Patch series "background initramfs unpacking, and CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH", v3.
These two patches are independent, but better-together.
The second is a rather trivial patch that simply allows the developer to
change "/sbin/modprobe" to something else - e.g. the empty string, so
that all request_module() during early boot return -ENOENT early, without
even spawning a usermode helper, needlessly synchronizing with the
initramfs unpacking.
The first patch delegates decompressing the initramfs to a worker thread,
allowing do_initcalls() in main.c to proceed to the device_ and late_
initcalls without waiting for that decompression (and populating of
rootfs) to finish. Obviously, some of those later calls may rely on the
initramfs being available, so I've added synchronization points in the
firmware loader and usermodehelper paths - there might be other places
that would need this, but so far no one has been able to think of any
places I have missed.
There's not much to win if most of the functionality needed during boot is
only available as modules. But systems with a custom-made .config and
initramfs can boot faster, partly due to utilizing more than one cpu
earlier, partly by avoiding known-futile modprobe calls (which would still
trigger synchronization with the initramfs unpacking, thus eliminating
most of the first benefit).
This patch (of 2):
Most of the boot process doesn't actually need anything from the
initramfs, until of course PID1 is to be executed. So instead of doing
the decompressing and populating of the initramfs synchronously in
populate_rootfs() itself, push that off to a worker thread.
This is primarily motivated by an embedded ppc target, where unpacking
even the rather modest sized initramfs takes 0.6 seconds, which is long
enough that the external watchdog becomes unhappy that it doesn't get
attention soon enough. By doing the initramfs decompression in a worker
thread, we get to do the device_initcalls and hence start petting the
watchdog much sooner.
Normal desktops might benefit as well. On my mostly stock Ubuntu kernel,
my initramfs is a 26M xz-compressed blob, decompressing to around 126M.
That takes almost two seconds:
[ 0.201454] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
[ 1.976633] Freeing initrd memory: 29416K
Before this patch, these lines occur consecutively in dmesg. With this
patch, the timestamps on these two lines is roughly the same as above, but
with 172 lines inbetween - so more than one cpu has been kept busy doing
work that would otherwise only happen after the populate_rootfs()
finished.
Should one of the initcalls done after rootfs_initcall time (i.e., device_
and late_ initcalls) need something from the initramfs (say, a kernel
module or a firmware blob), it will simply wait for the initramfs
unpacking to be done before proceeding, which should in theory make this
completely safe.
But if some driver pokes around in the filesystem directly and not via one
of the official kernel interfaces (i.e. request_firmware*(),
call_usermodehelper*) that theory may not hold - also, I certainly might
have missed a spot when sprinkling wait_for_initramfs(). So there is an
escape hatch in the form of an initramfs_async= command line parameter.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210313212528.2956377-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210313212528.2956377-2-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When I was implementing a latency analyzer tool by using task->delays
and other things, I found an issue in delayacct. The issue is it should
clear the target's flag instead of current's in delayacct_blkio_end().
When I git blame delayacct, I found there're some similar issues we have
fixed in delayacct_blkio_end().
- Commit c96f5471ce ("delayacct: Account blkio completion on the
correct task") fixed the issue that it should account blkio
completion on the target task instead of current.
- Commit b512719f77 ("delayacct: fix crash in delayacct_blkio_end()
after delayacct init failure") fixed the issue that it should check
target task's delays instead of current task'.
It seems that delayacct_blkio_{begin, end} are error prone.
