[RFC PATCH 7/8] hugetlb: add update_and_free_page_no_sleep for irq context

Mike Kravetz
2021-03-19T22:44:12Z

The locks acquired in free_huge_page are irq safe. However, in certain
circumstances the routine update_and_free_page could sleep. Since
free_huge_page can be called from any context, it can not sleep.

Use a waitqueue to defer freeing of pages if the operation may sleep. A
new routine update_and_free_page_no_sleep provides this functionality
and is only called from free_huge_page.

Note that any 'pages' sent to the workqueue for deferred freeing have
already been removed from the hugetlb subsystem. What is actually
deferred is returning those base pages to the low level allocator.

Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
---
include/linux/hugetlb.h | 12 +++++-
mm/hugetlb.c | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index f42d44050548..a81ca39c06be 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -666,9 +666,14 @@ static inline unsigned huge_page_shift(struct hstate *h)
return h->order + PAGE_SHIFT;
}

+static inline bool order_is_gigantic(unsigned int order)
+{
+ return order >= MAX_ORDER;
+}
+
static inline bool hstate_is_gigantic(struct hstate *h)
{
- return huge_page_order(h) >= MAX_ORDER;
+ return order_is_gigantic(huge_page_order(h));
}

static inline unsigned int pages_per_huge_page(struct hstate *h)
@@ -942,6 +947,11 @@ static inline unsigned int huge_page_shift(struct hstate *h)
return PAGE_SHIFT;
}

+static inline bool order_is_gigantic(unsigned int order)
+{
+ return false;
+}
+
static inline bool hstate_is_gigantic(struct hstate *h)
{
return false;
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 82614bbe7bb9..b8304b290a73 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1351,7 +1351,60 @@ static void remove_hugetlb_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page,
h->nr_huge_pages_node[nid]--;
}

-static void update_and_free_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page)
+/*
+ * free_huge_page() can be called from any context. However, the freeing
+ * of a hugetlb page can potentially sleep. If freeing will sleep, defer
+ * the actual freeing to a workqueue to prevent sleeping in contexts where
+ * sleeping is not allowed.
+ *
+ * Use the page->mapping pointer as a llist_node structure for the lockless
+ * linked list of pages to be freeed. free_hpage_workfn() locklessly
+ * retrieves the linked list of pages to be freed and frees them one-by-one.
+ *
+ * The page passed to __free_huge_page is technically not a hugetlb page, so
+ * we can not use interfaces such as page_hstate().
+ */
+static void __free_huge_page(struct page *page)
+{
+ unsigned int order = compound_order(page);
+
+ if (order_is_gigantic(order)) {
+ destroy_compound_gigantic_page(page, order);
+ free_gigantic_page(page, order);
+ } else {
+ __free_pages(page, order);
+ }
+}
+
+static LLIST_HEAD(hpage_freelist);
+
+static void free_hpage_workfn(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ struct llist_node *node;
+ struct page *page;
+
+ node = llist_del_all(&hpage_freelist);
+
+ while (node) {
+ page = container_of((struct address_space **)node,
+ struct page, mapping);
+ node = node->next;
+ __free_huge_page(page);
+ }
+}
+static DECLARE_WORK(free_hpage_work, free_hpage_workfn);
+
+static bool free_page_may_sleep(struct hstate *h, struct page *page)
+{
+ /* freeing gigantic pages in CMA may sleep */
+ if (hstate_is_gigantic(h))
+ return true;
+
+ return false;
+}
+
+static void __update_and_free_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page,
+ bool can_sleep)
{
int i;
struct page *subpage = page;
@@ -1366,6 +1419,21 @@ static void update_and_free_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page)
1 << PG_active | 1 << PG_private |
1 << PG_writeback);
}
+
+ if (!can_sleep && free_page_may_sleep(h, page)) {
+ /*
+ * Send page freeing to workqueue
+ *
+ * Only call schedule_work() if hpage_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_freelist))
+ schedule_work(&free_hpage_work);
+ return;
+ }
+
if (hstate_is_gigantic(h)) {
destroy_compound_gigantic_page(page, huge_page_order(h));
free_gigantic_page(page, huge_page_order(h));
@@ -1374,6 +1442,18 @@ static void update_and_free_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page)
}
}

+static void update_and_free_page_no_sleep(struct hstate *h, struct page *page)
+{
+ /* can not sleep */
+ return __update_and_free_page(h, page, false);
+}
+
+static void update_and_free_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page)
+{
+ /* can sleep */
+ return __update_and_free_page(h, page, true);
+}
+
struct hstate *size_to_hstate(unsigned long size)
{
struct hstate *h;
@@ -1436,12 +1516,12 @@ void free_huge_page(struct page *page)
if (HPageTemporary(page)) {
remove_hugetlb_page(h, page, false);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hugetlb_lock, flags);
- update_and_free_page(h, page);
+ update_and_free_page_no_sleep(h, page);
} else if (h->surplus_huge_pages_node[nid]) {
/* remove the page from active list */
remove_hugetlb_page(h, page, true);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hugetlb_lock, flags);
- update_and_free_page(h, page);
+ update_and_free_page_no_sleep(h, page);
} else {
arch_clear_hugepage_flags(page);
enqueue_huge_page(h, page);
--
2.30.2