From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
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Subject: Re: [External] Re: [RFC PATCH 00/24] mm/hugetlb: Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb page
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 16:42:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200915154213.GI5449@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMZfGtW0PqU6SLihLABA8rU+FuBqm8NksDW=EkLXy1RZfYeDGA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:28:01PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 10:32 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 08:59:23PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> > > This patch series will free some vmemmap pages(struct page structures)
> > > associated with each hugetlbpage when preallocated to save memory.
> >
> > It would be lovely to be able to do this. Unfortunately, it's completely
> > impossible right now. Consider, for example, get_user_pages() called
> > on the fifth page of a hugetlb page.
>
> Can you elaborate on the problem? Thanks so much.
OK, let's say you want to do a 2kB I/O to offset 0x5000 of a 2MB page
on a 4kB base page system. Today, that results in a bio_vec containing
{head+5, 0, 0x800}. Then we call page_to_phys() on that (head+5) struct
page to get the physical address of the I/O, and we turn it into a struct
scatterlist, which similarly has a reference to the page (head+5).
If you're returning page (head+1) from get_user_pages(), all the
calculations will be wrong and you'll do DMA to the wrong address.
What needs to happen is a conversion to get_user_bvecs(). That way we
can return a bvec which is {head, 0x5000, 0x800} and the calculations
will work. So that's going to involve touching a lot of device drivers.
Christoph has a start on it here:
http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/gup-bvec
Overlapping with that is a desire to change the biovec so that it
only stores {phys_addr, length} rather than {page, offset, length}.
We're also going to have to rework the scatterlist so that it doesn't
carry a struct page either.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-15 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-15 12:59 [RFC PATCH 00/24] mm/hugetlb: Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 01/24] mm/memory_hotplug: Move bootmem info registration API to bootmem_info.c Muchun Song
2020-09-29 22:46 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 02/24] mm/memory_hotplug: Move {get,put}_page_bootmem() " Muchun Song
2020-09-29 23:30 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 03/24] mm/hugetlb: Introduce a new config HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP Muchun Song
2020-09-16 2:13 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-09-29 23:41 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-09-30 2:56 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 04/24] mm/hugetlb: Register bootmem info when CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 05/24] mm/hugetlb: Introduce nr_free_vmemmap_pages in the struct hstate Muchun Song
2020-09-30 22:41 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-10-01 2:57 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 06/24] mm/hugetlb: Introduce pgtable allocation/freeing helpers Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 07/24] mm/hugetlb: Add freeing unused vmemmap pages support for x86 Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 08/24] mm/bootmem_info: Introduce {free,prepare}_vmemmap_page() Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 09/24] x86/mm: Introduce VMEMMAP_SIZE/VMEMMAP_END macro Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 10/24] mm/hugetlb: Free the vmemmap pages associated with each hugetlb page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 11/24] mm/hugetlb: Add vmemmap_pmd_huge macro for x86 Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 12/24] mm/hugetlb: Defer freeing of hugetlb pages Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 13/24] mm/hugetlb: Allocate the vmemmap pages associated with each hugetlb page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 14/24] mm/hugetlb: Introduce remap_huge_page_pmd_vmemmap helper Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 15/24] mm/hugetlb: Use PG_slab to indicate split pmd Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 16/24] mm/hugetlb: Support freeing vmemmap pages of gigantic page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 17/24] mm/hugetlb: Add a BUILD_BUG_ON to check if struct page size is a power of two Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 18/24] mm/hugetlb: Clear PageHWPoison on the non-error memory page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 19/24] mm/hugetlb: Flush work when dissolving hugetlb page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 20/24] mm/hugetlb: Add a kernel parameter hugetlb_free_vmemmap Muchun Song
2020-09-16 2:10 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-09-16 2:50 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 21/24] mm/hugetlb: Merge pte to huge pmd only for gigantic page Muchun Song
2020-09-20 9:59 ` Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 22/24] mm/hugetlb: Implement vmemmap_pmd_mkhuge macro Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 23/24] mm/hugetlb: Gather discrete indexes of tail page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 24/24] mm/hugetlb: Add BUILD_BUG_ON to catch invalid usage of tail struct page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 14:32 ` [RFC PATCH 00/24] mm/hugetlb: Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb page Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-15 14:53 ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-15 15:28 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-09-15 15:42 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2020-09-15 17:32 ` Muchun Song
2020-09-15 17:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-15 18:03 ` Muchun Song
2020-09-15 18:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-16 2:45 ` Muchun Song
2020-09-29 21:58 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-09-30 3:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-10-07 21:12 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-10-09 4:13 ` [External] " Muchun Song
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