From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] mm, page_alloc: simplify zonelist initialization
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:02:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170714130242.GQ2618@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170714124645.i3duhuie6cczlybr@suse.de>
On Fri 14-07-17 13:46:46, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:00:03AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> >
> > build_zonelists gradually builds zonelists from the nearest to the most
> > distant node. As we do not know how many populated zones we will have in
> > each node we rely on the _zoneref to terminate initialized part of the
> > zonelist by a NULL zone. While this is functionally correct it is quite
> > suboptimal because we cannot allow updaters to race with zonelists
> > users because they could see an empty zonelist and fail the allocation
> > or hit the OOM killer in the worst case.
> >
> > We can do much better, though. We can store the node ordering into an
> > already existing node_order array and then give this array to
> > build_zonelists_in_node_order and do the whole initialization at once.
> > zonelists consumers still might see halfway initialized state but that
> > should be much more tolerateable because the list will not be empty and
> > they would either see some zone twice or skip over some zone(s) in the
> > worst case which shouldn't lead to immediate failures.
> >
> > This patch alone doesn't introduce any functional change yet, though, it
> > is merely a preparatory work for later changes.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> > ---
> > mm/page_alloc.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++------------------------
> > 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > index 00e117922b3f..78bd62418380 100644
> > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > @@ -4913,17 +4913,20 @@ static int find_next_best_node(int node, nodemask_t *used_node_mask)
> > * This results in maximum locality--normal zone overflows into local
> > * DMA zone, if any--but risks exhausting DMA zone.
> > */
> > -static void build_zonelists_in_node_order(pg_data_t *pgdat, int node)
> > +static void build_zonelists_in_node_order(pg_data_t *pgdat, int *node_order)
> > {
> > - int j;
> > struct zonelist *zonelist;
> > + int i, zoneref_idx = 0;
> >
> > zonelist = &pgdat->node_zonelists[ZONELIST_FALLBACK];
> > - for (j = 0; zonelist->_zonerefs[j].zone != NULL; j++)
> > - ;
> > - j = build_zonelists_node(NODE_DATA(node), zonelist, j);
> > - zonelist->_zonerefs[j].zone = NULL;
> > - zonelist->_zonerefs[j].zone_idx = 0;
> > +
> > + for (i = 0; i < MAX_NUMNODES; i++) {
> > + pg_data_t *node = NODE_DATA(node_order[i]);
> > +
> > + zoneref_idx = build_zonelists_node(node, zonelist, zoneref_idx);
> > + }
>
> The naming here is weird to say the least and makes this a lot more
> confusing than it needs to be. Primarily, it's because the zoneref_idx
> parameter gets renamed to nr_zones in build_zonelists_node where it's
> nothing to do with the number of zones at all.
you are right. I just wanted to get rid of `j' and didn't realize
nr_zones would fit much better.
> It also iterates for longer than it needs to. MAX_NUMNODES can be a
> large value of mostly empty nodes but it happily goes through them
> anyway. Pass zoneref_idx in as a pointer that is updated by the function
> and use the return value to break the loop when an empty node is
> encountered?
>
> > + zonelist->_zonerefs[zoneref_idx].zone = NULL;
> > + zonelist->_zonerefs[zoneref_idx].zone_idx = 0;
> > }
> >
>
> It *might* be safer given the next patch to zero out the remainder of
> the _zonerefs to that there is no combination of node add/remove that has
> an iterator working with a semi-valid _zoneref which is beyond the last
> correct value. It *should* be safe as the very last entry will always
> be null but if you don't zero it out, it is possible for iterators to be
> working beyond the "end" of the zonelist for a short window.
yes that is true but there will always be terminating NULL zone and I
found that acceptable. It is basically the same thing as accessing an
empty zone or a zone twice. Or do you think this is absolutely necessary
to handle?
> Otherwise think it's ok including my stupid comment about node_order
> stack usage.
What do you think about this on top?
---
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 49bade7ff049..3b98524c04ec 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -4913,20 +4913,21 @@ static int find_next_best_node(int node, nodemask_t *used_node_mask)
* This results in maximum locality--normal zone overflows into local
* DMA zone, if any--but risks exhausting DMA zone.
