Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v21 0/9] Free some vmemmap pages of HugeTLB page

[Mike Kravetz]

On 4/28/21 5:26 AM, Muchun Song wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 7:47 AM Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks!  I will take a look at the modifications soon.
>>
>> I applied the patches to Andrew's mmotm-2021-04-21-23-03, ran some tests and
>> got the following warning.  We may need to special case that call to
>> __prep_new_huge_page/free_huge_page_vmemmap from alloc_and_dissolve_huge_page
>> as it is holding hugetlb lock with IRQs disabled.
> 
> Good catch. Thanks Mike. I will fix it in the next version. How about this:
> 
> @@ -1618,7 +1617,8 @@ static void __prep_new_huge_page(struct hstate
> *h, struct page *page)
> 
>  static void prep_new_huge_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page, int nid)
>  {
> +       free_huge_page_vmemmap(h, page);
>         __prep_new_huge_page(page);
>         spin_lock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
>         __prep_account_new_huge_page(h, nid);
>         spin_unlock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
> @@ -2429,6 +2429,7 @@ static int alloc_and_dissolve_huge_page(struct
> hstate *h, struct page *old_page,
>         if (!new_page)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
> 
> +       free_huge_page_vmemmap(h, new_page);
>  retry:
>         spin_lock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
>         if (!PageHuge(old_page)) {
> @@ -2489,7 +2490,7 @@ static int alloc_and_dissolve_huge_page(struct
> hstate *h, struct page *old_page,
> 
>  free_new:
>         spin_unlock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
> -       __free_pages(new_page, huge_page_order(h));
> +       update_and_free_page(h, new_page, false);
> 
>         return ret;
>  }
> 
> 

Another option would be to leave the prep* routines as is and only
modify alloc_and_dissolve_huge_page as follows:

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 9c617c19fc18..f8e5013a6b46 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2420,14 +2420,15 @@ static int alloc_and_dissolve_huge_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *old_page,
 
 	/*
 	 * Before dissolving the page, we need to allocate a new one for the
-	 * pool to remain stable. Using alloc_buddy_huge_page() allows us to
-	 * not having to deal with prep_new_huge_page() and avoids dealing of any
-	 * counters. This simplifies and let us do the whole thing under the
-	 * lock.
+	 * pool to remain stable.  Here, we allocate the page and 'prep' it
+	 * by doing everything but actually updating counters and adding to
+	 * the pool.  This simplifies and let us do most of the processing
+	 * under the lock.
 	 */
 	new_page = alloc_buddy_huge_page(h, gfp_mask, nid, NULL, NULL);
 	if (!new_page)
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	__prep_new_huge_page(h, new_page);
 
 retry:
 	spin_lock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
@@ -2473,7 +2474,6 @@ static int alloc_and_dissolve_huge_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *old_page,
 		 * Reference count trick is needed because allocator gives us
 		 * referenced page but the pool requires pages with 0 refcount.
 		 */
-		__prep_new_huge_page(h, new_page);
 		__prep_account_new_huge_page(h, nid);
 		page_ref_dec(new_page);
 		enqueue_huge_page(h, new_page);
@@ -2489,7 +2489,7 @@ static int alloc_and_dissolve_huge_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *old_page,
 
 free_new:
 	spin_unlock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
-	__free_pages(new_page, huge_page_order(h));
+	update_and_free_page(h, old_page, false);
 
 	return ret;
 }

-- 
Mike Kravetz