From: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> commit 3d060856adfc59afb9d029c233141334cfaba418 upstream. Initializing struct pages is a long task and keeping interrupts disabled for the duration of this operation introduces a number of problems. 1. jiffies are not updated for long period of time, and thus incorrect time is reported. See proposed solution and discussion here: lkml/20200311123848.118638-1-shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com 2. It prevents farther improving deferred page initialization by allowing intra-node multi-threading. We are keeping interrupts disabled to solve a rather theoretical problem that was never observed in real world (See 3a2d7fa8a3d5). Let's keep interrupts enabled. In case we ever encounter a scenario where an interrupt thread wants to allocate large amount of memory this early in boot we can deal with that by growing zone (see deferred_grow_zone()) by the needed amount before starting deferred_init_memmap() threads. Before: [ 1.232459] node 0 initialised, 12058412 pages in 1ms After: [ 1.632580] node 0 initialised, 12051227 pages in 436ms Fixes: 3a2d7fa8a3d5 ("mm: disable interrupts while initializing deferred pages") Reported-by: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Cc: Yiqian Wei <yiwei@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.17+] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200403140952.17177-3-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> --- include/linux/mmzone.h | 2 ++ mm/page_alloc.c | 19 +++++++------------ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 9c6181b78bfd..51f74519b0e8 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -642,6 +642,8 @@ typedef struct pglist_data { /* * Must be held any time you expect node_start_pfn, node_present_pages * or node_spanned_pages stay constant. + * Also synchronizes pgdat->first_deferred_pfn during deferred page + * init. * * pgdat_resize_lock() and pgdat_resize_unlock() are provided to * manipulate node_size_lock without checking for CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 0ee5dc03f673..dcb6b33653c7 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1627,6 +1627,13 @@ static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data) BUG_ON(pgdat->first_deferred_pfn > pgdat_end_pfn(pgdat)); pgdat->first_deferred_pfn = ULONG_MAX; + /* + * Once we unlock here, the zone cannot be grown anymore, thus if an + * interrupt thread must allocate this early in boot, zone must be + * pre-grown prior to start of deferred page initialization. + */ + pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags); + /* Only the highest zone is deferred so find it */ for (zid = 0; zid < MAX_NR_ZONES; zid++) { zone = pgdat->node_zones + zid; @@ -1673,7 +1680,6 @@ static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data) nr_free += atomic64_read(&args.nr_pages); } - pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags); /* Sanity check that the next zone really is unpopulated */ WARN_ON(++zid < MAX_NR_ZONES && populated_zone(++zone)); @@ -1722,17 +1728,6 @@ deferred_grow_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order) pgdat_resize_lock(pgdat, &flags); - /* - * If deferred pages have been initialized while we were waiting for - * the lock, return true, as the zone was grown. The caller will retry - * this zone. We won't return to this function since the caller also - * has this static branch. - */ - if (!static_branch_unlikely(&deferred_pages)) { - pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags); - return true; - } - /* * If someone grew this zone while we were waiting for spinlock, return * true, as there might be enough pages already. -- 2.25.1