So I introduce a new paratmeter - the target task 'p' - to these
helpers. After that change, the callsite will specifilly set the right
task, which should make it less error prone.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210414083720.24083-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Snyder <joshs@netflix.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull more iomap updates from Darrick Wong:
"Remove the now unused 'io_private' field from struct iomap_ioend, for
a modest savings in memory allocation"
* tag 'iomap-5.13-merge-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux:
iomap: remove unused private field from ioend
Pull input updates from Dmitry Torokhov:
- three new touchscreen drivers: Hycon HY46XX, ILITEK Lego Series,
and MStar MSG2638
- a new driver for Azoteq IQS626A proximity and touch controller
- addition of Amazon Game Controller to the list of devices handled
by the xpad driver
- Elan touchscreen driver will avoid binding to devices described as
I2CHID compatible in ACPI tables
- various driver fixes
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (56 commits)
Input: xpad - add support for Amazon Game Controller
Input: ili210x - add missing negation for touch indication on ili210x
MAINTAINERS: repair reference in HYCON HY46XX TOUCHSCREEN SUPPORT
Input: add driver for the Hycon HY46XX touchpanel series
dt-bindings: touchscreen: Add HY46XX bindings
dt-bindings: Add Hycon Technology vendor prefix
Input: cyttsp - flag the device properly
Input: cyttsp - set abs params for ABS_MT_TOUCH_MAJOR
Input: cyttsp - drop the phys path
Input: cyttsp - reduce reset pulse timings
Input: cyttsp - error message on boot mode exit error
Input: apbps2 - remove useless variable
Input: mms114 - support MMS136
Input: mms114 - convert bindings to YAML and extend
Input: Add support for ILITEK Lego Series
dt-bindings: input: touchscreen: ilitek_ts_i2c: Add bindings
Input: add MStar MSG2638 touchscreen driver
dt-bindings: input/touchscreen: add bindings for msg2638
Input: silead - add workaround for x86 BIOS-es which bring the chip up in a stuck state
Input: elants_i2c - do not bind to i2c-hid compatible ACPI instantiated devices
...
The bitmap.h header is used in a lot of code around the kernel. Besides
that it includes kernel.h which sometimes makes a loop.
The problem here is many unneeded loops that make header hell
dependencies. For example, how may you move bitmap_zalloc() from C-file
to the header? Currently it's impossible. And bitmap.h here is only the
tip of an iceberg.
kerne.h is a dump of everything that even has nothing in common at all.
We may still have it, but in my new code I prefer to include only the
headers that I want to use, without the bulk of unneeded kernel code.
Break the loop by introducing align.h, including it in kernel.h and
bitmap.h followed by replacing kernel.h with limits.h.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210326170347.37441-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull more VFIO updates from Alex Williamson:
"A second small set of commits for this merge window, primarily to
unbreak some deletions from our uAPI header.
- Additional mdev sample driver cleanup (Dan Carpenter)
- Doc fix (Alyssa Ross)
- Unbreak uAPI from NVLink2 support removal (Alex Williamson)"
* tag 'vfio-v5.13-rc1pt2' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio:
docs: vfio: fix typo
vfio/pci: Revert nvlink removal uAPI breakage
vfio/mdev: remove unnecessary NULL check in mbochs_create()
Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:
- Support for the memtest= kernel command-line argument.
- Support for building the kernel with FORTIFY_SOURCE.
- Support for generic clockevent broadcasts.
- Support for the buildtar build target.
- Some build system cleanups to pass more LLVM-friendly arguments.
- Support for kprobes.
- A rearranged kernel memory map, the first part of supporting sv48
systems.
- Improvements to kexec, along with support for kdump and crash
kernels.
- An alternatives-based errata framework, along with support for
handling a pair of errata that manifest on some SiFive designs
(including the HiFive Unmatched).
- Support for XIP.
- A device tree for the Microchip PolarFire ICICLE SoC and associated
dev board.
... along with a bunch of cleanups. There are already a handful of fixes
on the list so there will likely be a part 2.
* tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.13-mw0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (45 commits)
RISC-V: Always define XIP_FIXUP
riscv: Remove 32b kernel mapping from page table dump
riscv: Fix 32b kernel build with CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL=y
RISC-V: Fix error code returned by riscv_hartid_to_cpuid()
RISC-V: Enable Microchip PolarFire ICICLE SoC
RISC-V: Initial DTS for Microchip ICICLE board
dt-bindings: riscv: microchip: Add YAML documentation for the PolarFire SoC
RISC-V: Add Microchip PolarFire SoC kconfig option
RISC-V: enable XIP
RISC-V: Add crash kernel support
RISC-V: Add kdump support
RISC-V: Improve init_resources()
RISC-V: Add kexec support
RISC-V: Add EM_RISCV to kexec UAPI header
riscv: vdso: fix and clean-up Makefile
riscv/mm: Use BUG_ON instead of if condition followed by BUG.
riscv/kprobe: fix kernel panic when invoking sys_read traced by kprobe
riscv: Set ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX if MMU
riscv: module: Create module allocations without exec permissions
riscv: bpf: Avoid breaking W^X
...
As of commit 966a967116 ("smp: Avoid using two cache lines for struct
call_single_data"), the smp code prefers 32-byte aligned call_single_data
objects for performance reasons, but the block layer includes an instance
of this structure in the main 'struct request' that is more senstive
to size than to performance here, see 4ccafe0320 ("block: unalign
call_single_data in struct request").
