RE: [PATCH v3] mm/hugetlb: avoid hardcoding while checking if cma is enable

From: Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
Date: Thu Jul 09 2020 - 19:45:51 EST




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Kravetz [mailto:mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2020 6:58 AM
> To: Song Bao Hua (Barry Song) <song.bao.hua@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Roman
> Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx;
> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Linuxarm <linuxarm@xxxxxxxxxx>; Jonathan
> Cameron <jonathan.cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm/hugetlb: avoid hardcoding while checking if cma
> is enable
>
> Looks like this produced a warning in linux-next. I suspect it is due to the
> combination CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE && !CONFIG_CMA.
>
> Instead of adding the routine hugetlb_cma_enabled() to scan the hugetlb_cma
> array, could we just use a boolean as follows? It can simply be set in
> hugetlb_cma_reserve when we reserve CMA.

Maybe just use hugetlb_cma_size? If hugetlb_cma_size is not 0, someone is trying to use
cma, then bootmem for gigantic pages will be totally ignored according to discussion here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/7/8/1288

if somebody sets a wrong hugetlb_cma_size which causes that cma is not reserved.
It is the fault of users? We just need to document hugetlb_cma will overwrite bootmem
reservations?

> --
> Mike Kravetz
>
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index fab4485b9e52..92cb882cf287 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ unsigned int default_hstate_idx;
> struct hstate hstates[HUGE_MAX_HSTATE];
>
> static struct cma *hugetlb_cma[MAX_NUMNODES];
> +static bool hugetlb_cma_enabled = false;
>
> /*
> * Minimum page order among possible hugepage sizes, set to a proper value
> @@ -2571,7 +2572,7 @@ static void __init hugetlb_hstate_alloc_pages(struct
> hstate *h)
>
> for (i = 0; i < h->max_huge_pages; ++i) {
> if (hstate_is_gigantic(h)) {
> - if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CMA) && hugetlb_cma[0]) {
> + if (hugetlb_cma_enabled) {
> pr_warn_once("HugeTLB: hugetlb_cma is enabled, skip
> boot time allocation\n");
> break;
> }
> @@ -5708,6 +5709,7 @@ void __init hugetlb_cma_reserve(int order)
> reserved += size;
> pr_info("hugetlb_cma: reserved %lu MiB on node %d\n",
> size / SZ_1M, nid);
> + hugetlb_cma_enabled = true;
>
> if (reserved >= hugetlb_cma_size)
> break;

Thanks
Barry