linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv9 03/14] mm/page_alloc: Fake unaccepted memory

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Message-ID: <835dfe65-d9dd-0b16-37d4-920e97f1bca0@suse.cz>
Date:   Mon, 3 Apr 2023 15:39:53 +0200
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv9 03/14] mm/page_alloc: Fake unaccepted memory

On 3/30/23 13:49, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> For testing purposes, it is useful to fake unaccepted memory in the
> system. It helps to understand unaccepted memory overhead to the page
> allocator.

Ack on being useful for testing, but the question is if we want to also
merge this patch into mainline as it is?

> The patch allows to treat memory above the specified physical memory
> address as unaccepted.
> 
> The change only fakes unaccepted memory for page allocator. Memblock is
> not affected.
> 
> It also assumes that arch-provided accept_memory() on already accepted
> memory is a nop.

I guess to be in mainline it would have to at least gracefully handle the
case of accept_memory actually not being a nop, and running on a system with
actual unaccepted memory (probably by ignoring the parameter in such case).
Then also the parameter would have to be documented.

Speaking of documented parameters, I found at least two that seem a more
generic variant of this (but I didn't look closely if that makes sense):

efi_fake_mem=   nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
    Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
    updating original EFI memory map.

memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
    [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
    from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left

Would any of those be usable for this usecase?

> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index d62fcb2f28bd..509a93b7e5af 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -7213,6 +7213,8 @@ static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(zones_with_unaccepted_pages);
>  
>  static bool lazy_accept = true;
>  
> +static unsigned long fake_unaccepted_start = -1UL;
> +
>  static int __init accept_memory_parse(char *p)
>  {
>  	if (!strcmp(p, "lazy")) {
> @@ -7227,11 +7229,30 @@ static int __init accept_memory_parse(char *p)
>  }
>  early_param("accept_memory", accept_memory_parse);
>  
> +static int __init fake_unaccepted_start_parse(char *p)
> +{
> +	if (!p)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	fake_unaccepted_start = memparse(p, &p);
> +
> +	if (*p != '\0') {
> +		fake_unaccepted_start = -1UL;
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	}
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +early_param("fake_unaccepted_start", fake_unaccepted_start_parse);
> +
>  static bool page_contains_unaccepted(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
>  {
>  	phys_addr_t start = page_to_phys(page);
>  	phys_addr_t end = start + (PAGE_SIZE << order);
>  
> +	if (start >= fake_unaccepted_start)
> +		return true;
> +
>  	return range_contains_unaccepted_memory(start, end);
>  }
>