The result is a violation of the calling conventions that clang correctly
points out:
block/blk-mq.c:630:39: warning: passing 8-byte aligned argument to 32-byte aligned parameter 2 of 'smp_call_function_single_async' may result in an unaligned pointer access [-Walign-mismatch]
smp_call_function_single_async(cpu, &rq->csd);
It does seem that the usage of the call_single_data without cache line
alignment should still be allowed by the smp code, so just change the
function prototype so it accepts both, but leave the default alignment
unchanged for the other users. This seems better to me than adding
a local hack to shut up an otherwise correct warning in the caller.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210505211300.3174456-1-arnd@kernel.org
Provide separate helpers for guest enter vtime accounting (in addition to
the existing guest exit helpers), and move all vtime accounting helpers
to vtime.h where the existing #ifdef infrastructure can be leveraged to
better delineate the different types of accounting. This will also allow
future cleanups via deduplication of context tracking code.
Opportunstically delete the vtime_account_kernel() stub now that all
callers are wrapped with CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE=y.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210505002735.1684165-6-seanjc@google.com
Move the blob of external declarations (and their stubs) above the set of
inline definitions (and their stubs) for vtime accounting. This will
allow a future patch to bring in more inline definitions without also
having to shuffle large chunks of code.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210505002735.1684165-5-seanjc@google.com
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
"The remainder of the main mm/ queue.
143 patches.
Subsystems affected by this patch series (all mm): pagecache, hugetlb,
userfaultfd, vmscan, compaction, migration, cma, ksm, vmstat, mmap,
kconfig, util, memory-hotplug, zswap, zsmalloc, highmem, cleanups, and
kfence"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (143 commits)
kfence: use power-efficient work queue to run delayed work
kfence: maximize allocation wait timeout duration
kfence: await for allocation using wait_event
kfence: zero guard page after out-of-bounds access
mm/process_vm_access.c: remove duplicate include
mm/mempool: minor coding style tweaks
mm/highmem.c: fix coding style issue
btrfs: use memzero_page() instead of open coded kmap pattern
iov_iter: lift memzero_page() to highmem.h
mm/zsmalloc: use BUG_ON instead of if condition followed by BUG.
mm/zswap.c: switch from strlcpy to strscpy
arm64/Kconfig: introduce ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE
x86/Kconfig: introduce ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE
mm,memory_hotplug: add kernel boot option to enable memmap_on_memory
acpi,memhotplug: enable MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY when supported
mm,memory_hotplug: allocate memmap from the added memory range
mm,memory_hotplug: factor out adjusting present pages into adjust_present_page_count()
mm,memory_hotplug: relax fully spanned sections check
drivers/base/memory: introduce memory_block_{online,offline}
mm/memory_hotplug: remove broken locking of zone PCP structures during hot remove
...
Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin:
"A bunch of new drivers including vdpa support for block and
virtio-vdpa.
Beginning of vq kick (aka doorbell) mapping support.
Misc fixes"
* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (40 commits)
virtio_pci_modern: correct sparse tags for notify
virtio_pci_modern: __force cast the notify mapping
vDPA/ifcvf: get_config_size should return dev specific config size
vDPA/ifcvf: enable Intel C5000X-PL virtio-block for vDPA
vDPA/ifcvf: deduce VIRTIO device ID when probe
vdpa_sim_blk: add support for vdpa management tool
vdpa_sim_blk: handle VIRTIO_BLK_T_GET_ID
vdpa_sim_blk: implement ramdisk behaviour
vdpa: add vdpa simulator for block device
vhost/vdpa: Remove the restriction that only supports virtio-net devices
vhost/vdpa: use get_config_size callback in vhost_vdpa_config_validate()
vdpa: add get_config_size callback in vdpa_config_ops
vdpa_sim: cleanup kiovs in vdpasim_free()
vringh: add vringh_kiov_length() helper
vringh: implement vringh_kiov_advance()
vringh: explain more about cleaning riov and wiov
vringh: reset kiov 'consumed' field in __vringh_iov()
vringh: add 'iotlb_lock' to synchronize iotlb accesses
vdpa_sim: use iova module to allocate IOVA addresses
vDPA/ifcvf: deduce VIRTIO device ID from pdev ids
...
