From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
"Liam R . Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Christophe Leroy <chleroy@kernel.org>,
Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@gmail.com>,
"Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 14/19] mm/hugetlb: Free cross-zone bootmem gigantic pages after allocation
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:46:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ai54gBQ0TiWKE080@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260612035903.2468601-15-songmuchun@bytedance.com>
On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 11:58:58AM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> Now that hugetlb reservation runs after zone initialization, bootmem
> gigantic page allocation can detect pages that span multiple zones.
>
> Keep those cross-zone pages separate during allocation and free them
> after allocation completes, so later hugetlb initialization only sees
> zone-valid gigantic pages.
>
> This chooses to free cross-zone gigantic pages directly instead of
> retrying allocation. In practice, such cross-zone cases are expected to
> be very rare, so adding retry logic does not seem justified at this
> point. Keeping the handling simple also preserves the previous behavior.
> If similar real-world reports show up later, retry support can be
> reconsidered then.
>
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
> ---
> mm/hugetlb.c | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 64 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-14 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-12 3:58 [PATCH v4 00/19] mm: Refactor bootmem gigantic hugepage allocation Muchun Song
2026-06-12 3:58 ` [PATCH v4 01/19] mm/hugetlb: Fix boot panic with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM and HVO bootmem pages Muchun Song
2026-06-12 3:58 ` [PATCH v4 02/19] mm/hugetlb_vmemmap: Fix __hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folios() Muchun Song
2026-06-12 15:37 ` Frank van der Linden
2026-06-12 3:58 ` [PATCH v4 03/19] powerpc/mm: Fix wrong addr_pfn tracking in compound vmemmap population Muchun Song
2026-06-12 3:58 ` [PATCH v4 04/19] mm/hugetlb: Initialize gigantic bootmem hugepage struct pages earlier Muchun Song
2026-06-12 3:58 ` [PATCH v4 05/19] mm/mm_init: Simplify deferred_free_pages() migratetype init Muchun Song
2026-06-12 3:58 ` [PATCH v4 06/19] mm/sparse: Panic on memmap and usemap allocation failure Muchun Song
2026-06-12 3:58 ` [PATCH v4 07/19] mm/sparse: Move subsection_map_init() into sparse_init() Muchun Song
2026-06-12 3:58 ` [PATCH v4 08/19] mm/mm_init: Defer sparse_init() until after zone initialization Muchun Song
2026-06-12 3:58 ` [PATCH v4 09/19] mm/mm_init: Defer hugetlb reservation " Muchun Song
2026-06-12 3:58 ` [PATCH v4 10/19] mm/mm_init: Remove set_pageblock_order() call from sparse_init() Muchun Song
2026-06-12 3:58 ` [PATCH v4 11/19] mm/sparse: Move sparse_vmemmap_init_nid_late() into sparse_init_nid() Muchun Song
2026-06-12 3:58 ` [PATCH v4 12/19] mm/hugetlb_cma: Validate hugetlb CMA range by zone at reserve time Muchun Song
2026-06-12 3:58 ` [PATCH v4 13/19] mm/hugetlb: Refactor early boot gigantic hugepage allocation Muchun Song
2026-06-12 3:58 ` [PATCH v4 14/19] mm/hugetlb: Free cross-zone bootmem gigantic pages after allocation Muchun Song
2026-06-14 9:46 ` Mike Rapoport [this message]
2026-06-12 3:58 ` [PATCH v4 15/19] mm/hugetlb_vmemmap: Move bootmem HVO setup to early init Muchun Song
2026-06-12 3:59 ` [PATCH v4 16/19] mm/hugetlb: Remove obsolete bootmem cross-zone checks Muchun Song
2026-06-12 3:59 ` [PATCH v4 17/19] mm/sparse-vmemmap: Remove sparse_vmemmap_init_nid_late() Muchun Song
2026-06-12 3:59 ` [PATCH v4 18/19] mm/hugetlb: Remove unused bootmem cma field Muchun Song
2026-06-12 3:59 ` [PATCH v4 19/19] mm/mm_init: Fold __init_page_from_nid() into __init_deferred_page() Muchun Song
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