The patch titled
Subject: mm/page_alloc: place pages to tail in __free_pages_core()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-page_alloc-place-pages-to-tail-in-__free_pages_core.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/page_alloc: place pages to tail in __free_pages_core()
__free_pages_core() is used when exposing fresh memory to the buddy during
system boot and when onlining memory in generic_online_page().
generic_online_page() is used in two cases:
1. Direct memory onlining in online_pages().
2. Deferred memory onlining in memory-ballooning-like mechanisms (HyperV
balloon and virtio-mem), when parts of a section are kept
fake-offline to be fake-onlined later on.
In 1, we already place pages to the tail of the freelist. Pages will be
freed to MIGRATE_ISOLATE lists first and moved to the tail of the
freelists via undo_isolate_page_range().
In 2, we currently don't implement a proper rule. In case of virtio-mem,
where we currently always online MAX_ORDER - 1 pages, the pages will be
placed to the HEAD of the freelist - undesireable. While the hyper-v
balloon calls generic_online_page() with single pages, usually it will
call it on successive single pages in a larger block.
The pages are fresh, so place them to the tail of the freelist and avoid
the PCP. In __free_pages_core(), remove the now superflouos call to
set_page_refcounted() and add a comment regarding page initialization and
the refcount.
Note: In 2. we currently don't shuffle. If ever relevant (page shuffling
is usually of limited use in virtualized environments), we might want to
shuffle after a sequence of generic_online_page() calls in the relevant
callers.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201005121534.15649-5-david@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Scott Cheloha <cheloha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-place-pages-to-tail-in-__free_pages_core
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -275,7 +275,8 @@ bool pm_suspended_storage(void)
unsigned int pageblock_order __read_mostly;
#endif
-static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
+static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
+ fpi_t fpi_flags);
/*
* results with 256, 32 in the lowmem_reserve sysctl:
@@ -687,7 +688,7 @@ out:
void free_compound_page(struct page *page)
{
mem_cgroup_uncharge(page);
- __free_pages_ok(page, compound_order(page));
+ __free_pages_ok(page, compound_order(page), FPI_NONE);
}
void prep_compound_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
@@ -1423,14 +1424,14 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zo
static void free_one_page(struct zone *zone,
struct page *page, unsigned long pfn,
unsigned int order,
- int migratetype)
+ int migratetype, fpi_t fpi_flags)
{
spin_lock(&zone->lock);
if (unlikely(has_isolate_pageblock(zone) ||
is_migrate_isolate(migratetype))) {
migratetype = get_pfnblock_migratetype(page, pfn);
}
- __free_one_page(page, pfn, zone, order, migratetype, FPI_NONE);
+ __free_one_page(page, pfn, zone, order, migratetype, fpi_flags);
spin_unlock(&zone->lock);
}
@@ -1508,7 +1509,8 @@ void __meminit reserve_bootmem_region(ph
}
}
-static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
+static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
+ fpi_t fpi_flags)
{
unsigned long flags;
int migratetype;
@@ -1520,7 +1522,8 @@ static void __free_pages_ok(struct page
migratetype = get_pfnblock_migratetype(page, pfn);
local_irq_save(flags);
__count_vm_events(PGFREE, 1 << order);
- free_one_page(page_zone(page), page, pfn, order, migratetype);
+ free_one_page(page_zone(page), page, pfn, order, migratetype,
+ fpi_flags);
local_irq_restore(flags);
}
@@ -1530,6 +1533,11 @@ void __free_pages_core(struct page *page
struct page *p = page;
unsigned int loop;
+ /*
+ * When initializing the memmap, __init_single_page() sets the refcount
+ * of all pages to 1 ("allocated"/"not free"). We have to set the
+ * refcount of all involved pages to 0.
+ */
prefetchw(p);
for (loop = 0; loop < (nr_pages - 1); loop++, p++) {
prefetchw(p + 1);
@@ -1540,8 +1548,12 @@ void __free_pages_core(struct page *page
set_page_count(p, 0);
atomic_long_add(nr_pages, &page_zone(page)->managed_pages);
- set_page_refcounted(page);
- __free_pages(page, order);
+
+ /*
+ * Bypass PCP and place fresh pages right to the tail, primarily
+ * relevant for memory onlining.
+ */
+ __free_pages_ok(page, order, FPI_TO_TAIL);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
@@ -3168,7 +3180,8 @@ static void free_unref_page_commit(struc
*/
if (migratetype >= MIGRATE_PCPTYPES) {
if (unlikely(is_migrate_isolate(migratetype))) {
- free_one_page(zone, page, pfn, 0, migratetype);
+ free_one_page(zone, page, pfn, 0, migratetype,
+ FPI_NONE);
return;
}
migratetype = MIGRATE_MOVABLE;
@@ -4991,7 +5004,7 @@ static inline void free_the_page(struct
if (order == 0) /* Via pcp? */
free_unref_page(page);
else
- __free_pages_ok(page, order);
+ __free_pages_ok(page, order, FPI_NONE);
}
void __free_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
_
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