[PATCH 3/6] arm64/mm: Enable struct page allocation from device memory

From: Anshuman Khandual
Date: Wed Apr 03 2019 - 00:30:34 EST


ZONE_DEVICE based device memory like persistent memory would typically be
more than available system RAM and can have size in TBs. Allocating struct
pages from system RAM for these vast range of device memory will reduce
amount of system RAM available for other purposes. There is a mechanism
with struct vmem_altmap which reserves range of device memory to be used
for it's own struct pages.

On arm64 platforms this enables vmemmap_populate() & vmemmap_free() which
creates & destroys struct page mapping to accommodate a given instance of
struct vmem_altmap.

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index ae0777b..4b25b75 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -735,6 +735,15 @@ static void __meminit free_pagetable(struct page *page, int order)
free_pages((unsigned long)page_address(page), order);
}

+static void __meminit free_huge_pagetable(struct page *page, int order,
+ struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
+{
+ if (altmap)
+ vmem_altmap_free(altmap, (1UL << order));
+ else
+ free_pagetable(page, order);
+}
+
#if (CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS > 2)
static void __meminit free_pte_table(pte_t *pte_start, pmd_t *pmd, bool direct)
{
@@ -828,8 +837,8 @@ remove_pte_table(pte_t *pte_start, unsigned long addr,
}

static void __meminit
-remove_pmd_table(pmd_t *pmd_start, unsigned long addr,
- unsigned long end, bool direct)
+remove_pmd_table(pmd_t *pmd_start, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
+ bool direct, struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
{
unsigned long next;
pte_t *pte_base;
@@ -843,8 +852,8 @@ remove_pmd_table(pmd_t *pmd_start, unsigned long addr,

if (pmd_large(*pmd)) {
if (!direct)
- free_pagetable(pmd_page(*pmd),
- get_order(PMD_SIZE));
+ free_huge_pagetable(pmd_page(*pmd),
+ get_order(PMD_SIZE), altmap);
spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
pmd_clear(pmd);
spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
@@ -857,8 +866,8 @@ remove_pmd_table(pmd_t *pmd_start, unsigned long addr,
}

static void __meminit
-remove_pud_table(pud_t *pud_start, unsigned long addr,
- unsigned long end, bool direct)
+remove_pud_table(pud_t *pud_start, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
+ bool direct, struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
{
unsigned long next;
pmd_t *pmd_base;
@@ -872,21 +881,22 @@ remove_pud_table(pud_t *pud_start, unsigned long addr,

if (pud_large(*pud)) {
if (!direct)
- free_pagetable(pud_page(*pud),
- get_order(PUD_SIZE));
+ free_huge_pagetable(pud_page(*pud),
+ get_order(PUD_SIZE), altmap);
spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
pud_clear(pud);
spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
continue;
}
pmd_base = pmd_offset(pud, 0UL);
- remove_pmd_table(pmd_base, addr, next, direct);
+ remove_pmd_table(pmd_base, addr, next, direct, altmap);
free_pmd_table(pmd_base, pud, direct);
}
}

static void __meminit
-remove_pagetable(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, bool direct)
+remove_pagetable(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
+ bool direct, struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
{
unsigned long addr, next;
pud_t *pud_base;
@@ -899,7 +909,7 @@ remove_pagetable(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, bool direct)
continue;

pud_base = pud_offset(pgd, 0UL);
- remove_pud_table(pud_base, addr, next, direct);
+ remove_pud_table(pud_base, addr, next, direct, altmap);
free_pud_table(pud_base, pgd, direct);
}
flush_tlb_kernel_range(start, end);
@@ -938,7 +948,10 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node,
if (pmd_none(READ_ONCE(*pmdp))) {
void *p = NULL;

- p = vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(PMD_SIZE, node);
+ if (altmap)
+ p = altmap_alloc_block_buf(PMD_SIZE, altmap);
+ else
+ p = vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(PMD_SIZE, node);
if (!p)
return -ENOMEM;

@@ -954,7 +967,7 @@ void __ref vmemmap_free(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
- remove_pagetable(start, end, false);
+ remove_pagetable(start, end, false, altmap);
#endif
}
#endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP */
@@ -1244,7 +1257,7 @@ int p4d_free_pud_page(p4d_t *p4d, unsigned long addr)
static void __remove_pgd_mapping(pgd_t *pgdir, unsigned long start, u64 size)
{
WARN_ON(pgdir != init_mm.pgd);
- remove_pagetable(start, start + size, true);
+ remove_pagetable(start, start + size, true, NULL);
}

int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size, struct vmem_altmap *altmap,
--
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