linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 0/4] mm/sparse: Optimize memmap allocation during sparse

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Date:   Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:26:53 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        dave.hansen@...el.com, pagupta@...hat.com
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com,
        Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/4] mm/sparse: Optimize memmap allocation during sparse_init()

This is v3 post. V1 can be found here:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg144486.html

In sparse_init(), two temporary pointer arrays, usemap_map and map_map
are allocated with the size of NR_MEM_SECTIONS. They are used to store
each memory section's usemap and mem map if marked as present. In
5-level paging mode, this will cost 512M memory though they will be
released at the end of sparse_init(). System with few memory, like
kdump kernel which usually only has about 256M, will fail to boot
because of allocation failure if CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y.

In this patchset, optimize the memmap allocation code to only use
usemap_map and map_map with the size of nr_present_sections. This
makes kdump kernel boot up with normal crashkernel='' setting when
CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y.

Change log:
v2->v3:
  Change nr_present_sections as __initdata and add code comment
  according to Andrew's suggestion.

  Change the local variable 'i' as idx_present which loops over the
  present sections, and improve the code. These are suggested by
  Dave and Pankaj.

  Add a new patch 0003 which adds a new parameter 'data_unit_size'
  to function alloc_usemap_and_memmap() in which we will update 'data'
  to make it point at new position. However its type 'void *' can't give
  us needed info to do that. Need pass the unit size in. So change code
  in patch 0004 accordingly. This is a code bug fix found when tested
  the memory deployed on multiple nodes.

v1-v2:
  Split out the nr_present_sections adding as a single patch for easier
  reviewing.

  Rewrite patch log according to Dave's suggestion.

  Fix code bug in patch 0002 reported by test robot.

Baoquan He (4):
  mm/sparse: Add a static variable nr_present_sections
  mm/sparsemem: Defer the ms->section_mem_map clearing
  mm/sparse: Add a new parameter 'data_unit_size' for
    alloc_usemap_and_memmap
  mm/sparse: Optimize memmap allocation during sparse_init()

 mm/sparse-vmemmap.c |  6 +++---
 mm/sparse.c         | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

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