linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 7/8] hugetlb: add update_and_free_page_no

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Message-ID: <8a28c691-1e7c-1463-9d59-da31a2926adc@oracle.com>
Date:   Tue, 23 Mar 2021 11:51:04 -0700
From:   Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        HORIGUCHI NAOYA <naoya.horiguchi@....com>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 7/8] hugetlb: add update_and_free_page_no_sleep for
 irq context

On 3/22/21 11:10 AM, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 10:42:23AM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>> Cc: Roman, Christoph
>>
>> On 3/22/21 1:41 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 03:42:08PM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>>>> The locks acquired in free_huge_page are irq safe.  However, in certain
>>>> circumstances the routine update_and_free_page could sleep.  Since
>>>> free_huge_page can be called from any context, it can not sleep.
>>>>
>>>> Use a waitqueue to defer freeing of pages if the operation may sleep.  A
>>>> new routine update_and_free_page_no_sleep provides this functionality
>>>> and is only called from free_huge_page.
>>>>
>>>> Note that any 'pages' sent to the workqueue for deferred freeing have
>>>> already been removed from the hugetlb subsystem.  What is actually
>>>> deferred is returning those base pages to the low level allocator.
>>>
>>> So maybe I'm stupid, but why do you need that work in hugetlb? Afaict it
>>> should be in cma_release().
>>
>> My thinking (which could be totally wrong) is that cma_release makes no
>> claims about calling context.  From the code, it is pretty clear that it
>> can only be called from task context with no locks held.  Although,
>> there could be code incorrectly calling it today hugetlb does.  Since
>> hugetlb is the only code with this new requirement, it should do the
>> work.
>>
>> Wait!!!  That made me remember something.
>> Roman had code to create a non-blocking version of cma_release().
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20201022225308.2927890-1-guro@fb.com/
>>
>> There were no objections, and Christoph even thought there may be
>> problems with callers of dma_free_contiguous.
>>
>> Perhaps, we should just move forward with Roman's patches to create
>> cma_release_nowait() and avoid this workqueue stuff?
> 
> Sounds good to me. If it's the preferred path, I can rebase and resend
> those patches (they been carried for some time by Zi Yan for his 1GB THP work,
> but they are completely independent).

Thanks Roman,

Yes, this is the preferred path.  If there is a non blocking version of
cma_release, then it makes fixup of hugetlb put_page path much easier.

If you would prefer, I can rebase your patches and send with this series.
-- 
Mike Kravetz