Re: [PATCH v9 4/4] mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: add hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap sysctl

[Muchun Song]

On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 08:36:00PM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> On 5/4/22 19:35, Muchun Song wrote:
> > On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 03:12:39PM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> >> On 4/29/22 05:18, Muchun Song wrote:
> >>> +static void vmemmap_optimize_mode_switch(enum vmemmap_optimize_mode to)
> >>> +{
> >>> +	if (vmemmap_optimize_mode == to)
> >>> +		return;
> >>> +
> >>> +	if (to == VMEMMAP_OPTIMIZE_OFF)
> >>> +		static_branch_dec(&hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_key);
> >>> +	else
> >>> +		static_branch_inc(&hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_key);
> >>> +	vmemmap_optimize_mode = to;
> >>> +}
> >>> +
> >>>  static int __init hugetlb_vmemmap_early_param(char *buf)
> >>>  {
> >>>  	bool enable;
> >>> +	enum vmemmap_optimize_mode mode;
> >>>  
> >>>  	if (kstrtobool(buf, &enable))
> >>>  		return -EINVAL;
> >>>  
> >>> -	if (enable)
> >>> -		static_branch_enable(&hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_key);
> >>> -	else
> >>> -		static_branch_disable(&hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_key);
> >>> +	mode = enable ? VMEMMAP_OPTIMIZE_ON : VMEMMAP_OPTIMIZE_OFF;
> >>> +	vmemmap_optimize_mode_switch(mode);
> >>>  
> >>>  	return 0;
> >>>  }
> >>> @@ -60,6 +80,8 @@ int hugetlb_vmemmap_alloc(struct hstate *h, struct page *head)
> >>>  	vmemmap_end	= vmemmap_addr + (vmemmap_pages << PAGE_SHIFT);
> >>>  	vmemmap_reuse	= vmemmap_addr - PAGE_SIZE;
> >>>  
> >>> +	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!vmemmap_pages, head);
> >>> +
> >>>  	/*
> >>>  	 * The pages which the vmemmap virtual address range [@vmemmap_addr,
> >>>  	 * @vmemmap_end) are mapped to are freed to the buddy allocator, and
> >>> @@ -69,8 +91,10 @@ int hugetlb_vmemmap_alloc(struct hstate *h, struct page *head)
> >>>  	 */
> >>>  	ret = vmemmap_remap_alloc(vmemmap_addr, vmemmap_end, vmemmap_reuse,
> >>>  				  GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_THISNODE);
> >>> -	if (!ret)
> >>> +	if (!ret) {
> >>>  		ClearHPageVmemmapOptimized(head);
> >>> +		static_branch_dec(&hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_key);
> >>> +	}
> >>>  
> >>>  	return ret;
> >>>  }
> >>> @@ -84,6 +108,8 @@ void hugetlb_vmemmap_free(struct hstate *h, struct page *head)
> >>>  	if (!vmemmap_pages)
> >>>  		return;
> >>>  
> >>> +	static_branch_inc(&hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_key);
> >>
> >> Can you explain the reasoning behind doing the static_branch_inc here in free,
> >> and static_branch_dec in alloc?
> >> IIUC, they may not be absolutely necessary but you could use the count to
> >> know how many optimized pages are in use?  Or, I may just be missing
> >> something.
> >>
> > 
> > Partly right. One 'count' is not enough. I have implemented this with similar
> > approach in v6 [1]. Except the 'count', we also need a lock to do synchronization.
> > However, both count and synchronization are included in static_key_inc/dec
> > infrastructure. It is simpler to use static_key_inc/dec directly, right? 
> > 
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220330153745.20465-5-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > 
> 
> Sorry, but I am a little confused.
> 
> vmemmap_optimize_mode_switch will static_key_inc to enable and static_key_dec
> to disable.  In addition each time we optimize (allocate) a hugetlb page after
> enabling we will static_key_inc.
> 
> Suppose we have 1 hugetlb page optimized.  So static count == 2 IIUC.
> The someone turns off optimization via sysctl.  static count == 1 ???

Definitely right.

> If we then add another hugetlb page via nr_hugepages it seems that it
> would be optimized as static count == 1.  Is that correct?  Do we need

I'm wrong.

> to free all hugetlb pages with optimization before we can add new pages
> without optimization?
>

My bad. I think the following code would fix this.

Thanks for your review carefully.

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
index 5820a681a724..997e192aeed7 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ void hugetlb_vmemmap_free(struct hstate *h, struct page *head)
        unsigned long vmemmap_end, vmemmap_reuse, vmemmap_pages;

        vmemmap_pages = hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_pages(h);
-       if (!vmemmap_pages)
+       if (!vmemmap_pages || READ_ONCE(vmemmap_optimize_mode) == VMEMMAP_OPTIMIZE_OFF)
                return;

        static_branch_inc(&hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_key);