Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] mm/cma: populate ZONE_CMA

[Joonsoo Kim]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:24:05AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 05/26/2016 08:22 AM, js1304@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
> >
> >Until now, reserved pages for CMA are managed in the ordinary zones
> >where page's pfn are belong to. This approach has numorous problems
> >and fixing them isn't easy. (It is mentioned on previous patch.)
> >To fix this situation, ZONE_CMA is introduced in previous patch, but,
> >not yet populated. This patch implement population of ZONE_CMA
> >by stealing reserved pages from the ordinary zones.
> >
> >Unlike previous implementation that kernel allocation request with
> >__GFP_MOVABLE could be serviced from CMA region, allocation request only
> >with GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE can be serviced from CMA region in the new
> >approach. This is an inevitable design decision to use the zone
> >implementation because ZONE_CMA could contain highmem. Due to this
> >decision, ZONE_CMA will work like as ZONE_HIGHMEM or ZONE_MOVABLE.
> >
> >I don't think it would be a problem because most of file cache pages
> >and anonymous pages are requested with GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE. It could
> >be proved by the fact that there are many systems with ZONE_HIGHMEM and
> >they work fine. Notable disadvantage is that we cannot use these pages
> >for blockdev file cache page, because it usually has __GFP_MOVABLE but
> >not __GFP_HIGHMEM and __GFP_USER. But, in this case, there is pros and
> >cons. In my experience, blockdev file cache pages are one of the top
> >reason that causes cma_alloc() to fail temporarily. So, we can get more
> >guarantee of cma_alloc() success by discarding that case.
> >
> >Implementation itself is very easy to understand. Steal when cma area is
> >initialized and recalculate various per zone stat/threshold.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
> 
> I realize I differ here from much more experienced mm guys, and will
> probably deservingly regret it later on, but I think that the
> ZONE_CMA approach could work indeed better than current MIGRATE_CMA
> pageblocks.
> 
> My main worry is (naturally :) the effect on compaction overhead,
> due to potentially sparsely populated zones with holes that have to
> be scanned over - either ZONE_CMA itself, or the zones where pages
> were stolen from.

As I said before, without this patchset, it'd be helpful to skip
MIGRATE_CMA pageblock on compaction since it cannot be usable for
non-movable allocation. If we assume that we need skip, overhead due
to ZONE_CMA would be marginal.

> 
> >---
> > include/linux/memory_hotplug.h |  3 ---
> > mm/cma.c                       | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > mm/internal.h                  |  3 +++
> > mm/page_alloc.c                | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> > 4 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
> >index a864d79..6fde69b 100644
> >--- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
> >+++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
> >@@ -198,9 +198,6 @@ void put_online_mems(void);
> > void mem_hotplug_begin(void);
> > void mem_hotplug_done(void);
> >
> >-extern void set_zone_contiguous(struct zone *zone);
> >-extern void clear_zone_contiguous(struct zone *zone);
> >-
> > #else /* ! CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG */
> > /*
> >  * Stub functions for when hotplug is off
> >diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
> >index ea506eb..8684f50 100644
> >--- a/mm/cma.c
> >+++ b/mm/cma.c
> >@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
> > #include <trace/events/cma.h>
> >
> > #include "cma.h"
> >+#include "internal.h"
> >
> > struct cma cma_areas[MAX_CMA_AREAS];
> > unsigned cma_area_count;
> >@@ -145,6 +146,11 @@ err:
> > static int __init cma_init_reserved_areas(void)
> > {
> > 	int i;
> >+	struct zone *zone;
> >+	unsigned long start_pfn = UINT_MAX, end_pfn = 0;
> >+
> >+	if (!cma_area_count)
> >+		return 0;
> >
> > 	for (i = 0; i < cma_area_count; i++) {
> > 		int ret = cma_activate_area(&cma_areas[i]);
> >@@ -153,6 +159,41 @@ static int __init cma_init_reserved_areas(void)
> > 			return ret;
> > 	}
> >
> >+	for (i = 0; i < cma_area_count; i++) {
> >+		if (start_pfn > cma_areas[i].base_pfn)
> >+			start_pfn = cma_areas[i].base_pfn;
> >+		if (end_pfn < cma_areas[i].base_pfn + cma_areas[i].count)
> >+			end_pfn = cma_areas[i].base_pfn + cma_areas[i].count;
> >+	}
> >+
> >+	for_each_populated_zone(zone) {
> >+		if (!is_zone_cma(zone))
> >+			continue;
> >+
> >+		/* ZONE_CMA doesn't need to exceed CMA region */
> >+		zone->zone_start_pfn = max(zone->zone_start_pfn, start_pfn);
> >+		zone->spanned_pages = min(zone_end_pfn(zone), end_pfn) -
> >+					zone->zone_start_pfn;
> 
> So what's the typical spanned vs present pages here? Should there
> perhaps be some pr_warns about large holes?

