Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] hugetlb: allow to free gigantic pages regardless of the configuration

Alexandre Ghiti
2019-03-14T11:43:51Z

On 03/14/2019 06:52 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr> writes:
>
>> On systems without CONTIG_ALLOC activated but that support gigantic pages,
>> boottime reserved gigantic pages can not be freed at all. This patch
>> simply enables the possibility to hand back those pages to memory
>> allocator.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
>> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [sparc]
>> ---
>> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 2 +-
>> arch/arm64/include/asm/hugetlb.h | 4 --
>> arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hugetlb.h | 7 ---
>> arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype | 2 +-
>> arch/s390/Kconfig | 2 +-
>> arch/s390/include/asm/hugetlb.h | 3 --
>> arch/sh/Kconfig | 2 +-
>> arch/sparc/Kconfig | 2 +-
>> arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +-
>> arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h | 4 --
>> include/linux/gfp.h | 2 +-
>> mm/hugetlb.c | 57 ++++++++++++--------
>> mm/page_alloc.c | 4 +-
>> 13 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>> index 091a513b93e9..af687eff884a 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ config ARM64
>> select ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER
>> select ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
>> select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
>> - select ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE if CONTIG_ALLOC
>> + select ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE
>> select ARCH_HAS_KCOV
>> select ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
>> select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/hugetlb.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/hugetlb.h
>> index fb6609875455..59893e766824 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/hugetlb.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/hugetlb.h
>> @@ -65,8 +65,4 @@ extern void set_huge_swap_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
>>
>> #include <asm-generic/hugetlb.h>
>>
>> -#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE
>> -static inline bool gigantic_page_supported(void) { return true; }
>> -#endif
>> -
>> #endif /* __ASM_HUGETLB_H */
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hugetlb.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hugetlb.h
>> index 5b0177733994..d04a0bcc2f1c 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hugetlb.h
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hugetlb.h
>> @@ -32,13 +32,6 @@ static inline int hstate_get_psize(struct hstate *hstate)
>> }
>> }
>>
>> -#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE
>> -static inline bool gigantic_page_supported(void)
>> -{
>> - return true;
>> -}
>> -#endif
>> -
>> /* hugepd entry valid bit */
>> #define HUGEPD_VAL_BITS (0x8000000000000000UL)
>>
> As explained in https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1047003/
> architectures like ppc64 have a hypervisor assisted mechanism to indicate
> where to find gigantic huge pages(16G pages). At this point, we don't use this
> reserved pages for anything other than hugetlb backing and hence there
> is no runtime free of this pages needed ( Also we don't do
> runtime allocation of them).
>
> I guess you can still achieve what you want to do in this patch by
> keeping gigantic_page_supported()?
>
> NOTE: We should rename gigantic_page_supported to be more specific to
> support for runtime_alloc/free of gigantic pages
>
> -aneesh
>
Thanks for noticing Aneesh.

I can't find a better solution than bringing back
gigantic_page_supported check,
since it is must be done at runtime in your case.
I'm not sure of one thing though: you say that freeing boottime gigantic
pages
is not needed, but is it forbidden ? Just to know where the check and
what its
new name should be.
Is something like that (on top of this series) ok for you (and everyone
else) before
I send a v7:

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hugetlb.h
b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hugetlb.h
index d04a0bc..d121559 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hugetlb.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hugetlb.h
@@ -35,4 +35,20 @@ static inline int hstate_get_psize(struct hstate *hstate)
/* hugepd entry valid bit */
#define HUGEPD_VAL_BITS                (0x8000000000000000UL)

+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_GIGANTIC_PAGE_SUPPORTED
+static inline bool gigantic_page_supported(void)
+{
+       /*
+        * We used gigantic page reservation with hypervisor assist in
some case.
+        * We cannot use runtime allocation of gigantic pages in those
platforms
+        * This is hash translation mode LPARs.
+        */
+       if (firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_LPAR) && !radix_enabled())
+               return false;
+
+       return true;
+}
+#endif
+
#endif
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/hugetlb.h b/include/asm-generic/hugetlb.h
index 71d7b77..7d12e73 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/hugetlb.h
@@ -126,4 +126,18 @@ static inline pte_t huge_ptep_get(pte_t *ptep)
}
#endif

+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_GIGANTIC_PAGE_SUPPORTED
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE
+static inline bool gigantic_page_supported(void)
+{
+        return true;
+}
+#else
+static inline bool gigantic_page_supported(void)
+{
+        return false;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE */
+#endif /* __HAVE_ARCH_GIGANTIC_PAGE_SUPPORTED */
+
#endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_HUGETLB_H */
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 9fc96ef..cfbbafe 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2425,6 +2425,11 @@ static ssize_t __nr_hugepages_store_common(bool
obey_mempolicy,
int err;
NODEMASK_ALLOC(nodemask_t, nodes_allowed, GFP_KERNEL |
__GFP_NORETRY);

+       if (hstate_is_gigantic(h) && !gigantic_page_supported()) {
+               err = -EINVAL;
+               goto out;
+       }
+
if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE) {
/*
* global hstate attribute
@@ -2446,6 +2451,7 @@ static ssize_t __nr_hugepages_store_common(bool
obey_mempolicy,

err = set_max_huge_pages(h, count, nodes_allowed);

+out:
if (nodes_allowed != &node_states[N_MEMORY])
NODEMASK_FREE(nodes_allowed);