linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: don't zero 1GiB bootmem pages.

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20180711124711.GA20172@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:47:11 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Cannon Matthews <cannonmatthews@...gle.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Nadia Yvette Chambers <nyc@...omorphy.com>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        andreslc@...gle.com, pfeiner@...gle.com, dmatlack@...gle.com,
        gthelen@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: don't zero 1GiB bootmem pages.

On Tue 10-07-18 11:49:03, Cannon Matthews wrote:
> When using 1GiB pages during early boot, use the new
> memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid_raw() function to allocate memory without
> zeroing it.  Zeroing out hundreds or thousands of GiB in a single core
> memset() call is very slow, and can make early boot last upwards of
> 20-30 minutes on multi TiB machines.
> 
> To be safe, still zero the first sizeof(struct boomem_huge_page) bytes
> since this is used a temporary storage place for this info until
> gather_bootmem_prealloc() processes them later.
> 
> The rest of the memory does not need to be zero'd as the hugetlb pages
> are always zero'd on page fault.
> 
> Tested: Booted with ~3800 1G pages, and it booted successfully in
> roughly the same amount of time as with 0, as opposed to the 25+
> minutes it would take before.

The patch makes perfect sense to me. I wasn't even aware that it
zeroying memblock allocation. Thanks for spotting this and fixing it.

> Signed-off-by: Cannon Matthews <cannonmatthews@...gle.com>

I just do not think we need to to zero huge_bootmem_page portion of it.
It should be sufficient to INIT_LIST_HEAD before list_add. We do
initialize the rest explicitly already.

> ---
>  mm/hugetlb.c | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 3612fbb32e9d..c93a2c77e881 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -2101,7 +2101,7 @@ int __alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h)
>  	for_each_node_mask_to_alloc(h, nr_nodes, node, &node_states[N_MEMORY]) {
>  		void *addr;
> 
> -		addr = memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid_nopanic(
> +		addr = memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid_raw(
>  				huge_page_size(h), huge_page_size(h),
>  				0, BOOTMEM_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE, node);
>  		if (addr) {
> @@ -2109,7 +2109,12 @@ int __alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h)
>  			 * Use the beginning of the huge page to store the
>  			 * huge_bootmem_page struct (until gather_bootmem
>  			 * puts them into the mem_map).
> +			 *
> +			 * memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid_raw returns non-zero'd
> +			 * memory so zero out just enough for this struct, the
> +			 * rest will be zero'd on page fault.
>  			 */
> +			memset(addr, 0, sizeof(struct huge_bootmem_page));
>  			m = addr;
>  			goto found;
>  		}
> --
> 2.18.0.203.gfac676dfb9-goog

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs