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From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@techadventures.net>
To: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Cc: steven.sistare@oracle.com, daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, mhocko@suse.com,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com, jack@suse.cz,
	jglisse@redhat.com, jrdr.linux@gmail.com, bhe@redhat.com,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, vbabka@suse.cz,
	richard.weiyang@gmail.com, dave.hansen@intel.com,
	rientjes@google.com, mingo@kernel.org,
	abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mpe@ellerman.id.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] sparse_init rewrite
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:59:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180713095934.GB15039@techadventures.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180712203730.8703-1-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 04:37:25PM -0400, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> Changelog:
> v5 - v4
> 	- Fixed the issue that was reported on ppc64 when
> 	  CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER is removed
> 	- Consolidated the new buffer allocation between vmemmap
> 	  and non-vmemmap variants of sparse layout.
> 	- Removed all review-by comments, because I had to do
> 	  significant amount of changes compared to previous version
> 	  and need another round of review.
> 	- I also would appreciate if those who reported problems with
> 	  PPC64 could test this change.

About PPC64, your patchset fixes the issue as the population gets followed by a
sparse_init_one_section().

It can be seen here:

Before:

kernel: vmemmap_populate f000000000000000..f000000000004000, node 0
kernel:       * f000000000000000..f000000000010000 allocated at (____ptrval____)
kernel: vmemmap_populate f000000000000000..f000000000008000, node 0
kernel:       * f000000000000000..f000000000010000 allocated at (____ptrval____)
kernel: vmemmap_populate f000000000000000..f00000000000c000, node 0
kernel:       * f000000000000000..f000000000010000 allocated at (____ptrval____)


After:

kernel: vmemmap_populate f000000000000000..f000000000004000, node 0
kernel:       * f000000000000000..f000000000010000 allocated at (____ptrval____)
kernel: vmemmap_populate f000000000000000..f000000000008000, node 0
kernel: vmemmap_populate f000000000000000..f00000000000c000, node 0
kernel: vmemmap_populate f000000000000000..f000000000010000, node 0
kernel: vmemmap_populate f000000000010000..f000000000014000, node 0
kernel:       * f000000000010000..f000000000020000 allocated at (____ptrval____)


As can be seen, before the patchset, we keep calling vmemmap_create_mapping() even if we
populated that section already, because of vmemmap_populated() checking for SECTION_HAS_MEM_MAP.

After the patchset, since each population is being followed by a call to sparse_init_one_section(),
when vmemmap_populated() gets called, we have SECTION_HAS_MEM_MAP already in case the section
was populated.
-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-13  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-12 20:37 [PATCH v5 0/5] sparse_init rewrite Pavel Tatashin
2018-07-12 20:37 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] mm/sparse: abstract sparse buffer allocations Pavel Tatashin
2018-07-12 22:45   ` Andrew Morton
2018-07-13 13:17   ` Oscar Salvador
2018-07-13 13:24     ` Pavel Tatashin
2018-07-13 20:02       ` Andrew Morton
2018-07-12 20:37 ` [PATCH v5 2/5] mm/sparse: use the new sparse buffer functions in non-vmemmap Pavel Tatashin
2018-07-12 20:37 ` [PATCH v5 3/5] mm/sparse: move buffer init/fini to the common place Pavel Tatashin
2018-07-12 20:37 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] mm/sparse: add new sparse_init_nid() and sparse_init() Pavel Tatashin
2018-07-13 12:03   ` Oscar Salvador
2018-07-13 12:37     ` Pavel Tatashin
2018-07-12 20:37 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] mm/sparse: delete old sprase_init and enable new one Pavel Tatashin
2018-07-13  9:09   ` Oscar Salvador
2018-07-13 11:15     ` Pavel Tatashin
2018-07-13  9:59 ` Oscar Salvador [this message]
2018-07-13 11:10   ` [PATCH v5 0/5] sparse_init rewrite Pavel Tatashin
2018-07-16  6:40     ` Michael Ellerman

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