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Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , x86@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 (RESEND) 2/3] mm/sparsemem: Enable vmem_altmap support in vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() Message-ID: <20200702140752.GF22241@gaia> References: <1592442930-9380-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com> <1592442930-9380-3-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1592442930-9380-3-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 092B21801E56D X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.00 / 100.00] X-Rspamd-Server: rspam05 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 06:45:29AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote: > There are many instances where vmemap allocation is often switched between > regular memory and device memory just based on whether altmap is available > or not. vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() is used in various platforms to allocate > vmemmap mappings. Lets also enable it to handle altmap based device memory > allocation along with existing regular memory allocations. This will help > in avoiding the altmap based allocation switch in many places. > > While here also implement a regular memory allocation fallback mechanism > when the first preferred device memory allocation fails. This will ensure > preserving the existing semantics on powerpc platform. To summarize there > are three different methods to call vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(). > > (., NULL, false) /* Allocate from system RAM */ > (., altmap, false) /* Allocate from altmap without any fallback */ > (., altmap, true) /* Allocate from altmap with fallback (system RAM) */ [...] > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c > index bc73abf0bc25..01e25b56eccb 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c > +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c > @@ -225,12 +225,12 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node, > * fall back to system memory if the altmap allocation fail. > */ > if (altmap && !altmap_cross_boundary(altmap, start, page_size)) { > - p = altmap_alloc_block_buf(page_size, altmap); > - if (!p) > - pr_debug("altmap block allocation failed, falling back to system memory"); > + p = vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(page_size, node, > + altmap, true); > + } else { > + p = vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(page_size, node, > + NULL, false); > } > - if (!p) > - p = vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(page_size, node); > if (!p) > return -ENOMEM; Is the fallback argument actually necessary. It may be cleaner to just leave the code as is with the choice between altmap and NULL. If an arch needs a fallback (only powerpc), they have the fallback in place already. I don't see the powerpc code any better after this change. I'm fine with the altmap argument though. -- Catalin