Pull pwm updates from Thierry Reding:
"This adds support for the PWM controller found on Toshiba Visconti
SoCs and converts a couple of drivers to the atomic API.
There's also a bunch of cleanups and minor fixes across the board"
* tag 'pwm/for-5.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/thierry.reding/linux-pwm: (35 commits)
pwm: Reword docs about pwm_apply_state()
pwm: atmel: Improve duty cycle calculation in .apply()
pwm: atmel: Fix duty cycle calculation in .get_state()
pwm: visconti: Add Toshiba Visconti SoC PWM support
dt-bindings: pwm: Add bindings for Toshiba Visconti PWM Controller
arm64: dts: rockchip: Remove clock-names from PWM nodes
ARM: dts: rockchip: Remove clock-names from PWM nodes
dt-bindings: pwm: rockchip: Add more compatible strings
dt-bindings: pwm: Convert pwm-rockchip.txt to YAML
pwm: mediatek: Remove unused function
pwm: pca9685: Improve runtime PM behavior
pwm: pca9685: Support hardware readout
pwm: pca9685: Switch to atomic API
pwm: lpss: Don't modify HW state in .remove callback
pwm: sti: Free resources only after pwmchip_remove()
pwm: sti: Don't modify HW state in .remove callback
pwm: lpc3200: Don't modify HW state in .remove callback
pwm: lpc18xx-sct: Free resources only after pwmchip_remove()
pwm: bcm-kona: Don't modify HW state in .remove callback
pwm: bcm2835: Free resources only after pwmchip_remove()
...
Pull thermal updates from Daniel Lezcano:
- Remove duplicate error message for the amlogic driver (Tang Bin)
- Fix spellos in comments for the tegra and sun8i (Bhaskar Chowdhury)
- Add the missing fifth node on the rcar_gen3 sensor (Niklas Söderlund)
- Remove duplicate include in ti-bandgap (Zhang Yunkai)
- Assign error code in the error path in the function
thermal_of_populate_bind_params() (Jia-Ju Bai)
- Fix spelling mistake in a comment 'disabed' -> 'disabled' (Colin Ian
King)
- Use the device name instead of auto-numbering for a better
identification of the cooling device (Daniel Lezcano)
- Improve a bit the division accuracy in the power allocator governor
(Jeson Gao)
- Enable the missing third sensor on msm8976 (Konrad Dybcio)
- Add QCom tsens driver co-maintainer (Thara Gopinath)
- Fix memory leak and use after free errors in the core code (Daniel
Lezcano)
- Add the MDM9607 compatible bindings (Konrad Dybcio)
- Fix trivial spello in the copyright name for Hisilicon (Hao Fang)
- Fix negative index array access when converting the frequency to
power in the energy model (Brian-sy Yang)
- Add support for Gen2 new PMIC support for Qcom SPMI (David Collins)
- Update maintainer file for CPU cooling device section (Lukasz Luba)
- Fix missing put_device on error in the Qcom tsens driver (Guangqing
Zhu)
- Add compatible DT binding for sm8350 (Robert Foss)
- Add support for the MDM9607's tsens driver (Konrad Dybcio)
- Remove duplicate error messages in thermal_mmio and the bcm2835
driver (Ruiqi Gong)
- Add the Thermal Temperature Cooling driver (Zhang Rui)
- Remove duplicate error messages in the Hisilicon sensor driver (Ye
Bin)
- Use the devm_platform_ioremap_resource_byname() function instead of a
couple of corresponding calls (dingsenjie)
- Sort the headers alphabetically in the ti-bandgap driver (Zhen Lei)
- Add missing property in the DT thermal sensor binding (Rafał Miłecki)
- Remove dead code in the ti-bandgap sensor driver (Lin Ruizhe)
- Convert the BRCM DT bindings to the yaml schema (Rafał Miłecki)
- Replace the thermal_notify_framework() call by a call to the
thermal_zone_device_update() function. Remove the function as well as
the corresponding documentation (Thara Gopinath)
- Add support for the ipq8064-tsens sensor along with a set of cleanups
and code preparation (Ansuel Smith)
- Add a lockless __thermal_cdev_update() function to improve the
locking scheme in the core code and governors (Lukasz Luba)
- Fix multiple cooling device notification changes (Lukasz Luba)
- Remove unneeded variable initialization (Colin Ian King)
* tag 'thermal-v5.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/thermal/linux: (55 commits)
