Patch "mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     mm-sparsemem-allocate-mem_section-at-runtime-for-config_sparsemem_extreme-y.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 83e3c48729d9ebb7af5a31a504f3fd6aff0348c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:08:16 +0300
Subject: mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y

From: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

commit 83e3c48729d9ebb7af5a31a504f3fd6aff0348c4 upstream.

Size of the mem_section[] array depends on the size of the physical address space.

In preparation for boot-time switching between paging modes on x86-64
we need to make the allocation of mem_section[] dynamic, because otherwise
we waste a lot of RAM: with CONFIG_NODE_SHIFT=10, mem_section[] size is 32kB
for 4-level paging and 2MB for 5-level paging mode.

The patch allocates the array on the first call to sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions().

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170929140821.37654-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 include/linux/mmzone.h |    6 +++++-
 mm/page_alloc.c        |   10 ++++++++++
 mm/sparse.c            |   17 +++++++++++------
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -1152,13 +1152,17 @@ struct mem_section {
 #define SECTION_ROOT_MASK	(SECTIONS_PER_ROOT - 1)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
-extern struct mem_section *mem_section[NR_SECTION_ROOTS];
+extern struct mem_section **mem_section;
 #else
 extern struct mem_section mem_section[NR_SECTION_ROOTS][SECTIONS_PER_ROOT];
 #endif
 
 static inline struct mem_section *__nr_to_section(unsigned long nr)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
+	if (!mem_section)
+		return NULL;
+#endif
 	if (!mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)])
 		return NULL;
 	return &mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)][nr & SECTION_ROOT_MASK];
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5651,6 +5651,16 @@ void __init sparse_memory_present_with_a
 	unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn;
 	int i, this_nid;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
+	if (!mem_section) {
+		unsigned long size, align;
+
+		size = sizeof(struct mem_section) * NR_SECTION_ROOTS;
+		align = 1 << (INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT);
+		mem_section = memblock_virt_alloc(size, align);
+	}
+#endif
+
 	for_each_mem_pfn_range(i, nid, &start_pfn, &end_pfn, &this_nid)
 		memory_present(this_nid, start_pfn, end_pfn);
 }
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@
  * 1) mem_section	- memory sections, mem_map's for valid memory
  */
 #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
-struct mem_section *mem_section[NR_SECTION_ROOTS]
-	____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp;
+struct mem_section **mem_section;
 #else
 struct mem_section mem_section[NR_SECTION_ROOTS][SECTIONS_PER_ROOT]
 	____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp;
@@ -101,7 +100,7 @@ static inline int sparse_index_init(unsi
 int __section_nr(struct mem_section* ms)
 {
 	unsigned long root_nr;
-	struct mem_section* root;
+	struct mem_section *root = NULL;
 
 	for (root_nr = 0; root_nr < NR_SECTION_ROOTS; root_nr++) {
 		root = __nr_to_section(root_nr * SECTIONS_PER_ROOT);
@@ -112,7 +111,7 @@ int __section_nr(struct mem_section* ms)
 		     break;
 	}
 
-	VM_BUG_ON(root_nr == NR_SECTION_ROOTS);
+	VM_BUG_ON(!root);
 
 	return (root_nr * SECTIONS_PER_ROOT) + (ms - root);
 }
@@ -330,11 +329,17 @@ again:
 static void __init check_usemap_section_nr(int nid, unsigned long *usemap)
 {
 	unsigned long usemap_snr, pgdat_snr;
-	static unsigned long old_usemap_snr = NR_MEM_SECTIONS;
-	static unsigned long old_pgdat_snr = NR_MEM_SECTIONS;
+	static unsigned long old_usemap_snr;
+	static unsigned long old_pgdat_snr;
 	struct pglist_data *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
 	int usemap_nid;
 
+	/* First call */
+	if (!old_usemap_snr) {
+		old_usemap_snr = NR_MEM_SECTIONS;
+		old_pgdat_snr = NR_MEM_SECTIONS;
+	}
+
 	usemap_snr = pfn_to_section_nr(__pa(usemap) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 	pgdat_snr = pfn_to_section_nr(__pa(pgdat) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 	if (usemap_snr == pgdat_snr)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com are

queue-4.14/x86-xen-provide-pre-built-page-tables-only-for-config_xen_pv-y-and-config_xen_pvh-y.patch
queue-4.14/x86-xen-drop-5-level-paging-support-code-from-the-xen_pv-code.patch
queue-4.14/x86-kasan-use-the-same-shadow-offset-for-4-and-5-level-paging.patch
queue-4.14/mm-sparsemem-allocate-mem_section-at-runtime-for-config_sparsemem_extreme-y.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-relocate-page-fault-error-codes-to-traps.h.patch