[PATCH v12 05/13] mm/hugetlb: Defer freeing of HugeTLB pages

Muchun Song
2021-01-06T14:21:41Z

In the subsequent patch, we should allocate the vmemmap pages when
freeing HugeTLB pages. But update_and_free_page() is always called
with holding hugetlb_lock, so we cannot use GFP_KERNEL to allocate
vmemmap pages. However, we can defer the actual freeing in a kworker
to prevent from using GFP_ATOMIC to allocate the vmemmap pages.

The update_hpage_vmemmap_workfn() is where the call to allocate
vmemmmap pages will be inserted.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c | 12 ---------
mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.h | 17 ++++++++++++
3 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 140135fc8113..c165186ec2cf 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1292,15 +1292,85 @@ static inline void destroy_compound_gigantic_page(struct page *page,
unsigned int order) { }
#endif

-static void update_and_free_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page)
+static void __free_hugepage(struct hstate *h, struct page *page);
+
+/*
+ * As update_and_free_page() is always called with holding hugetlb_lock, so we
+ * cannot use GFP_KERNEL to allocate vmemmap pages. However, we can defer the
+ * actual freeing in a workqueue to prevent from using GFP_ATOMIC to allocate
+ * the vmemmap pages.
+ *
+ * The update_hpage_vmemmap_workfn() is where the call to allocate vmemmmap
+ * pages will be inserted.
+ *
+ * update_hpage_vmemmap_workfn() locklessly retrieves the linked list of pages
+ * to be freed and frees them one-by-one. As the page->mapping pointer is going
+ * to be cleared in update_hpage_vmemmap_workfn() anyway, it is reused as the
+ * llist_node structure of a lockless linked list of huge pages to be freed.
+ */
+static LLIST_HEAD(hpage_update_freelist);
+
+static void update_hpage_vmemmap_workfn(struct work_struct *work)
{
- int i;
+ struct llist_node *node;
+
+ node = llist_del_all(&hpage_update_freelist);
+
+ while (node) {
+ struct page *page;
+ struct hstate *h;
+
+ page = container_of((struct address_space **)node,
+ struct page, mapping);
+ node = node->next;
+ page->mapping = NULL;
+ h = page_hstate(page);
+
+ spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
+ __free_hugepage(h, page);
+ spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);

+ cond_resched();
+ }
+}
+static DECLARE_WORK(hpage_update_work, update_hpage_vmemmap_workfn);
+
+static inline void __update_and_free_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page)
+{
+ /* No need to allocate vmemmap pages */
+ if (!free_vmemmap_pages_per_hpage(h)) {
+ __free_hugepage(h, page);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Defer freeing to avoid using GFP_ATOMIC to allocate vmemmap
+ * pages.
+ *
+ * Only call schedule_work() if hpage_update_freelist is previously
+ * empty. Otherwise, schedule_work() had been called but the workfn
+ * hasn't retrieved the list yet.
+ */
+ if (llist_add((struct llist_node *)&page->mapping,
+ &hpage_update_freelist))
+ schedule_work(&hpage_update_work);
+}
+
+static void update_and_free_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page)
+{
if (hstate_is_gigantic(h) && !gigantic_page_runtime_supported())
return;

h->nr_huge_pages--;
h->nr_huge_pages_node[page_to_nid(page)]--;
+
+ __update_and_free_page(h, page);
+}
+
+static void __free_hugepage(struct hstate *h, struct page *page)
+{
+ int i;
+
for (i = 0; i < pages_per_huge_page(h); i++) {
page[i].flags &= ~(1 << PG_locked | 1 << PG_error |
1 << PG_referenced | 1 << PG_dirty |
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
index 4ffa2a4ae2a8..19f1898aaede 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
@@ -178,18 +178,6 @@
#define RESERVE_VMEMMAP_NR 2U
#define RESERVE_VMEMMAP_SIZE (RESERVE_VMEMMAP_NR << PAGE_SHIFT)

-/*
- * How many vmemmap pages associated with a HugeTLB page that can be freed
- * to the buddy allocator.
- *
- * Todo: Returns zero for now, which means the feature is disabled. We will
- * enable it once all the infrastructure is there.
- */
-static inline unsigned int free_vmemmap_pages_per_hpage(struct hstate *h)
-{
- return 0;
-}
-
static inline unsigned long free_vmemmap_pages_size_per_hpage(struct hstate *h)
{
return (unsigned long)free_vmemmap_pages_per_hpage(h) << PAGE_SHIFT;
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.h b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.h
index 6923f03534d5..01f8637adbe0 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.h
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.h
@@ -12,9 +12,26 @@

#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
void free_huge_page_vmemmap(struct hstate *h, struct page *head);
+
+/*
+ * How many vmemmap pages associated with a HugeTLB page that can be freed
+ * to the buddy allocator.
+ *
+ * Todo: Returns zero for now, which means the feature is disabled. We will
+ * enable it once all the infrastructure is there.
+ */
+static inline unsigned int free_vmemmap_pages_per_hpage(struct hstate *h)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
#else
static inline void free_huge_page_vmemmap(struct hstate *h, struct page *head)
{
}
+
+static inline unsigned int free_vmemmap_pages_per_hpage(struct hstate *h)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
#endif /* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP */
#endif /* _LINUX_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_H */
--
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