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

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Date:   Mon, 3 Apr 2023 16:43:08 +0200
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
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        Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan 
        <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com>,
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        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv9 03/14] mm/page_alloc: Fake unaccepted memory

On 30.03.23 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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);
>   }
>   

The "unpleasant" thing about this is, that page_contains_unaccepted() 
could not be used for sanity checks because the result is static.

For example, something like

if (page_contains_unaccepted(page, 0))
	accept_memory(page, 0);
BUG_ON(!page_contains_unaccepted(page, 0));

Would work on real hardware, however, not for the fake variant.

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb