allocate-gigantic-hugepages-using-cma
+++ a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -895,4 +895,12 @@ static inline spinlock_t *huge_pte_lock(
return ptl;
}
+#if defined(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE) && defined(CONFIG_CMA)
+extern void __init hugetlb_cma_reserve(int order);
+#else
+static inline __init void hugetlb_cma_reserve(int order)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
#endif /* _LINUX_HUGETLB_H */
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c~mm-hugetlb-optionally-allocate-gigantic-hugepages-using-cma
+++ a/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
#include <linux/jhash.h>
#include <linux/numa.h>
#include <linux/llist.h>
+#include <linux/cma.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
@@ -44,6 +45,9 @@
int hugetlb_max_hstate __read_mostly;
unsigned int default_hstate_idx;
struct hstate hstates[HUGE_MAX_HSTATE];
+
+static struct cma *hugetlb_cma[MAX_NUMNODES];
+
/*
* Minimum page order among possible hugepage sizes, set to a proper value
* at boot time.
@@ -1228,6 +1232,14 @@ static void destroy_compound_gigantic_pa
static void free_gigantic_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
{
+ /*
+ * If the page isn't allocated using the cma allocator,
+ * cma_release() returns false.
+ */
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CMA) &&
+ cma_release(hugetlb_cma[page_to_nid(page)], page, 1 << order))
+ return;
+
free_contig_range(page_to_pfn(page), 1 << order);
}
@@ -1237,6 +1249,21 @@ static struct page *alloc_gigantic_page(
{
unsigned long nr_pages = 1UL << huge_page_order(h);
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CMA)) {
+ struct page *page;
+ int node;
+
+ for_each_node_mask(node, *nodemask) {
+ if (!hugetlb_cma[node])
+ break;
+
+ page = cma_alloc(hugetlb_cma[node], nr_pages,
+ huge_page_order(h), true);
+ if (page)
+ return page;
+ }
+ }
+
return alloc_contig_pages(nr_pages, gfp_mask, nid, nodemask);
}
@@ -2539,6 +2566,10 @@ static void __init hugetlb_hstate_alloc_
for (i = 0; i < h->max_huge_pages; ++i) {
if (hstate_is_gigantic(h)) {
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CMA) && hugetlb_cma[0]) {
+ pr_warn_once("HugeTLB: hugetlb_cma is enabled, skip boot time allocation\n");
+ break;
+ }
if (!alloc_bootmem_huge_page(h))
break;
} else if (!alloc_pool_huge_page(h,
@@ -5506,3 +5537,88 @@ void move_hugetlb_state(struct page *old
spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
}
}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_CMA
+static unsigned long hugetlb_cma_size __initdata;
+
+static int __init cmdline_parse_hugetlb_cma(char *p)
+{
+ unsigned long long val;
+ char *endptr;
+
+ if (!p)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ val = simple_strtoull(p, &endptr, 0);
+ hugetlb_cma_size = memparse(p, &p);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+early_param("hugetlb_cma", cmdline_parse_hugetlb_cma);
+
+void __init hugetlb_cma_reserve(int order)
+{
+ unsigned long size, reserved, per_node;
+ int nid;
+
+ if (!hugetlb_cma_size)
+ return;
+
+ if (hugetlb_cma_size < (PAGE_SIZE << order)) {
+ pr_warn("hugetlb_cma: cma area should be at least %lu MiB\n",
+ (PAGE_SIZE << order) / SZ_1M);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If 3 GB area is requested on a machine with 4 numa nodes,
+ * let's allocate 1 GB on first three nodes and ignore the last one.
+ */
+ per_node = DIV_ROUND_UP(hugetlb_cma_size, nr_online_nodes);
+ pr_info("hugetlb_cma: reserve %lu MiB, up to %lu MiB per node\n",
+ hugetlb_cma_size / SZ_1M, per_node / SZ_1M);
+
+ reserved = 0;
+ for_each_node_state(nid, N_ONLINE) {
+ unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn;
+ unsigned long min_pfn = 0, max_pfn = 0;
+ int res, i;
+
+ for_each_mem_pfn_range(i, nid, &start_pfn, &end_pfn, NULL) {
+ if (!min_pfn)
+ min_pfn = start_pfn;
+ max_pfn = end_pfn;
+ }
+
+ size = max(per_node, hugetlb_cma_size - reserved);
+ size = round_up(size, PAGE_SIZE << order);
+
+ if (size > ((max_pfn - min_pfn) << PAGE_SHIFT) / 2) {
+ pr_warn("hugetlb_cma: cma_area is too big, please try less than %lu MiB\n",
+ round_down(((max_pfn - min_pfn) << PAGE_SHIFT) *
+ nr_online_nodes / 2 / SZ_1M,
+ PAGE_SIZE << order));
+ break;
+ }
+
+ res = cma_declare_contiguous(PFN_PHYS(min_pfn), size,
+ PFN_PHYS(max_pfn),
+ PAGE_SIZE << order,
+ 0, false,
+ "hugetlb", &hugetlb_cma[nid]);
+ if (res) {
+ pr_warn("hugetlb_cma: reservation failed: err %d, node %d, [%llu, %llu)",
+ res, nid, PFN_PHYS(min_pfn), PFN_PHYS(max_pfn));
+ break;
+ }
+
+ reserved += size;
+ pr_info("hugetlb_cma: reserved %lu MiB on node %d\n",
+ size / SZ_1M, nid);
+
+ if (reserved >= hugetlb_cma_size)
+ break;
+ }
+}
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_CMA */
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from guro@xxxxxx are
mmpage_alloccma-conditionally-prefer-cma-pageblocks-for-movable-allocations.patch
mmpage_alloccma-conditionally-prefer-cma-pageblocks-for-movable-allocations-fix.patch
mm-hugetlb-optionally-allocate-gigantic-hugepages-using-cma-fix-2.patch
