Re: [Patch v4 08/12] memory-hotplug: remove memmap of sparse-vmemmap

From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu
Date: Thu Nov 29 2012 - 21:56:35 EST


Hi Jianguo,

2012/11/30 11:47, Jianguo Wu wrote:
Hi Congyang,

Thanks for your review and comments.

On 2012/11/30 9:45, Wen Congyang wrote:

At 11/28/2012 05:40 PM, Jianguo Wu Wrote:
Hi Congyang,

I think vmemmap's pgtable pages should be freed after all entries are cleared, I have a patch to do this.
The code logic is the same as [Patch v4 09/12] memory-hotplug: remove page table of x86_64 architecture.

How do you think about this?

Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 1 +
mm/sparse-vmemmap.c | 214 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/sparse.c | 5 +-
3 files changed, 218 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 5657670..1f26af5 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1642,6 +1642,7 @@ int vmemmap_populate(struct page *start_page, unsigned long pages, int node);
void vmemmap_populate_print_last(void);
void register_page_bootmem_memmap(unsigned long section_nr, struct page *map,
unsigned long size);
+void vmemmap_free(struct page *memmap, unsigned long nr_pages);

enum mf_flags {
MF_COUNT_INCREASED = 1 << 0,
diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
index 1b7e22a..242cb28 100644
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
#include <asm/pgalloc.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>

+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
+#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
+#endif
+
/*
* Allocate a block of memory to be used to back the virtual memory map
* or to back the page tables that are used to create the mapping.
@@ -224,3 +228,213 @@ void __init sparse_mem_maps_populate_node(struct page **map_map,
vmemmap_buf_end = NULL;
}
}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
+static void vmemmap_free_pages(struct page *page, int order)
+{
+ struct zone *zone;
+ unsigned long magic;
+
+ magic = (unsigned long) page->lru.next;
+ if (magic == SECTION_INFO || magic == MIX_SECTION_INFO) {
+ put_page_bootmem(page);
+
+ zone = page_zone(page);
+ zone_span_writelock(zone);
+ zone->present_pages++;
+ zone_span_writeunlock(zone);
+ totalram_pages++;
+ } else {
+ if (is_vmalloc_addr(page_address(page)))
+ vfree(page_address(page));

Hmm, vmemmap doesn't use vmalloc() to allocate memory.


yes, this can be removed.

+ else
+ free_pages((unsigned long)page_address(page), order);
+ }
+}
+
+static void free_pte_table(pmd_t *pmd)
+{
+ pte_t *pte, *pte_start;
+ int i;
+
+ pte_start = (pte_t *)pmd_page_vaddr(*pmd);
+ for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PTE; i++) {
+ pte = pte_start + i;
+ if (pte_val(*pte))
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /* free a pte talbe */
+ vmemmap_free_pages(pmd_page(*pmd), 0);
+ spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
+ pmd_clear(pmd);
+ spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
+}
+
+static void free_pmd_table(pud_t *pud)
+{
+ pmd_t *pmd, *pmd_start;
+ int i;
+
+ pmd_start = (pmd_t *)pud_page_vaddr(*pud);
+ for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PMD; i++) {
+ pmd = pmd_start + i;
+ if (pmd_val(*pmd))
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /* free a pmd talbe */
+ vmemmap_free_pages(pud_page(*pud), 0);
+ spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
+ pud_clear(pud);
+ spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
+}
+
+static void free_pud_table(pgd_t *pgd)
+{
+ pud_t *pud, *pud_start;
+ int i;
+
+ pud_start = (pud_t *)pgd_page_vaddr(*pgd);
+ for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PUD; i++) {
+ pud = pud_start + i;
+ if (pud_val(*pud))
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /* free a pud table */
+ vmemmap_free_pages(pgd_page(*pgd), 0);
+ spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
+ pgd_clear(pgd);
+ spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
+}
+
+static int split_large_page(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address, pte_t *pbase)
+{
+ struct page *page = pmd_page(*(pmd_t *)kpte);
+ int i = 0;
+ unsigned long magic;
+ unsigned long section_nr;
+
+ __split_large_page(kpte, address, pbase);
+ __flush_tlb_all();
+
+ magic = (unsigned long) page->lru.next;
+ if (magic == SECTION_INFO) {
+ section_nr = pfn_to_section_nr(page_to_pfn(page));
+ while (i < PTRS_PER_PMD) {
+ page++;
+ i++;
+ get_page_bootmem(section_nr, page, SECTION_INFO);
+ }
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static void vmemmap_pte_remove(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
+{
+ pte_t *pte;
+ unsigned long next;
+
+ pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, addr);
+ for (; addr < end; pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
+ next = (addr + PAGE_SIZE) & PAGE_MASK;
+ if (next > end)
+ next = end;
+
+ if (pte_none(*pte))
+ continue;
+ if (IS_ALIGNED(addr, PAGE_SIZE) &&
+ IS_ALIGNED(end, PAGE_SIZE)) {
+ vmemmap_free_pages(pte_page(*pte), 0);
+ spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
+ pte_clear(&init_mm, addr, pte);
+ spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);

