Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/memory_hotplug: Export shrink span functions for zone and node

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Fri Jan 28 2022 - 03:10:28 EST

On 28.01.22 05:19, Jonghyeon Kim wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 10:54:23AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> On 27.01.22 10:41, Jonghyeon Kim wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 06:04:50PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>> On 26.01.22 18:00, Jonghyeon Kim wrote:
>>>>> Export shrink_zone_span() and update_pgdat_span() functions to head
>>>>> file. We need to update real number of spanned pages for NUMA nodes and
>>>>> zones when we add memory device node such as device dax memory.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can you elaborate a bit more what you intend to fix?
>>>>
>>>> Memory onlining/offlining is reponsible for updating the node/zone span,
>>>> and that's triggered when the dax/kmem mamory gets onlined/offlined.
>>>>
>>> Sure, sorry for the lack of explanation of the intended fix.
>>>
>>> Before onlining nvdimm memory using dax(devdax or fsdax), these memory belong to
>>> cpu NUMA nodes, which extends span pages of node/zone as a ZONE_DEVICE. So there
>>> is no problem because node/zone contain these additional non-visible memory
>>> devices to the system.
>>> But, if we online dax-memory, zone[ZONE_DEVICE] of CPU NUMA node is hot-plugged
>>> to new NUMA node(but CPU-less). I think there is no need to hold
>>> zone[ZONE_DEVICE] pages on the original node.
>>>
>>> Additionally, spanned pages are also used to calculate the end pfn of a node.
>>> Thus, it is needed to maintain accurate page stats for node/zone.
>>>
>>> My machine contains two CPU-socket consisting of DRAM and Intel DCPMM
>>> (DC persistent memory modules) with App-Direct mode.
>>>
>>> Below are my test results.
>>>
>>> Before memory onlining:
>>>
>>> # ndctl create-namespace --mode=devdax
>>> # ndctl create-namespace --mode=devdax
>>> # cat /proc/zoneinfo | grep -E "Node|spanned" | paste - -
>>> Node 0, zone DMA spanned 4095
>>> Node 0, zone DMA32 spanned 1044480
>>> Node 0, zone Normal spanned 7864320
>>> Node 0, zone Movable spanned 0
>>> Node 0, zone Device spanned 66060288
>>> Node 1, zone DMA spanned 0
>>> Node 1, zone DMA32 spanned 0
>>> Node 1, zone Normal spanned 8388608
>>> Node 1, zone Movable spanned 0
>>> Node 1, zone Device spanned 66060288
>>>
>>> After memory onlining:
>>>
>>> # daxctl reconfigure-device --mode=system-ram --no-online dax0.0
>>> # daxctl reconfigure-device --mode=system-ram --no-online dax1.0
>>>
>>> # cat /proc/zoneinfo | grep -E "Node|spanned" | paste - -
>>> Node 0, zone DMA spanned 4095
>>> Node 0, zone DMA32 spanned 1044480
>>> Node 0, zone Normal spanned 7864320
>>> Node 0, zone Movable spanned 0
>>> Node 0, zone Device spanned 66060288
>>> Node 1, zone DMA spanned 0
>>> Node 1, zone DMA32 spanned 0
>>> Node 1, zone Normal spanned 8388608
>>> Node 1, zone Movable spanned 0
>>> Node 1, zone Device spanned 66060288
>>> Node 2, zone DMA spanned 0
>>> Node 2, zone DMA32 spanned 0
>>> Node 2, zone Normal spanned 65011712
>>> Node 2, zone Movable spanned 0
>>> Node 2, zone Device spanned 0
>>> Node 3, zone DMA spanned 0
>>> Node 3, zone DMA32 spanned 0
>>> Node 3, zone Normal spanned 65011712
>>> Node 3, zone Movable spanned 0
>>> Node 3, zone Device spanned 0
>>>
>>> As we can see, Node 0 and 1 still have zone_device pages after memory onlining.
>>> This causes problem that Node 0 and Node 2 have same end of pfn values, also
>>> Node 1 and Node 3 have same problem.
>>
>> Thanks for the information, that makes it clearer.
>>
>> While this unfortunate, the node/zone span is something fairly
>> unreliable/unusable for user space. Nodes and zones can overlap just easily.
>>
>> What counts are present/managed pages in the node/zone.
>>
>> So at least I don't count this as something that "needs fixing",
>> it's more something that's nice to handle better if easily possible.
>>
>> See below.
>>
>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jonghyeon Kim <tome01@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> include/linux/memory_hotplug.h | 3 +++
