linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] hugetlbfs: remove hugetlb_add

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Message-ID: <87blnj4x9p.fsf@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:12:26 +0530
From:   "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
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        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
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        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
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        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] hugetlbfs: remove hugetlb_add_hstate() warning
 for existing hstate

Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com> writes:

> The routine hugetlb_add_hstate prints a warning if the hstate already
> exists.  This was originally done as part of kernel command line
> parsing.  If 'hugepagesz=' was specified more than once, the warning
> 	pr_warn("hugepagesz= specified twice, ignoring\n");
> would be printed.
>
> Some architectures want to enable all huge page sizes.  They would
> call hugetlb_add_hstate for all supported sizes.  However, this was
> done after command line processing and as a result hstates could have
> already been created for some sizes.  To make sure no warning were
> printed, there would often be code like:
> 	if (!size_to_hstate(size)
> 		hugetlb_add_hstate(ilog2(size) - PAGE_SHIFT)
>
> The only time we want to print the warning is as the result of command
> line processing.

Does this patch break hugepages=x command line? I haven't tested this
yet. But one of the details w.r.t. skipping that hugetlb_add_hstate is
to make sure we can configure the max_huge_pages. 


>So, remove the warning from hugetlb_add_hstate and
> add it to the single arch independent routine processing "hugepagesz=".
> After this, calls to size_to_hstate() in arch specific code can be
> removed and hugetlb_add_hstate can be called without worrying about
> warning messages.
>

-aneesh