From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
HORIGUCHI NAOYA <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>,
"Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>,
Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 7/8] hugetlb: add update_and_free_page_no_sleep for irq context
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:42:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YFis0mIbkTWaX7tM@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210319224209.150047-8-mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
On Fri 19-03-21 15:42:08, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> The locks acquired in free_huge_page are irq safe. However, in certain
> circumstances the routine update_and_free_page could sleep. Since
> free_huge_page can be called from any context, it can not sleep.
>
> Use a waitqueue to defer freeing of pages if the operation may sleep. A
> new routine update_and_free_page_no_sleep provides this functionality
> and is only called from free_huge_page.
>
> Note that any 'pages' sent to the workqueue for deferred freeing have
> already been removed from the hugetlb subsystem. What is actually
> deferred is returning those base pages to the low level allocator.
This patch or its alternative would need to be applied prior to patch 6
which makes the whole context IRQ safe.
Besides that the changelog doesn't really say anything about changed
user visible behavior change. Now if somebody decreases the GB huge pool
from the userspace the real effect on the freed up memory will be
postponed to some later time. That "later" is unpredictable as it
depends on WQ utilization. We definitely need some sort of
wait_for_inflight pages. One way to do that would be to have a dedicated
WQ and schedule a sync work item after the pool has been shrunk and wait
for that item.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-22 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-19 22:42 [RFC PATCH 0/8] make hugetlb put_page safe for all calling contexts Mike Kravetz
2021-03-19 22:42 ` [RFC PATCH 1/8] hugetlb: add per-hstate mutex to synchronize user adjustments Mike Kravetz
2021-03-22 13:59 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-22 16:57 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-23 7:48 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-19 22:42 ` [RFC PATCH 2/8] hugetlb: recompute min_count when dropping hugetlb_lock Mike Kravetz
2021-03-22 14:07 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-22 23:07 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-23 7:50 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-23 8:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-23 8:14 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-23 23:18 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-24 8:36 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-24 16:43 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-19 22:42 ` [RFC PATCH 3/8] hugetlb: create remove_hugetlb_page() to separate functionality Mike Kravetz
2021-03-22 14:15 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-22 17:01 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-19 22:42 ` [RFC PATCH 4/8] hugetlb: call update_and_free_page without hugetlb_lock Mike Kravetz
2021-03-22 14:19 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-19 22:42 ` [RFC PATCH 5/8] hugetlb: change free_pool_huge_page to remove_pool_huge_page Mike Kravetz
2021-03-22 14:31 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-22 23:28 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-23 7:57 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-24 1:03 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-24 8:40 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-24 16:38 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-24 16:50 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-19 22:42 ` [RFC PATCH 6/8] hugetlb: make free_huge_page irq safe Mike Kravetz
2021-03-21 19:55 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-22 13:36 ` [hugetlb] cd190f60f9: BUG:sleeping_function_called_from_invalid_context_at_mm/hugetlb.c kernel test robot
2021-03-22 13:36 ` kernel test robot
2021-03-22 13:36 ` [LTP] " kernel test robot
2021-03-22 14:35 ` [RFC PATCH 6/8] hugetlb: make free_huge_page irq safe Michal Hocko
2021-03-19 22:42 ` [RFC PATCH 7/8] hugetlb: add update_and_free_page_no_sleep for irq context Mike Kravetz
2021-03-20 1:18 ` Hillf Danton
2021-03-25 0:26 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-22 8:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-22 17:42 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-22 18:10 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-03-23 18:51 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-23 19:07 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-03-24 8:43 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-24 16:53 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-03-22 20:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-22 14:42 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2021-03-22 14:46 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-19 22:42 ` [RFC PATCH 8/8] hugetlb: track hugetlb pages allocated via cma_alloc Mike Kravetz
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