>>>>> mm/memory_hotplug.c | 6 ++++--
>>>>> 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
>>>>> index be48e003a518..25c7f60c317e 100644
>>>>> --- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
>>>>> +++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
>>>>> @@ -337,6 +337,9 @@ extern void move_pfn_range_to_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
>>>>> extern void remove_pfn_range_from_zone(struct zone *zone,
>>>>> unsigned long start_pfn,
>>>>> unsigned long nr_pages);
>>>>> +extern void shrink_zone_span(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
>>>>> + unsigned long end_pfn);
>>>>> +extern void update_pgdat_span(struct pglist_data *pgdat);
>>>>> extern bool is_memblock_offlined(struct memory_block *mem);
>>>>> extern int sparse_add_section(int nid, unsigned long pfn,
>>>>> unsigned long nr_pages, struct vmem_altmap *altmap);
>>>>> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>>>>> index 2a9627dc784c..38f46a9ef853 100644
>>>>> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>>>>> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>>>>> @@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ static unsigned long find_biggest_section_pfn(int nid, struct zone *zone,
>>>>> return 0;
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> -static void shrink_zone_span(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
>>>>> +void shrink_zone_span(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
>>>>> unsigned long end_pfn)
>>>>> {
>>>>> unsigned long pfn;
>>>>> @@ -428,8 +428,9 @@ static void shrink_zone_span(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
>>>>> }
>>>>> }
>>>>> }
>>>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(shrink_zone_span);
>>>>
>>>> Exporting both as symbols feels very wrong. This is memory
>>>> onlining/offlining internal stuff.
>>>
>>> I agree with you that your comment. I will find another approach to avoid
>>> directly using onlining/offlining internal stuff while updating node/zone span.
>>
>> IIRC, to handle what you intend to handle properly want to look into teaching
>> remove_pfn_range_from_zone() to handle zone_is_zone_device().
>>
>> There is a big fat comment:
>>
>> /*
>> * Zone shrinking code cannot properly deal with ZONE_DEVICE. So
>> * we will not try to shrink the zones - which is okay as
>> * set_zone_contiguous() cannot deal with ZONE_DEVICE either way.
>> */
>> if (zone_is_zone_device(zone))
>> return;
>>
>>
>> Similarly, try_offline_node() spells this out:
>>
>> /*
>> * If the node still spans pages (especially ZONE_DEVICE), don't
>> * offline it. A node spans memory after move_pfn_range_to_zone(),
>> * e.g., after the memory block was onlined.
>> */
>> if (pgdat->node_spanned_pages)
>> return;
>>
>>
>> So once you handle remove_pfn_range_from_zone() cleanly, you'll cleanly handle
>> try_offline_node() implicitly.
>>
>> Trying to update the node span manually without teaching node/zone shrinking code how to
>> handle ZONE_DEVICE properly is just a hack that will only sometimes work. Especially, it
>> won't work if the range of interest is still surrounded by other ranges.
>>
>
> Thanks for your pointing out, I missed those comments.
> I will keep trying to handle node/zone span updating process.

The only safe thing right now for on ZONE_DEVICE in
remove_pfn_range_from_zone() would be removing the given range from the
start/end of the zone range, but we must not scan using the existing
functions.

As soon as we start actual *scanning* via find_smallest...
find_biggest... in shrink_zone_span() we would mistakenly skip other
ZONE_DEVICE ranges and mess up.

Assume you would have a ZONE_DEVICE layout like

[ DEV 0 | Hole | DEV 1 | Hole | DEV 2 ]

What we actually want to do when removing

* DEV 0 is scanning low->high until we find DEV 1
* DEV 1 is doing nothing, because we cannot shrink
* DEV 2 is scanning high -> low until we find DEV 1


I assume we'd want to call in shrink_zone_span() two new functions for
ZONE_DEVICE:
find_smallest_zone_device_pfn
find_biggest_zone_device_pfn

Which would be able to do exactly that scanning, eventually, using
get_dev_pagemap() or some similar source of information.

--
Thanks,

David / dhildenb