linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/sparsemem: Defer the ms->section_mem

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Message-Id: <20180222091130.32165-3-bhe@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:11:29 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dave.hansen@...el.com
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, mhocko@...e.com,
        tglx@...utronix.de, Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/sparsemem: Defer the ms->section_mem_map clearing

In sparse_init(), if CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER=y, system
will allocate one continuous memory chunk for mem maps on one node and
populate the relevant page tables to map memory section one by one. If
fail to populate for a certain mem section, print warning and its
->section_mem_map will be cleared to cancel the marking of being present.
Like this, the number of mem sections marked as present could become
less during sparse_init() execution.

Here just defer the ms->section_mem_map clearing if failed to populate
its page tables until the last for_each_present_section_nr() loop. This
is in preparation for later optimizing the mem map allocation.

Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
---
 mm/sparse-vmemmap.c |  1 -
 mm/sparse.c         | 12 ++++++++----
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
index bd0276d5f66b..640e68f8324b 100644
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -303,7 +303,6 @@ void __init sparse_mem_maps_populate_node(struct page **map_map,
 		ms = __nr_to_section(pnum);
 		pr_err("%s: sparsemem memory map backing failed some memory will not be available\n",
 		       __func__);
-		ms->section_mem_map = 0;
 	}
 
 	if (vmemmap_buf_start) {
diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index 433d3c9b4b56..e9311b44e28a 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -485,7 +485,6 @@ void __init sparse_mem_maps_populate_node(struct page **map_map,
 		ms = __nr_to_section(pnum);
 		pr_err("%s: sparsemem memory map backing failed some memory will not be available\n",
 		       __func__);
-		ms->section_mem_map = 0;
 	}
 }
 #endif /* !CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP */
@@ -513,7 +512,6 @@ static struct page __init *sparse_early_mem_map_alloc(unsigned long pnum)
 
 	pr_err("%s: sparsemem memory map backing failed some memory will not be available\n",
 	       __func__);
-	ms->section_mem_map = 0;
 	return NULL;
 }
 #endif
@@ -617,17 +615,23 @@ void __init sparse_init(void)
 #endif
 
 	for_each_present_section_nr(0, pnum) {
+		struct mem_section *ms;
+		ms = __nr_to_section(pnum);
 		usemap = usemap_map[pnum];
-		if (!usemap)
+		if (!usemap) {
+			ms->section_mem_map = 0;
 			continue;
+		}
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER
 		map = map_map[pnum];
 #else
 		map = sparse_early_mem_map_alloc(pnum);
 #endif
-		if (!map)
+		if (!map) {
+			ms->section_mem_map = 0;
 			continue;
+		}
 
 		sparse_init_one_section(__nr_to_section(pnum), pnum, map,
 								usemap);
-- 
2.13.6