Re: [PATCH v8 03/12] mm/bootmem_info: Introduce free_bootmem_page helper

Oscar Salvador
2020-12-10T14:17:17Z

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:55:17AM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> Any memory allocated via the memblock allocator and not via the buddy
> will be makred reserved already in the memmap. For those pages, we can
marked
> call free_bootmem_page() to free it to buddy allocator.
>
> Becasue we wan to free some vmemmap pages of the HugeTLB to the buddy
Because want
> allocator, we can use this helper to do that in the later patchs.
patches

To be honest, I think if would be best to introduce this along with
patch#4, so we get to see where it gets used.

> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
> ---
> include/linux/bootmem_info.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/bootmem_info.h b/include/linux/bootmem_info.h
> index 4ed6dee1adc9..20a8b0df0c39 100644
> --- a/include/linux/bootmem_info.h
> +++ b/include/linux/bootmem_info.h
> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
> #define __LINUX_BOOTMEM_INFO_H
>
> #include <linux/mmzone.h>
> +#include <linux/mm.h>

<linux/mm.h> already includes <linux/mmzone.h>

> +static inline void free_bootmem_page(struct page *page)
> +{
> + unsigned long magic = (unsigned long)page->freelist;
> +
> + /* bootmem page has reserved flag in the reserve_bootmem_region */
reserve_bootmem_region sets the reserved flag on bootmem pages?

> + VM_WARN_ON(!PageReserved(page) || page_ref_count(page) != 2);

We do check for PageReserved in patch#4 before calling in here.
Do we need yet another check here? IOW, do we need to be this paranoid?

> + if (magic == SECTION_INFO || magic == MIX_SECTION_INFO)
> + put_page_bootmem(page);
> + else
> + WARN_ON(1);

Lately, some people have been complaining about using WARN_ON as some
systems come with panic_on_warn set.

I would say that in this case it does not matter much as if the vmemmap
pages are not either SECTION_INFO or MIX_SECTION_INFO it means that a
larger corruption happened elsewhere.

But I think I would align the checks here.
It does not make sense to me to only scream under DEBUG_VM if page's
refcount differs from 2, and have a WARN_ON if the page we are trying
to free was not used for the memmap array.
Both things imply a corruption, so I would set the checks under the same
configurations.

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Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3