linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/9] mm/hugetlb: remove checking hstate_is_gigantic() in return_unused_surplus

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Date:   Fri, 24 Jun 2022 08:51:45 +0900
From:   Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@...il.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        Liu Shixin <liushixin2@...wei.com>,
        Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/9] mm/hugetlb: remove checking hstate_is_gigantic() in return_unused_surplus_pages()

From: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>

I found a weird state of 1GB hugepage pool, caused by the following
procedure:

  - run a process reserving all free 1GB hugepages,
  - shrink free 1GB hugepage pool to zero (i.e. writing 0 to
    /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages), then
  - kill the reserving process.

, then all the hugepages are free *and* surplus at the same time.

  $ cat /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages
  3
  $ cat /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/free_hugepages
  3
  $ cat /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/resv_hugepages
  0
  $ cat /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/surplus_hugepages
  3

This state is resolved by reserving and allocating the pages then
freeing them again, so this seems not to result in serious problem.
But it's a little surprizing (shrinking pool suddenly fails).

This behavior is caused by hstate_is_gigantic() check in
return_unused_surplus_pages(). This was introduced so long ago in 2008
by commit aa888a74977a ("hugetlb: support larger than MAX_ORDER"), and
it seems to me that this check is no longer unnecessary. Let's remove it.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>
---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index a57e1be41401..c538278170a2 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2432,10 +2432,6 @@ static void return_unused_surplus_pages(struct hstate *h,
 	/* Uncommit the reservation */
 	h->resv_huge_pages -= unused_resv_pages;
 
-	/* Cannot return gigantic pages currently */
-	if (hstate_is_gigantic(h))
-		goto out;
-
 	/*
 	 * Part (or even all) of the reservation could have been backed
 	 * by pre-allocated pages. Only free surplus pages.
-- 
2.25.1