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Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2022 19:57:25 +0000
From: Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
CC: "rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com" <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>,
Song Liu <song@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf 0/4] introduce HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC_FLAG for
bpf_prog_pack
Hi Nicholas and Claudio,
> On Apr 5, 2022, at 4:54 PM, Song Liu <songliubraving@...com> wrote:
>
>> On Apr 5, 2022, at 12:07 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 10:22:00PM +0000, Song Liu wrote:
>>>>> Please fix the underlying issues instead of papering over them and
>>>>> creating a huge maintainance burden for others.
>>>
>>> After reading the code a little more, I wonder what would be best strategy.
>>> IIUC, most of the kernel is not ready for huge page backed vmalloc memory.
>>> For example, all the module_alloc cannot work with huge pages at the moment.
>>> And the error Paul Menzel reported in drm_fb_helper.c will probably hit
>>> powerpc with 5.17 kernel as-is? (trace attached below)
>>>
>>> Right now, we have VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP to let a user to opt out of huge pages.
>>> However, given there are so many users of vmalloc, vzalloc, etc., we
>>> probably do need a flag for the user to opt-in?
>>>
>>> Does this make sense? Any recommendations are really appreciated.
>>
>> I think there is multiple aspects here:
>>
>> - if we think that the kernel is not ready for hugepage backed vmalloc
>> in general we need to disable it in powerpc for now.
>
> Nicholas and Claudio,
>
> What do you think about the status of hugepage backed vmalloc on powerpc?
> I found module_alloc and kvm_s390_pv_alloc_vm() opt-out of huge pages.
> But I am not aware of users that benefit from huge pages (except vfs hash,
> which was mentioned in 8abddd968a30). Does an opt-in flag (instead of
> current opt-out flag, VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP) make sense to you?
Could you please share your comments on this? Specifically, does it make
sense to replace VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP with an opt-in flag? If we think current
opt-out flag is better approach, what would be the best practice to find
all the cases to opt-out?
Thanks,
Song
> Thanks,
> Song
>
>> - if we think even in the longer run only some users can cope with
>> hugepage backed vmalloc we need to turn it into an opt-in in
>> general and not just for x86
>> - there still to appear various unresolved underlying x86 specific
>> issues that need to be fixed either way
>
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