Message-ID: <20201026124226.GC20612@codeaurora.org>
Date:   Mon, 26 Oct 2020 20:42:26 +0800
From:   Zhenhua Huang <zhenhuah@...eaurora.org>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, tingwei@...eaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_owner initializing issue for arm32

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 05:39:34PM +0800, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 03:12:55PM +0800, Zhenhua Huang wrote:
> > Hi Mike,
> > 
> > On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 11:42:53PM +0800, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 05:14:00PM +0800, Zhenhua Huang wrote:
> > > > Page owner of pages used by page owner itself used is missing on
> arm32
> > > targets.
> > > > The reason is dummy_handle and failure_handle is not initialized
> > > correctly.
> > > > Buddy allocator is used to initialize these two handles. However,
> buddy
> > > > allocator is not ready when page owner calls it. This change fixed
> that
> > > by
> > > > initializing page owner after buddy initialization.
> > > > 
> > > > The working flow before and after this change are:
> > > > original logic:
> > > > 1. allocated memory for page_ext(using memblock).
> > > 
> > > Is anything that requires a memblock allocation FLATMEM?
> > > Any fundamental reason why wouldn't
> alloc_pages_exact_nid/vzalloc_node()
> > > work in this case?
> > > 
> > > It seems to me that for FLATMEM configuration we can allocate the
> > > page_ext using alloc_pages() with a fallback to vzalloc_node() and
> then
> > > we can unify lot's of page_ext code and entirely drop
> > > page_ext_init_flatmem().
> >
> > From comments in codes: "page_ext requires contiguous pages, bigger than
> > MAX_ORDER unless SPARSEMEM."
> > The size of page_ext for FLATMEM(which used pgdat) should be much larger
> than
> > the size for SPARSEMEM which used section.
> 
> Well, the vzalloc_node() fallback in alloc_page_ext() for SPARSEMEM case
> implies that using pages that are not physically contiguous should be
> fine. So, it seems to me that the comment is stale and vzalloc_node()
> would work just fine for FLATMEM case if the allocation of page_ext
> would exceed MAX_ORDER.
> 

Thanks Mike, got it. I agree with you for this point. I also haven't got why
it needs physical continuous... and haven't found detailed commit message
explained it.

> > > > 2. invoke the init callback of page_ext_ops like
> > > > page_owner(using buddy allocator).
> > > > 3. initialize buddy.
> > > > 
> > > > after this change:
> > > > 1. allocated memory for page_ext(using memblock).
> > > > 2. initialize buddy.
> > > > 3. invoke the init callback of page_ext_ops like
> > > > page_owner(using buddy allocator).
> > > > 
> > > > with the change, failure/dummy_handle can get its correct value and
> > > > page owner output for example has the one for page owner itself:
> > > > Page allocated via order 2, mask 0x6202c0(GFP_USER|__GFP_NOWARN),
> pid
> > > 1006, ts
> > > > 67278156558 ns
> > > > PFN 543776 type Unmovable Block 531 type Unmovable Flags 0x0()
> > > >  init_page_owner+0x28/0x2f8
> > > >  invoke_init_callbacks_flatmem+0x24/0x34
> > > >  start_kernel+0x33c/0x5d8
> > > >    (null)
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Zhenhua Huang <zhenhuah@...eaurora.org>
> > > > ---
> > > >  include/linux/page_ext.h | 8 ++++++++
> > > >  init/main.c              | 2 ++
> > > >  mm/page_ext.c            | 8 +++++++-
> > > >  3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/include/linux/page_ext.h b/include/linux/page_ext.h
> > > > index cfce186..aff81ba 100644
> > > > --- a/include/linux/page_ext.h
> > > > +++ b/include/linux/page_ext.h
> > > > @@ -44,8 +44,12 @@ static inline void page_ext_init_flatmem(void)
> > > >  {
> > > >  }
> > > >  extern void page_ext_init(void);
> > > > +static inline void page_ext_init_flatmem_late(void)
> > > > +{
> > > > +}
> > > >  #else
> > > >  extern void page_ext_init_flatmem(void);
> > > > +extern void page_ext_init_flatmem_late(void);
> > > >  static inline void page_ext_init(void)
> > > >  {
> > > >  }
> > > > @@ -76,6 +80,10 @@ static inline void page_ext_init(void)
> > > >  {
> > > >  }
> > > >  
> > > > +static inline void page_ext_init_flatmem_late(void)
> > > > +{
> > > > +}
> > > > +
> > > >  static inline void page_ext_init_flatmem(void)
> > > >  {
> > > >  }
> > > > diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> > > > index 130376e..b34c475 100644
> > > > --- a/init/main.c
> > > > +++ b/init/main.c
> > > > @@ -818,6 +818,8 @@ static void __init mm_init(void)
> > > >  	init_debug_pagealloc();
> > > >  	report_meminit();
> > > >  	mem_init();
> > > > +	/* page_owner must be initialized after buddy is ready */
> > > > +	page_ext_init_flatmem_late();
> > > >  	kmem_cache_init();
> > > >  	kmemleak_init();
> > > >  	pgtable_init();
> > > > diff --git a/mm/page_ext.c b/mm/page_ext.c
> > > > index a3616f7..373f7a1 100644
> > > > --- a/mm/page_ext.c
> > > > +++ b/mm/page_ext.c
> > > > @@ -99,6 +99,13 @@ static void __init invoke_init_callbacks(void)
> > > >  	}
> > > >  }
> > > >  
> > > > +#if !defined(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM)
> > > > +void __init page_ext_init_flatmem_late(void)
> > > > +{
> > > > +	invoke_init_callbacks();
> > > > +}
> > > > +#endif
> > > > +
> > > >  static inline struct page_ext *get_entry(void *base, unsigned long
> > > index)
> > > >  {
> > > >  	return base + page_ext_size * index;
> > > > @@ -177,7 +184,6 @@ void __init page_ext_init_flatmem(void)
> > > >  			goto fail;
> > > >  	}
> > > >  	pr_info("allocated %ld bytes of page_ext\n", total_usage);
> > > > -	invoke_init_callbacks();
> > > >  	return;
> > > >  
> > > >  fail:
> > > > -- 
> > > > The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora
> > > Forum,
> > > > a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Sincerely yours,
> > > Mike.
> > > 
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely yours,
> Mike.
> 

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