linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 10/35] mm/hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb_folio_init_tail

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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2025 11:59:50 +0300
From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 10/35] mm/hugetlb: cleanup
 hugetlb_folio_init_tail_vmemmap()

On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 08:24:31AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 22.08.25 06:09, Mika Penttilä wrote:
> > 
> > On 8/21/25 23:06, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > 
> > > All pages were already initialized and set to PageReserved() with a
> > > refcount of 1 by MM init code.
> > 
> > Just to be sure, how is this working with MEMBLOCK_RSRV_NOINIT, where MM is supposed not to
> > initialize struct pages?
> 
> Excellent point, I did not know about that one.
> 
> Spotting that we don't do the same for the head page made me assume that
> it's just a misuse of __init_single_page().
> 
> But the nasty thing is that we use memblock_reserved_mark_noinit() to only
> mark the tail pages ...

And even nastier thing is that when CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is
disabled struct pages are initialized regardless of
memblock_reserved_mark_noinit().

I think this patch should go in before your updates:

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 753f99b4c718..1c51788339a5 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3230,6 +3230,22 @@ int __alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h, int nid)
 	return 1;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Tail pages in a huge folio allocated from memblock are marked as 'noinit',
+ * which means that when CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is enabled their
+ * struct page won't be initialized
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
+static void __init hugetlb_init_tail_page(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn,
+					enum zone_type zone, int nid)
+{
+	__init_single_page(page, pfn, zone, nid);
+}
+#else
+static inline void hugetlb_init_tail_page(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn,
+					enum zone_type zone, int nid) {}
+#endif
+
 /* Initialize [start_page:end_page_number] tail struct pages of a hugepage */
 static void __init hugetlb_folio_init_tail_vmemmap(struct folio *folio,
 					unsigned long start_page_number,
@@ -3244,7 +3260,7 @@ static void __init hugetlb_folio_init_tail_vmemmap(struct folio *folio,
 	for (pfn = head_pfn + start_page_number; pfn < end_pfn; pfn++) {
 		struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
 
-		__init_single_page(page, pfn, zone, nid);
+		hugetlb_init_tail_page(page, pfn, zone, nid);
 		prep_compound_tail((struct page *)folio, pfn - head_pfn);
 		ret = page_ref_freeze(page, 1);
 		VM_BUG_ON(!ret);
 
> Let me revert back to __init_single_page() and add a big fat comment why
> this is required.
> 
> Thanks!

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.