[PATCH v3 05/13] powerpc: add pte_free_defer() for pgtables sharing page

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Wed Jul 12 2023 - 00:36:14 EST


Add powerpc-specific pte_free_defer(), to free table page via call_rcu().
pte_free_defer() will be called inside khugepaged's retract_page_tables()
loop, where allocating extra memory cannot be relied upon. This precedes
the generic version to avoid build breakage from incompatible pgtable_t.

This is awkward because the struct page contains only one rcu_head, but
that page may be shared between PTE_FRAG_NR pagetables, each wanting to
use the rcu_head at the same time. But powerpc never reuses a fragment
once it has been freed: so mark the page Active in pte_free_defer(),
before calling pte_fragment_free() directly; and there call_rcu() to
pte_free_now() when last fragment is freed and the page is PageActive.

Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 4 ++++
arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgalloc.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgalloc.h
index 3360cad78ace..3a971e2a8c73 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgalloc.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgalloc.h
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ static inline void pte_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgtable_t ptepage)
pte_fragment_free((unsigned long *)ptepage, 0);
}

+/* arch use pte_free_defer() implementation in arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c */
+#define pte_free_defer pte_free_defer
+void pte_free_defer(struct mm_struct *mm, pgtable_t pgtable);
+
/*
* Functions that deal with pagetables that could be at any level of
* the table need to be passed an "index_size" so they know how to
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c
index 20652daa1d7e..0c6b68130025 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c
@@ -106,6 +106,15 @@ pte_t *pte_fragment_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, int kernel)
return __alloc_for_ptecache(mm, kernel);
}

+static void pte_free_now(struct rcu_head *head)
+{
+ struct page *page;
+
+ page = container_of(head, struct page, rcu_head);
+ pgtable_pte_page_dtor(page);
+ __free_page(page);
+}
+
void pte_fragment_free(unsigned long *table, int kernel)
{
struct page *page = virt_to_page(table);
@@ -115,8 +124,22 @@ void pte_fragment_free(unsigned long *table, int kernel)

BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->pt_frag_refcount) <= 0);
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&page->pt_frag_refcount)) {
- if (!kernel)
- pgtable_pte_page_dtor(page);
- __free_page(page);
+ if (kernel)
+ __free_page(page);
+ else if (TestClearPageActive(page))
+ call_rcu(&page->rcu_head, pte_free_now);
+ else
+ pte_free_now(&page->rcu_head);
}
}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+void pte_free_defer(struct mm_struct *mm, pgtable_t pgtable)
+{
+ struct page *page;
+
+ page = virt_to_page(pgtable);
+ SetPageActive(page);
+ pte_fragment_free((unsigned long *)pgtable, 0);
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
--
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