If addr or end is not alianed with PAGE_SIZE, you may leak some
memory.


yes, I think we can handle this situation with the method you mentioned in the change log:
1. When removing memory, the page structs of the revmoved memory are filled
with 0xFD.
2. All page structs are filled with 0xFD on PT/PMD, PT/PMD can be cleared.
In this case, the page used as PT/PMD can be freed.

By the way, why is 0xFD?

There is no reason. I just filled the page with unique number.

Thanks,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu


+ }
+ }
+
+ free_pte_table(pmd);
+ __flush_tlb_all();
+}
+
+static void vmemmap_pmd_remove(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
+{
+ unsigned long next;
+ pmd_t *pmd;
+
+ pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
+ for (; addr < end; addr = next, pmd++) {
+ next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
+ if (pmd_none(*pmd))
+ continue;
+
+ if (cpu_has_pse) {
+ unsigned long pte_base;
+
+ if (IS_ALIGNED(addr, PMD_SIZE) &&
+ IS_ALIGNED(next, PMD_SIZE)) {
+ vmemmap_free_pages(pmd_page(*pmd),
+ get_order(PMD_SIZE));
+ spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
+ pmd_clear(pmd);
+ spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * We use 2M page, but we need to remove part of them,
+ * so split 2M page to 4K page.
+ */
+ pte_base = get_zeroed_page(GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOTRACK);

get_zeored_page() may fail. You should handle this error.


That means system is out of memory, I will trigger a bug_on.

+ split_large_page((pte_t *)pmd, addr, (pte_t *)pte_base);
+ __flush_tlb_all();
+
+ spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
+ pmd_populate_kernel(&init_mm, pmd, (pte_t *)pte_base);
+ spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
+ }
+
+ vmemmap_pte_remove(pmd, addr, next);
+ }
+
+ free_pmd_table(pud);
+ __flush_tlb_all();
+}
+
+static void vmemmap_pud_remove(pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
+{
+ unsigned long next;
+ pud_t *pud;
+
+ pud = pud_offset(pgd, addr);
+ for (; addr < end; addr = next, pud++) {
+ next = pud_addr_end(addr, end);
+ if (pud_none(*pud))
+ continue;
+
+ vmemmap_pmd_remove(pud, addr, next);
+ }
+
+ free_pud_table(pgd);
+ __flush_tlb_all();
+}
+
+void vmemmap_free(struct page *memmap, unsigned long nr_pages)
+{
+ unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)memmap;
+ unsigned long end = (unsigned long)(memmap + nr_pages);
+ unsigned long next;
+
+ for (; addr < end; addr = next) {
+ pgd_t *pgd = pgd_offset_k(addr);
+
+ next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
+ if (!pgd_present(*pgd))
+ continue;
+
+ vmemmap_pud_remove(pgd, addr, next);
+ sync_global_pgds(addr, next);

The parameter for sync_global_pgds() is [start, end], not
[start, end)


yes, thanks.

+ }
+}
+#endif
diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index fac95f2..3a16d68 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -613,12 +613,13 @@ static inline struct page *kmalloc_section_memmap(unsigned long pnum, int nid,
/* This will make the necessary allocations eventually. */
return sparse_mem_map_populate(pnum, nid);
}
-static void __kfree_section_memmap(struct page *memmap, unsigned long nr_pages)
+static void __kfree_section_memmap(struct page *page, unsigned long nr_pages)
Why do you change this line?


0k, it is no need to change.

{
- return; /* XXX: Not implemented yet */
+ vmemmap_free(page, nr_pages);
}
static void free_map_bootmem(struct page *page, unsigned long nr_pages)
{
+ vmemmap_free(page, nr_pages);
}
#else
static struct page *__kmalloc_section_memmap(unsigned long nr_pages)


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