thermal/drivers/mtk_thermal: Remove redundant initializations of several variables
thermal/core/power allocator: Use the lockless __thermal_cdev_update() function
thermal/core/fair share: Use the lockless __thermal_cdev_update() function
thermal/core/fair share: Lock the thermal zone while looping over instances
thermal/core/power_allocator: Update once cooling devices when temp is low
thermal/core/power_allocator: Maintain the device statistics from going stale
thermal/core: Create a helper __thermal_cdev_update() without a lock
dt-bindings: thermal: tsens: Document ipq8064 bindings
thermal/drivers/tsens: Add support for ipq8064-tsens
thermal/drivers/tsens: Drop unused define for msm8960
thermal/drivers/tsens: Replace custom 8960 apis with generic apis
thermal/drivers/tsens: Fix bug in sensor enable for msm8960
thermal/drivers/tsens: Use init_common for msm8960
thermal/drivers/tsens: Add VER_0 tsens version
thermal/drivers/tsens: Convert msm8960 to reg_field
thermal/drivers/tsens: Don't hardcode sensor slope
Documentation: driver-api: thermal: Remove thermal_notify_framework from documentation
thermal/core: Remove thermal_notify_framework
iwlwifi: mvm: tt: Replace thermal_notify_framework
dt-bindings: thermal: brcm,ns-thermal: Convert to the json-schema
...
Pull gpio updates from Bartosz Golaszewski:
- new driver for the Realtek Otto GPIO controller
- ACPI support for gpio-mpc8xxx
- edge event support for gpio-sch (+ Kconfig fixes)
- Kconfig improvements in gpio-ich
- fixes to older issues in gpio-mockup
- ACPI quirk for ignoring EC wakeups on Dell Venue 10 Pro 5055
- improve the GPIO aggregator code by using more generic interfaces
instead of reimplementing them in the driver
- convert the DT bindings for gpio-74x164 to yaml
- documentation improvements
- a slew of other minor fixes and improvements to GPIO drivers
* tag 'gpio-updates-for-v5.13-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brgl/linux: (34 commits)
dt-bindings: gpio: add YAML description for rockchip,gpio-bank
gpio: mxs: remove useless function
dt-bindings: gpio: fairchild,74hc595: Convert to json-schema
gpio: it87: remove unused code
gpio: 104-dio-48e: Fix coding style issues
gpio: mpc8xxx: Add ACPI support
gpio: ich: Switch to be dependent on LPC_ICH
gpio: sch: Drop MFD_CORE selection
gpio: sch: depends on LPC_SCH
gpiolib: acpi: Add quirk to ignore EC wakeups on Dell Venue 10 Pro 5055
gpio: sch: Hook into ACPI GPE handler to catch GPIO edge events
gpio: sch: Add edge event support
gpio: aggregator: Replace custom get_arg() with a generic next_arg()
lib/cmdline: Export next_arg() for being used in modules
gpio: omap: Use device_get_match_data() helper
gpio: Add Realtek Otto GPIO support
dt-bindings: gpio: Binding for Realtek Otto GPIO
docs: kernel-parameters: Add gpio_mockup_named_lines
docs: kernel-parameters: Move gpio-mockup for alphabetic order
lib: bitmap: provide devm_bitmap_alloc() and devm_bitmap_zalloc()
...
Physical memory hotadd has to allocate a memmap (struct page array) for
the newly added memory section. Currently, alloc_pages_node() is used
for those allocations.
This has some disadvantages:
a) an existing memory is consumed for that purpose
(eg: ~2MB per 128MB memory section on x86_64)
This can even lead to extreme cases where system goes OOM because
the physically hotplugged memory depletes the available memory before
it is onlined.
b) if the whole node is movable then we have off-node struct pages
which has performance drawbacks.
c) It might be there are no PMD_ALIGNED chunks so memmap array gets
populated with base pages.
This can be improved when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is enabled.
Vmemap page tables can map arbitrary memory. That means that we can
reserve a part of the physically hotadded memory to back vmemmap page
tables. This implementation uses the beginning of the hotplugged memory
for that purpose.
There are some non-obviously things to consider though.
