[PATCH] x86/vmemmap: Handle unpopulated sub-pmd ranges

From: Oscar Salvador
Date: Wed Jan 27 2021 - 06:28:05 EST


When the size of a struct page is not multiple of 2MB, sections do
not span a PMD anymore and so when populating them some parts of the
PMD will remain unused.
Because of this, PMDs will be left behind when depopulating sections
since remove_pmd_table() thinks that those unused parts are still in
use.

Fix this by marking the unused parts with PAGE_INUSE, so memchr_inv() will
do the right thing and will let us free the PMD when the last user of it
is gone.

This patch is based on a similar patch by David Hildenbrand:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200722094558.9828-9-david@xxxxxxxxxx/
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200722094558.9828-10-david@xxxxxxxxxx/

Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 74 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index b5a3fa4033d3..9b6d45ea353b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -873,6 +873,71 @@ int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,

#define PAGE_INUSE 0xFD

+/*
+ * The unused vmemmap range, which was not yet memset(PAGE_INUSE) ranges
+ * from unused_pmd_start to next PMD_SIZE boundary.
+ */
+static unsigned long unused_pmd_start __meminitdata;
+
+static void __meminit vmemmap_flush_unused_pmd(void)
+{
+ if (!unused_pmd_start)
+ return;
+ /*
+ * Clears (unused_pmd_start, PMD_END]
+ */
+ memset((void *)unused_pmd_start, PAGE_INUSE,
+ ALIGN(unused_pmd_start, PMD_SIZE) - unused_pmd_start);
+ unused_pmd_start = 0;
+}
+
+/* Returns true if the PMD is completely unused and thus it can be freed */
+static bool __meminit vmemmap_unuse_sub_pmd(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
+{
+ unsigned long start = ALIGN_DOWN(addr, PMD_SIZE);
+
+ vmemmap_flush_unused_pmd();
+ memset((void *)addr, PAGE_INUSE, end - addr);
+
+ return !memchr_inv((void *)start, PAGE_INUSE, PMD_SIZE);
+}
+
+static void __meminit vmemmap_use_sub_pmd(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
+{
+ /*
+ * We only optimize if the new used range directly follows the
+ * previously unused range (esp., when populating consecutive sections).
+ */
+ if (unused_pmd_start == start) {
+ if (likely(IS_ALIGNED(end, PMD_SIZE)))
+ unused_pmd_start = 0;
+ else
+ unused_pmd_start = end;
+ return;
+ }
+
+ vmemmap_flush_unused_pmd();
+}
+
+static void __meminit vmemmap_use_new_sub_pmd(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
+{
+ vmemmap_flush_unused_pmd();
+
+ /*
+ * Mark the unused parts of the new memmap range
+ */
+ if (!IS_ALIGNED(start, PMD_SIZE))
+ memset((void *)start, PAGE_INUSE,
+ start - ALIGN_DOWN(start, PMD_SIZE));
+ /*
+ * We want to avoid memset(PAGE_UNUSED) when populating the vmemmap of
+ * consecutive sections. Remember for the last added PMD the last
+ * unused range in the populated PMD.
+ */
+ if (!IS_ALIGNED(end, PMD_SIZE))
+ unused_pmd_start = end;
+}
+
static void __meminit free_pagetable(struct page *page, int order)
{
unsigned long magic;
@@ -1034,7 +1099,6 @@ remove_pmd_table(pmd_t *pmd_start, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
unsigned long next, pages = 0;
pte_t *pte_base;
pmd_t *pmd;
- void *page_addr;

pmd = pmd_start + pmd_index(addr);
for (; addr < end; addr = next, pmd++) {
@@ -1055,12 +1119,10 @@ remove_pmd_table(pmd_t *pmd_start, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
pages++;
} else {
- /* If here, we are freeing vmemmap pages. */
- memset((void *)addr, PAGE_INUSE, next - addr);
-
- page_addr = page_address(pmd_page(*pmd));
- if (!memchr_inv(page_addr, PAGE_INUSE,
- PMD_SIZE)) {
+ /*
+ * Free the PMD if the whole range is unused.
+ */
+ if (vmemmap_unuse_sub_pmd(addr, next)) {
free_hugepage_table(pmd_page(*pmd),
altmap);

@@ -1538,11 +1600,16 @@ static int __meminit vmemmap_populate_hugepages(unsigned long start,

addr_end = addr + PMD_SIZE;
p_end = p + PMD_SIZE;
+
+ if (!IS_ALIGNED(addr, PMD_SIZE) ||
+ !IS_ALIGNED(next, PMD_SIZE))
+ vmemmap_use_new_sub_pmd(addr, next);
continue;
} else if (altmap)
return -ENOMEM; /* no fallback */
} else if (pmd_large(*pmd)) {
vmemmap_verify((pte_t *)pmd, node, addr, next);
+ vmemmap_use_sub_pmd(addr, next);
continue;
}
if (vmemmap_populate_basepages(addr, next, node, NULL))
--
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