+ mm-cma-allocate-cma-areas-bottom-up.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm@linux-foundation.org]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm: cma: allocate cma areas bottom-up
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     mm-cma-allocate-cma-areas-bottom-up.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-cma-allocate-cma-areas-bottom-up.patch
and later at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-cma-allocate-cma-areas-bottom-up.patch

Before you just go and hit "reply", please:
   a) Consider who else should be cc'ed
   b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well
   c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a
      reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's

*** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code ***

The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated
there every 3-4 working days

------------------------------------------------------
From: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Subject: mm: cma: allocate cma areas bottom-up

Currently cma areas without a fixed base are allocated close to the end of
the node.  This placement is sub-optimal because of compaction: it brings
pages into the cma area.  In particular, it can bring in hot executable
pages, even if there is a plenty of free memory on the machine.  This
results in cma allocation failures.

Instead let's place cma areas close to the beginning of a node.  In this
case the compaction will help to free cma areas, resulting in better cma
allocation success rates.

If there is enough memory let's try to allocate bottom-up starting with
4GB to exclude any possible interference with DMA32.  On smaller machines
or in a case of a failure, stick with the old behavior.

16GB vm, 2GB cma area:
With this patch:
[    0.000000] Command line: root=/dev/vda3 rootflags=subvol=/root systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 enforcing=0 console=ttyS0,115200 hugetlb_cma=2G
[    0.002928] hugetlb_cma: reserve 2048 MiB, up to 2048 MiB per node
[    0.002930] cma: Reserved 2048 MiB at 0x0000000100000000
[    0.002931] hugetlb_cma: reserved 2048 MiB on node 0

Without this patch:
[    0.000000] Command line: root=/dev/vda3 rootflags=subvol=/root systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 enforcing=0 console=ttyS0,115200 hugetlb_cma=2G
[    0.002930] hugetlb_cma: reserve 2048 MiB, up to 2048 MiB per node
[    0.002933] cma: Reserved 2048 MiB at 0x00000003c0000000
[    0.002934] hugetlb_cma: reserved 2048 MiB on node 0

v2:
  - switched to memblock_set_bottom_up(true), by Mike
  - start with 4GB, by Mike

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201217201214.3414100-1-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Wonhyuk Yang <vvghjk1234@gmail.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/cma.c |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/cma.c~mm-cma-allocate-cma-areas-bottom-up
+++ a/mm/cma.c
@@ -336,6 +336,22 @@ int __init cma_declare_contiguous_nid(ph
 			limit = highmem_start;
 		}
 
+		/*
+		 * If there is enough memory, try a bottom-up allocation first.
+		 * It will place the new cma area close to the start of the node
+		 * and guarantee that the compaction is moving pages out of the
+		 * cma area and not into it.
+		 * Avoid using first 4GB to not interfere with constrained zones
+		 * like DMA/DMA32.
+		 */
+		if (!memblock_bottom_up() &&
+		    memblock_end >= SZ_4G + size) {
+			memblock_set_bottom_up(true);
+			addr = memblock_alloc_range_nid(size, alignment, SZ_4G,
+							limit, nid, true);
+			memblock_set_bottom_up(false);
+		}
+
 		if (!addr) {
 			addr = memblock_alloc_range_nid(size, alignment, base,
 					limit, nid, true);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from guro@fb.com are

mm-slub-call-account_slab_page-after-slab-page-initialization.patch
mm-memcg-slab-pre-allocate-obj_cgroups-for-slab-caches-with-slab_account.patch
mm-cma-allocate-cma-areas-bottom-up.patch
mm-cma-allocate-cma-areas-bottom-up-fix.patch
memblock-do-not-start-bottom-up-allocations-with-kernel_end.patch
mm-vmstat-fix-proc-sys-vm-stat_refresh-generating-false-warnings.patch
mm-vmstat-fix-proc-sys-vm-stat_refresh-generating-false-warnings-fix.patch