From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@techadventures.net>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: pavel.tatashin@microsoft.com, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org,
dave.hansen@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
mingo@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, jglisse@redhat.com,
rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com,
Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] mm: Defer ZONE_DEVICE page initialization to the point where we init pgmap
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 17:41:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <27f1265b-a8b4-b203-077b-468d1e823cc8@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180927145035.GA21373@techadventures.net>
On 27/09/2018 16:50, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 03:13:29PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> On Thu 27-09-18 14:25:37, Oscar Salvador wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 01:09:26PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>>>> So there were a few things I wasn't sure we could pull outside of the
>>>>> hotplug lock. One specific example is the bits related to resizing the pgdat
>>>>> and zone. I wanted to avoid pulling those bits outside of the hotplug lock.
>>>>
>>>> Why would that be a problem. There are dedicated locks for resizing.
>>>
>>> True is that move_pfn_range_to_zone() manages the locks for pgdat/zone resizing,
>>> but it also takes care of calling init_currently_empty_zone() in case the zone is empty.
>>> Could not that be a problem if we take move_pfn_range_to_zone() out of the lock?
>>
>> I would have to double check but is the hotplug lock really serializing
>> access to the state initialized by init_currently_empty_zone? E.g.
>> zone_start_pfn is a nice example of a state that is used outside of the
>> lock. zone's free lists are similar. So do we really need the hoptlug
>> lock? And more broadly, what does the hotplug lock is supposed to
>> serialize in general. A proper documentation would surely help to answer
>> these questions. There is way too much of "do not touch this code and
>> just make my particular hack" mindset which made the whole memory
>> hotplug a giant pile of mess. We really should start with some proper
>> engineering here finally.
>
> CC David
>
> David has been looking into this lately, he even has updated memory-hotplug.txt
> with some more documentation about the locking aspect [1].
> And with this change [2], the hotplug lock has been moved
> to the online/offline_pages.
>
> From what I see (I might be wrong), the hotplug lock is there
> to serialize the online/offline operations.
mem_hotplug_lock is especially relevant for users of
get_online_mems/put_online_mems. Whatever affects them, you can't move
out of the lock.
Everything else is theoretically serialized via device_hotplug_lock now.
>
> In online_pages, we do (among other things):
>
> a) initialize the zone and its pages, and link them to the zone
> b) re-adjust zone/pgdat nr of pages (present, spanned, managed)
> b) check if the node changes in regard of N_MEMORY, N_HIGH_MEMORY or N_NORMAL_MEMORY.
> c) fire notifiers
> d) rebuild the zonelists in case we got a new zone
> e) online memory sections and free the pages to the buddy allocator
> f) wake up kswapd/kcompactd in case we got a new node
>
> while in offline_pages we do the opposite.
>
> Hotplug lock here serializes the operations as a whole, online and offline memory,
> so they do not step on each other's feet.
>
> Having said that, we might be able to move some of those operations out of the hotplug lock.
> The device_hotplug_lock coming from every memblock (which is taken in device_online/device_offline) should protect
> us against some operations being made on the same memblock (e.g: touching the same pages).
Yes, very right.
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
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Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-25 20:18 [PATCH v5 0/4] Address issues slowing persistent memory initialization Alexander Duyck
2018-09-25 20:19 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] mm: Remove now defunct NO_BOOTMEM from depends list for deferred init Alexander Duyck
2018-09-25 21:05 ` Mike Rapoport
2018-09-25 20:20 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] mm: Provide kernel parameter to allow disabling page init poisoning Alexander Duyck
2018-09-25 20:26 ` Dave Hansen
2018-09-25 20:38 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-09-25 22:14 ` Dave Hansen
2018-09-25 22:27 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-09-26 7:38 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-26 15:24 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-09-26 15:39 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-26 15:41 ` Dave Hansen
2018-09-26 16:18 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-09-26 15:36 ` Dave Hansen
2018-09-26 22:36 ` Andrew Morton
2018-09-25 20:20 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] mm: Create non-atomic version of SetPageReserved for init use Alexander Duyck
2018-09-25 20:21 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] mm: Defer ZONE_DEVICE page initialization to the point where we init pgmap Alexander Duyck
2018-09-26 7:55 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-26 18:25 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-09-26 18:52 ` Dan Williams
2018-09-27 11:20 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-27 11:09 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-27 12:25 ` Oscar Salvador
2018-09-27 13:13 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-27 14:50 ` Oscar Salvador
2018-09-27 15:41 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2018-09-28 8:12 ` Oscar Salvador
2018-09-28 8:44 ` Oscar Salvador
2018-09-28 15:50 ` Dan Williams
2018-09-27 12:32 ` Oscar Salvador
2018-10-08 21:01 ` Dan Williams
2018-10-08 21:38 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-10-08 22:00 ` Dan Williams
2018-10-08 22:07 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-10-08 22:36 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-10-08 22:59 ` Dan Williams
2018-10-08 23:34 ` [mm PATCH] memremap: Fix reference count for pgmap in devm_memremap_pages Alexander Duyck
2018-10-09 0:20 ` Dan Williams
2018-10-09 17:00 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] mm: Defer ZONE_DEVICE page initialization to the point where we init pgmap Yi Zhang
2018-10-09 18:04 ` Dan Williams
2018-10-09 20:26 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-10-09 21:19 ` Dan Williams
2018-10-10 12:52 ` Yi Zhang
2018-10-10 15:27 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-10-11 8:17 ` Yi Zhang
2018-10-10 9:58 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-10 16:39 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-10-10 17:24 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-10 17:39 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-10-10 17:53 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-10 18:13 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-10-10 18:52 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-11 8:55 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-11 17:38 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-10-11 18:22 ` Dan Williams
2018-10-17 7:52 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-17 15:02 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-10-29 14:12 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-29 15:59 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-10-29 16:35 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-29 17:01 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-10-29 17:24 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-29 17:34 ` Dan Williams
2018-10-29 17:45 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-29 17:42 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-10-29 18:18 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-29 19:59 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-10-30 6:29 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-30 6:55 ` Dan Williams
2018-10-30 8:17 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-30 15:57 ` Dan Williams
2018-10-30 8:05 ` Oscar Salvador
2018-10-29 15:49 ` Dan Williams
2018-10-29 15:56 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-10 18:18 ` Dan Williams
2018-10-11 8:39 ` Yi Zhang
2018-10-11 15:38 ` Alexander Duyck
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