[PATCH v2 1/1] mm: page_alloc: skip over regions of invalid pfns on UMA

From: Eugeniu Rosca
Date: Sun Jan 21 2018 - 09:50:29 EST


As a result of bisecting the v4.10..v4.11 commit range, it was
determined that commits [1] and [2] are both responsible of a ~140ms
early startup improvement on Rcar-H3-ES20 arm64 platform.

Since Rcar Gen3 family is not NUMA, we don't define CONFIG_NUMA in the
rcar3 defconfig (which also reduces KNL binary image by ~64KB), but this
is how the boot time improvement is lost.

This patch makes optimization [2] available on UMA systems which
provide support for CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK.

Testing this change on Rcar H3-ULCB using v4.15-rc8 KNL, vanilla arm64
defconfig + NUMA=n, a speed-up of ~140ms (from [3] to [4]) is observed
in the execution of memmap_init_zone().

No boot time improvement is sensed on Apollo Lake SoC.

[1] commit 0f84832fb8f9 ("arm64: defconfig: Enable NUMA and NUMA_BALANCING")
[2] commit b92df1de5d28 ("mm: page_alloc: skip over regions of invalid pfns where possible")

[3] 179ms spent in memmap_init_zone() on H3ULCB w/o this patch (NUMA=n)
[ 2.408716] On node 0 totalpages: 1015808
[ 2.408720] DMA zone: 3584 pages used for memmap
[ 2.408723] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 2.408726] DMA zone: 229376 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 2.408729] > memmap_init_zone
[ 2.429506] < memmap_init_zone
[ 2.429512] Normal zone: 12288 pages used for memmap
[ 2.429514] Normal zone: 786432 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 2.429516] > memmap_init_zone
[ 2.587980] < memmap_init_zone
[ 2.588013] psci: probing for conduit method from DT.

[4] 38ms spent in memmap_init_zone() on H3ULCB with this patch (NUMA=n)
[ 2.415661] On node 0 totalpages: 1015808
[ 2.415664] DMA zone: 3584 pages used for memmap
[ 2.415667] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 2.415670] DMA zone: 229376 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 2.415673] > memmap_init_zone
[ 2.424245] < memmap_init_zone
[ 2.424250] Normal zone: 12288 pages used for memmap
[ 2.424253] Normal zone: 786432 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 2.424256] > memmap_init_zone
[ 2.453984] < memmap_init_zone
[ 2.454016] psci: probing for conduit method from DT.

Signed-off-by: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/memblock.h | 3 ++-
mm/memblock.c | 2 ++
mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/memblock.h b/include/linux/memblock.h
index 7ed0f778..876c0a33 100644
--- a/include/linux/memblock.h
+++ b/include/linux/memblock.h
@@ -182,12 +182,13 @@ static inline bool memblock_is_nomap(struct memblock_region *m)
return m->flags & MEMBLOCK_NOMAP;
}

+unsigned long memblock_next_valid_pfn(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long max_pfn);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
int memblock_search_pfn_nid(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long *start_pfn,
unsigned long *end_pfn);
void __next_mem_pfn_range(int *idx, int nid, unsigned long *out_start_pfn,
unsigned long *out_end_pfn, int *out_nid);
-unsigned long memblock_next_valid_pfn(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long max_pfn);

/**
* for_each_mem_pfn_range - early memory pfn range iterator
diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
index 46aacdfa..ad48cf20 100644
--- a/mm/memblock.c
+++ b/mm/memblock.c
@@ -1100,6 +1100,7 @@ void __init_memblock __next_mem_pfn_range(int *idx, int nid,
if (out_nid)
*out_nid = r->nid;
}
+#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP */

unsigned long __init_memblock memblock_next_valid_pfn(unsigned long pfn,
unsigned long max_pfn)
@@ -1129,6 +1130,7 @@ unsigned long __init_memblock memblock_next_valid_pfn(unsigned long pfn,
return min(PHYS_PFN(type->regions[right].base), max_pfn);
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
/**
* memblock_set_node - set node ID on memblock regions
* @base: base of area to set node ID for
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 76c9688b..9ad47f46 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5344,7 +5344,7 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
goto not_early;

if (!early_pfn_valid(pfn)) {
-#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK
/*
* Skip to the pfn preceding the next valid one (or
* end_pfn), such that we hit a valid pfn (or end_pfn)
--
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