Vmemmap pages are allocated/freed during the memory hotplug events
(add_memory_resource(), try_remove_memory()) when the memory is
added/removed. This means that the reserved physical range is not
online although it is used. The most obvious side effect is that
pfn_to_online_page() returns NULL for those pfns. The current design
expects that this should be OK as the hotplugged memory is considered a
garbage until it is onlined. For example hibernation wouldn't save the
content of those vmmemmaps into the image so it wouldn't be restored on
resume but this should be OK as there no real content to recover anyway
while metadata is reachable from other data structures (e.g. vmemmap
page tables).
The reserved space is therefore (de)initialized during the {on,off}line
events (mhp_{de}init_memmap_on_memory). That is done by extracting page
allocator independent initialization from the regular onlining path.
The primary reason to handle the reserved space outside of
{on,off}line_pages is to make each initialization specific to the
purpose rather than special case them in a single function.
As per above, the functions that are introduced are:
- mhp_init_memmap_on_memory:
Initializes vmemmap pages by calling move_pfn_range_to_zone(), calls
kasan_add_zero_shadow(), and onlines as many sections as vmemmap pages
fully span.
- mhp_deinit_memmap_on_memory:
Offlines as many sections as vmemmap pages fully span, removes the
range from zhe zone by remove_pfn_range_from_zone(), and calls
kasan_remove_zero_shadow() for the range.
The new function memory_block_online() calls mhp_init_memmap_on_memory()
before doing the actual online_pages(). Should online_pages() fail, we
clean up by calling mhp_deinit_memmap_on_memory(). Adjusting of
present_pages is done at the end once we know that online_pages()
succedeed.
On offline, memory_block_offline() needs to unaccount vmemmap pages from
present_pages() before calling offline_pages(). This is necessary because
offline_pages() tears down some structures based on the fact whether the
node or the zone become empty. If offline_pages() fails, we account back
vmemmap pages. If it succeeds, we call mhp_deinit_memmap_on_memory().
Hot-remove:
We need to be careful when removing memory, as adding and
removing memory needs to be done with the same granularity.
To check that this assumption is not violated, we check the
memory range we want to remove and if a) any memory block has
vmemmap pages and b) the range spans more than a single memory
block, we scream out loud and refuse to proceed.
If all is good and the range was using memmap on memory (aka vmemmap pages),
we construct an altmap structure so free_hugepage_table does the right
thing and calls vmem_altmap_free instead of free_pagetable.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210421102701.25051-5-osalvador@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To help with debugging the sluggishness caused by TLB miss/reload, we
introduce monotonic hugepage [direct mapped] split event counts since
system state: SYSTEM_RUNNING to be displayed as part of /proc/vmstat in
x86 servers
The lifetime split event information will be displayed at the bottom of
/proc/vmstat
....
swap_ra 0
swap_ra_hit 0
direct_map_level2_splits 94
direct_map_level3_splits 4
nr_unstable 0
....
One of the many lasting sources of direct hugepage splits is kernel
tracing (kprobes, tracepoints).
Note that the kernel's code segment [512 MB] points to the same physical
addresses that have been already mapped in the kernel's direct mapping
range.
Source : Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.rst
When we enable kernel tracing, the kernel has to modify
attributes/permissions of the text segment hugepages that are direct
mapped causing them to split.
Kernel's direct mapped hugepages do not coalesce back after split and
remain in place for the remainder of the lifetime.
An instance of direct page splits when we turn on dynamic kernel tracing
....
cat /proc/vmstat | grep -i direct_map_level
direct_map_level2_splits 784
direct_map_level3_splits 12
bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:raw_syscalls:sys_enter { @ [pid, comm] =
count(); }'
cat /proc/vmstat | grep -i
direct_map_level
direct_map_level2_splits 789
direct_map_level3_splits 12
....
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210218235744.1040634-1-saravanand@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Saravanan D <saravanand@fb.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pages containing buffer_heads that are in one of the per-CPU buffer_head
LRU caches will be pinned and thus cannot be migrated. This can prevent
CMA allocations from succeeding, which are often used on platforms with
co-processors (such as a DSP) that can only use physically contiguous
memory. It can also prevent memory hot-unplugging from succeeding,
which involves migrating at least MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE bytes of memory,
which ranges from 8 MiB to 1 GiB based on the architecture in use.
Correspondingly, invalidate the BH LRU caches before a migration starts
and stop any buffer_head from being cached in the LRU caches, until
migration has finished.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210319175127.886124-3-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Chris Goldsworthy <cgoldswo@codeaurora.org>
Reported-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Oliver Sang <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: John Dias <joaodias@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
