Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm/vmalloc: Switch to bulk allocator in __vmalloc_area_node()

[Uladzislau Rezki]

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 02:44:08PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > +	if (!page_order) {
> > +		area->nr_pages = alloc_pages_bulk_array_node(
> > +			gfp_mask, node, nr_small_pages, area->pages);
> > +	} else {
> > +		/*
> > +		 * Careful, we allocate and map page_order pages, but tracking is done
> > +		 * per PAGE_SIZE page so as to keep the vm_struct APIs independent of
> 
> Comments over 80 lines are completely unreadable, so please avoid them.
> 
That i can fix by separate patch.

> > +		 * the physical/mapped size.
> > +		 */
> > +		while (area->nr_pages < nr_small_pages) {
> > +			struct page *page;
> > +			int i;
> > +
> > +			/* Compound pages required for remap_vmalloc_page */
> > +			page = alloc_pages_node(node, gfp_mask | __GFP_COMP, page_order);
> > +			if (unlikely(!page))
> > +				break;
> >  
> > +			for (i = 0; i < (1U << page_order); i++)
> > +				area->pages[area->nr_pages + i] = page + i;
> >  
> > +			if (gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp_mask))
> > +				cond_resched();
> > +
> > +			area->nr_pages += 1U << page_order;
> > +		}
> 
> In fact splitting this whole high order allocation logic into a little
> helper would massivel benefit the function by ordering it more logical
> and reducing a level of indentation.
> 
I can put it into separate function. Actually i was thinking about it.

> > +	/*
> > +	 * If not enough pages were obtained to accomplish an
> > +	 * allocation request, free them via __vfree() if any.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (area->nr_pages != nr_small_pages) {
> > +		warn_alloc(gfp_mask, NULL,
> > +			"vmalloc size %lu allocation failure: "
> > +			"page order %u allocation failed",
> > +			area->nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE, page_order);
> > +		goto fail;
> > +	}
> 
> From reading __alloc_pages_bulk not allocating all pages is something
> that cn happen fairly easily.  Shouldn't we try to allocate the missing
> pages manually and/ore retry here?
> 
It is a good point. The bulk-allocator, as i see, only tries to access
to pcp-list and falls-back to a single allocator once it fails, so the
array may not be fully populated.

In that case probably it makes sense to manually populate it using
single page allocator.

Mel, could you please also comment on it?

> > +
> > +	if (vmap_pages_range(addr, addr + size, prot, area->pages, page_shift) < 0) {
> 
> Another pointlessly long line.
Yep. Will fix it by a separate patch. Actually the checkpatch.pl also
complains on splitting the text like below:

    warn_alloc(gfp_mask, NULL,
        "vmalloc size %lu allocation failure: "
        "page order %u allocation failed",
        area->nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE, page_order);


Thanks for the comments!

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Vlad Rezki