Re: [PATCH] mm/cma: add an API to enable/disable concurrent memory allocation for the CMA

Barry Song
2025-01-28T09:58:47Z

On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM <yangge1116@126.com> wrote:
>
> From: yangge <yangge1116@126.com>
>
> Commit 60a60e32cf91 ("Revert "mm/cma.c: remove redundant cma_mutex lock"")
> simply reverts to the original method of using the cma_mutex to ensure
> that alloc_contig_range() runs sequentially. This change was made to avoid
> concurrency allocation failures. However, it can negatively impact
> performance when concurrent allocation of CMA memory is required.

Do we have some data?

>
> To address this issue, we could introduce an API for concurrency settings,
> allowing users to decide whether their CMA can perform concurrent memory
> allocations or not.

Who is the intended user of cma_set_concurrency? I also feel it is somewhat
unsafe since cma->concurr_alloc is not protected by any locks.

Will a user setting cma->concurr_alloc = 1 encounter the original issue that
commit 60a60e32cf91 was attempting to fix?

>
> Fixes: 60a60e32cf91 ("Revert "mm/cma.c: remove redundant cma_mutex lock"")
> Signed-off-by: yangge <yangge1116@126.com>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> ---
> include/linux/cma.h | 2 ++
> mm/cma.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
> mm/cma.h | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/cma.h b/include/linux/cma.h
> index d15b64f..2384624 100644
> --- a/include/linux/cma.h
> +++ b/include/linux/cma.h
> @@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ extern int cma_for_each_area(int (*it)(struct cma *cma, void *data), void *data)
>
> extern void cma_reserve_pages_on_error(struct cma *cma);
>
> +extern bool cma_set_concurrency(struct cma *cma, bool concurrency);
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_CMA
> struct folio *cma_alloc_folio(struct cma *cma, int order, gfp_t gfp);
> bool cma_free_folio(struct cma *cma, const struct folio *folio);
> diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
> index de5bc0c..49a7186 100644
> --- a/mm/cma.c
> +++ b/mm/cma.c
> @@ -460,9 +460,17 @@ static struct page *__cma_alloc(struct cma *cma, unsigned long count,
> spin_unlock_irq(&cma->lock);
>
> pfn = cma->base_pfn + (bitmap_no << cma->order_per_bit);
> - mutex_lock(&cma_mutex);
> +
> + /*
> + * If the user sets the concurr_alloc of CMA to true, concurrent
> + * memory allocation is allowed. If the user sets it to false or
> + * does not set it, concurrent memory allocation is not allowed.
> + */
> + if (!cma->concurr_alloc)
> + mutex_lock(&cma_mutex);
> ret = alloc_contig_range(pfn, pfn + count, MIGRATE_CMA, gfp);
> - mutex_unlock(&cma_mutex);
> + if (!cma->concurr_alloc)
> + mutex_unlock(&cma_mutex);
> if (ret == 0) {
> page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
> break;
> @@ -610,3 +618,13 @@ int cma_for_each_area(int (*it)(struct cma *cma, void *data), void *data)
>
> return 0;
> }
> +
> +bool cma_set_concurrency(struct cma *cma, bool concurrency)
> +{
> + if (!cma)
> + return false;
> +
> + cma->concurr_alloc = concurrency;
> +
> + return true;
> +}
> diff --git a/mm/cma.h b/mm/cma.h
> index 8485ef8..30f489d 100644
> --- a/mm/cma.h
> +++ b/mm/cma.h
> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ struct cma {
> unsigned long *bitmap;
> unsigned int order_per_bit; /* Order of pages represented by one bit */
> spinlock_t lock;
> + bool concurr_alloc;
> #ifdef CONFIG_CMA_DEBUGFS
> struct hlist_head mem_head;
> spinlock_t mem_head_lock;
> --
> 2.7.4
>
>

Thanks
Barry