*/
-static void build_zonelists_in_node_order(pg_data_t *pgdat, int *node_order)
+static void build_zonelists_in_node_order(pg_data_t *pgdat, int *node_order,
+ unsigned nr_nodes)
{
struct zonelist *zonelist;
- int i, zoneref_idx = 0;
+ int i, nr_zones = 0;
zonelist = &pgdat->node_zonelists[ZONELIST_FALLBACK];
- for (i = 0; i < MAX_NUMNODES; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_nodes; i++) {
pg_data_t *node = NODE_DATA(node_order[i]);
- zoneref_idx = build_zonelists_node(node, zonelist, zoneref_idx);
+ nr_zones = build_zonelists_node(node, zonelist, nr_zones);
}
- zonelist->_zonerefs[zoneref_idx].zone = NULL;
- zonelist->_zonerefs[zoneref_idx].zone_idx = 0;
+ zonelist->_zonerefs[nr_zones].zone = NULL;
+ zonelist->_zonerefs[nr_zones].zone_idx = 0;
}
/*
@@ -4935,12 +4936,12 @@ static void build_zonelists_in_node_order(pg_data_t *pgdat, int *node_order)
static void build_thisnode_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
{
struct zonelist *zonelist;
- int zoneref_idx = 0;
+ int nr_zones = 0;
zonelist = &pgdat->node_zonelists[ZONELIST_NOFALLBACK];
- zoneref_idx = build_zonelists_node(pgdat, zonelist, zoneref_idx);
- zonelist->_zonerefs[zoneref_idx].zone = NULL;
- zonelist->_zonerefs[zoneref_idx].zone_idx = 0;
+ nr_zones = build_zonelists_node(pgdat, zonelist, nr_zones);
+ zonelist->_zonerefs[nr_zones].zone = NULL;
+ zonelist->_zonerefs[nr_zones].zone_idx = 0;
}
/*
@@ -4979,7 +4980,7 @@ static void build_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
load--;
}
- build_zonelists_in_node_order(pgdat, node_order);
+ build_zonelists_in_node_order(pgdat, node_order, i);
build_thisnode_zonelists(pgdat);
}
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-14 7:59 [PATCH 0/9] cleanup zonelists initialization Michal Hocko
2017-07-14 7:59 ` [PATCH 1/9] mm, page_alloc: rip out ZONELIST_ORDER_ZONE Michal Hocko
2017-07-14 9:36 ` Mel Gorman
2017-07-14 10:47 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-14 11:16 ` Mel Gorman
2017-07-14 11:38 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-14 12:56 ` Mel Gorman
2017-07-14 13:01 ` Mel Gorman
2017-07-14 13:08 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-19 9:33 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-07-19 13:44 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-14 7:59 ` [PATCH 2/9] mm, page_alloc: remove boot pageset initialization from memory hotplug Michal Hocko
2017-07-14 9:39 ` Mel Gorman
2017-07-19 13:15 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-07-14 8:00 ` [PATCH 3/9] mm, page_alloc: do not set_cpu_numa_mem on empty nodes initialization Michal Hocko
2017-07-14 9:48 ` Mel Gorman
2017-07-14 10:50 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-14 12:32 ` Mel Gorman
2017-07-14 12:39 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-14 12:56 ` Mel Gorman
2017-07-19 13:19 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-07-14 8:00 ` [PATCH 4/9] mm, memory_hotplug: drop zone from build_all_zonelists Michal Hocko
2017-07-19 13:33 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-07-20 8:15 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-14 8:00 ` [PATCH 5/9] mm, memory_hotplug: remove explicit build_all_zonelists from try_online_node Michal Hocko
2017-07-14 12:14 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-20 6:13 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-07-14 8:00 ` [PATCH 6/9] mm, page_alloc: simplify zonelist initialization Michal Hocko
2017-07-14 9:55 ` Mel Gorman
2017-07-14 10:51 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-14 12:46 ` Mel Gorman
2017-07-14 13:02 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2017-07-14 14:18 ` Mel Gorman
2017-07-17 6:06 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-17 8:07 ` Mel Gorman
2017-07-17 8:19 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-17 8:58 ` Mel Gorman
2017-07-17 9:15 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-20 6:55 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-07-20 7:19 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-14 8:00 ` [PATCH 7/9] mm, page_alloc: remove stop_machine from build_all_zonelists Michal Hocko
2017-07-14 9:59 ` Mel Gorman
2017-07-14 11:00 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-14 12:47 ` Mel Gorman
2017-07-14 11:29 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-07-14 11:43 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-14 11:45 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-20 6:16 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-07-20 7:24 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-07-20 9:21 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-14 8:00 ` [PATCH 8/9] mm, memory_hotplug: get rid of zonelists_mutex Michal Hocko
2017-07-14 8:00 ` [PATCH 9/9] mm, sparse, page_ext: drop ugly N_HIGH_MEMORY branches for allocations Michal Hocko
2017-07-20 8:04 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-07-21 14:39 [PATCH -v1 0/9] cleanup zonelists initialization Michal Hocko
2017-07-21 14:39 ` [PATCH 6/9] mm, page_alloc: simplify zonelist initialization Michal Hocko
2017-07-24 9:25 ` Vlastimil Babka
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