It's completely different case by case, so I cannot say anything. :)
Usually, it is a hardware requirement which cannot be changed so
pr_warns() would not help here.

> >+	}
> >+
> >+	/*
> >+	 * Reserved pages for ZONE_CMA are now activated and this would change
> >+	 * ZONE_CMA's managed page counter and other zone's present counter.
> >+	 * We need to re-calculate various zone information that depends on
> >+	 * this initialization.
> >+	 */
> >+	build_all_zonelists(NULL, NULL);
> >+	for_each_populated_zone(zone) {
> >+		zone_pcp_update(zone);
> >+		set_zone_contiguous(zone);
> >+	}
> >+
> >+	/*
> >+	 * We need to re-init per zone wmark by calling
> >+	 * init_per_zone_wmark_min() but doesn't call here because it is
> >+	 * registered on module_init and it will be called later than us.
> >+	 */
> >+
> > 	return 0;
> > }
> > core_initcall(cma_init_reserved_areas);
> >diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
> >index b6ead95..4c37234 100644
> >--- a/mm/internal.h
> >+++ b/mm/internal.h
> >@@ -155,6 +155,9 @@ extern void __free_pages_bootmem(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn,
> > extern void prep_compound_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
> > extern int user_min_free_kbytes;
> >
> >+extern void set_zone_contiguous(struct zone *zone);
> >+extern void clear_zone_contiguous(struct zone *zone);
> >+
> > #if defined CONFIG_COMPACTION || defined CONFIG_CMA
> >
> > /*
> >diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> >index 0197d5d..796b271 100644
> >--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> >+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> >@@ -1572,16 +1572,38 @@ void __init page_alloc_init_late(void)
> > }
> >
> > #ifdef CONFIG_CMA
> >+static void __init adjust_present_page_count(struct page *page, long count)
> >+{
> >+	struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);
> >+
> >+	/* We don't need to hold a lock since it is boot-up process */
> >+	zone->present_pages += count;
> >+}
> >+
> > /* Free whole pageblock and set its migration type to MIGRATE_CMA. */
> > void __init init_cma_reserved_pageblock(struct page *page)
> > {
> > 	unsigned i = pageblock_nr_pages;
> >+	unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
> > 	struct page *p = page;
> >+	int nid = page_to_nid(page);
> >+
> >+	/*
> >+	 * ZONE_CMA will steal present pages from other zones by changing
> >+	 * page links so page_zone() is changed. Before that,
> >+	 * we need to adjust previous zone's page count first.
> >+	 */
> >+	adjust_present_page_count(page, -pageblock_nr_pages);
> 
> Ideally, zone's start_pfn and spanned_pages should be also adjusted
> if we stole from the beginning/end (which I suppose should be quite
> common?).

It would be possible. Maybe, there is a reason I didn't do that but I
don't remember it. I will think more.

> BTW, shouldn't it be possible with ZONE_CMA to drop the requirement
> in cma_activate_area() that all pages come (originally) from the
> same zone, after your series?

Maybe! I will look at it more.

Thanks.

> >
> > 	do {
> > 		__ClearPageReserved(p);
> > 		set_page_count(p, 0);
> >-	} while (++p, --i);
> >+
> >+		/* Steal pages from other zones */
> >+		set_page_links(p, ZONE_CMA, nid, pfn);
> >+	} while (++p, ++pfn, --i);
> >+
> >+	adjust_present_page_count(page, pageblock_nr_pages);
> >
> > 	set_pageblock_migratetype(page, MIGRATE_CMA);
> >
> >@@ -7545,7 +7567,7 @@ void free_contig_range(unsigned long pfn, unsigned nr_pages)
> > }
> > #endif
> >
> >-#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
> >+#if defined CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG || defined CONFIG_CMA
> > /*
> >  * The zone indicated has a new number of managed_pages; batch sizes and percpu
> >  * page high values need to be recalulated.
> >
> 
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