From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org>,
"David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>,
Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
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Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
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Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>,
Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>,
Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
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Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
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Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
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Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>,
Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.18.y 2/5] mm/hugetlb: defer vmemmap population for bootmem hugepages
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 12:59:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260903165914.1085906-2-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260903165914.1085906-1-sashal@kernel.org>
From: "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit 209e6d9eb13aaf1b6e0fc6f76afc00d055e5ba12 ]
Currently, the vmemmap for bootmem-allocated gigantic pages is populated
early in hugetlb_vmemmap_init_early(). However, the zone information is
only available after zones are initialized. If it is later discovered
that a page spans multiple zones, the HVO mapping must be undone and
replaced with a normal mapping using vmemmap_undo_hvo().
Defer the actual vmemmap population to hugetlb_vmemmap_init_late(). At
this stage, zones are already initialized, so it can be checked if the
page is valid for HVO before deciding how to populate the vmemmap.
This allows us to remove vmemmap_undo_hvo() and the complex logic required
to rollback HVO mappings.
In hugetlb_vmemmap_init_late(), if HVO population fails or if the zones
are invalid, fall back to a normal vmemmap population.
Postponing population until hugetlb_vmemmap_init_late() also makes zone
information available from within vmemmap_populate_hvo().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260227194302.274384-10-kas@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>
Cc: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Stable-dep-of: 6e25c6a9c7ef ("mm/hugetlb_vmemmap: fix __hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folios()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 2 --
mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c | 37 +++++++++++++++----------------
mm/sparse-vmemmap.c | 53 --------------------------------------------
3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 92ba2489f2374..50710a5d4a05f 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -4101,8 +4101,6 @@ int vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node,
struct vmem_altmap *altmap);
int vmemmap_populate_hvo(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node,
unsigned long headsize);
-int vmemmap_undo_hvo(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node,
- unsigned long headsize);
void vmemmap_wrprotect_hvo(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node,
unsigned long headsize);
void vmemmap_populate_print_last(void);
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
index dd3f8438a9b64..b30a630dae62a 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
@@ -790,7 +790,6 @@ void __init hugetlb_vmemmap_init_early(int nid)
{
unsigned long psize, paddr, section_size;
unsigned long ns, i, pnum, pfn, nr_pages;
- unsigned long start, end;
struct huge_bootmem_page *m = NULL;
void *map;
@@ -816,14 +815,6 @@ void __init hugetlb_vmemmap_init_early(int nid)
paddr = virt_to_phys(m);
pfn = PHYS_PFN(paddr);
map = pfn_to_page(pfn);
- start = (unsigned long)map;
- end = start + nr_pages * sizeof(struct page);
-
- if (vmemmap_populate_hvo(start, end, nid,
- HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_RESERVE_SIZE) < 0)
- continue;
-
- memmap_boot_pages_add(HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_RESERVE_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE);
pnum = pfn_to_section_nr(pfn);
ns = psize / section_size;
@@ -861,28 +852,36 @@ void __init hugetlb_vmemmap_init_late(int nid)
h = m->hstate;
pfn = PHYS_PFN(phys);
nr_pages = pages_per_huge_page(h);
+ map = pfn_to_page(pfn);
+ start = (unsigned long)map;
+ end = start + nr_pages * sizeof(struct page);
if (!hugetlb_bootmem_page_zones_valid(nid, m)) {
/*
* Oops, the hugetlb page spans multiple zones.
- * Remove it from the list, and undo HVO.
+ * Remove it from the list, and populate it normally.
*/
list_del(&m->list);
- map = pfn_to_page(pfn);
-
- start = (unsigned long)map;
- end = start + nr_pages * sizeof(struct page);
-
- vmemmap_undo_hvo(start, end, nid,
- HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_RESERVE_SIZE);
- nr_mmap = end - start - HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_RESERVE_SIZE;
+ vmemmap_populate(start, end, nid, NULL);
+ nr_mmap = end - start;
memmap_boot_pages_add(DIV_ROUND_UP(nr_mmap, PAGE_SIZE));
memblock_phys_free(phys, huge_page_size(h));
continue;
- } else
+ }
+
+ if (vmemmap_populate_hvo(start, end, nid,
+ HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_RESERVE_SIZE) < 0) {
+ /* Fallback if HVO population fails */
+ vmemmap_populate(start, end, nid, NULL);
+ nr_mmap = end - start;
+ } else {
m->flags |= HUGE_BOOTMEM_ZONES_VALID;
+ nr_mmap = HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_RESERVE_SIZE;
+ }
+
+ memmap_boot_pages_add(DIV_ROUND_UP(nr_mmap, PAGE_SIZE));
}
}
#endif
diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
index 37522d6cb3988..032a81450838b 100644
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -302,59 +302,6 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate_basepages(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
return vmemmap_populate_range(start, end, node, altmap, -1, 0);
}
-/*
- * Undo populate_hvo, and replace it with a normal base page mapping.
- * Used in memory init in case a HVO mapping needs to be undone.
- *
- * This can happen when it is discovered that a memblock allocated
- * hugetlb page spans multiple zones, which can only be verified
- * after zones have been initialized.
- *
- * We know that:
- * 1) The first @headsize / PAGE_SIZE vmemmap pages were individually
- * allocated through memblock, and mapped.
- *
- * 2) The rest of the vmemmap pages are mirrors of the last head page.
- */
-int __meminit vmemmap_undo_hvo(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
- int node, unsigned long headsize)
-{
- unsigned long maddr, pfn;
- pte_t *pte;
- int headpages;
-
- /*
- * Should only be called early in boot, so nothing will
- * be accessing these page structures.
- */
- WARN_ON(!early_boot_irqs_disabled);
-
- headpages = headsize >> PAGE_SHIFT;
-
- /*
- * Clear mirrored mappings for tail page structs.
- */
- for (maddr = addr + headsize; maddr < end; maddr += PAGE_SIZE) {
- pte = virt_to_kpte(maddr);
- pte_clear(&init_mm, maddr, pte);
- }
-
- /*
- * Clear and free mappings for head page and first tail page
- * structs.
- */
- for (maddr = addr; headpages-- > 0; maddr += PAGE_SIZE) {
- pte = virt_to_kpte(maddr);
- pfn = pte_pfn(ptep_get(pte));
- pte_clear(&init_mm, maddr, pte);
- memblock_phys_free(PFN_PHYS(pfn), PAGE_SIZE);
- }
-
- flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, end);
-
- return vmemmap_populate(addr, end, node, NULL);
-}
-
/*
* Write protect the mirrored tail page structs for HVO. This will be
* called from the hugetlb code when gathering and initializing the
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-03 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-03 10:47 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/hugetlb_vmemmap: fix __hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folios()" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree gregkh
2026-09-03 16:59 ` [PATCH 6.18.y 1/5] mm: rework compound_head() for power-of-2 sizeof(struct page) Sasha Levin
2026-09-03 16:59 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2026-09-03 16:59 ` [PATCH 6.18.y 3/5] mm/hugetlb: refactor code around vmemmap_walk Sasha Levin
2026-09-03 16:59 ` [PATCH 6.18.y 4/5] hugetlb: remove VMEMMAP_SYNCHRONIZE_RCU Sasha Levin
2026-09-03 16:59 ` [PATCH 6.18.y 5/5] mm/hugetlb_vmemmap: fix __hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folios() Sasha Levin
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