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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 4/4] powernv/memtrace: don't abuse memory hot(un)plug
 infrastructure for memory allocations
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On Thu 29-10-20 17:27:18, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Let's use alloc_contig_pages() for allocating memory and remove the
> linear mapping manually via arch_remove_linear_mapping(). Mark all pages
> PG_offline, such that they will definitely not get touched - e.g.,
> when hibernating. When freeing memory, try to revert what we did.
> 
> The original idea was discussed in:
>  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/48340e96-7e6b-736f-9e23-d3111b915b6e@redhat.com
> 
> This is similar to CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC handling on other
> architectures, whereby only single pages are unmapped from the linear
> mapping. Let's mimic what memory hot(un)plug would do with the linear
> mapping.
> 
> We now need MEMORY_HOTPLUG and CONTIG_ALLOC as dependencies.
> 
> Simple test under QEMU TCG (10GB RAM, single NUMA node):
> 
> sh-5.0# mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug/
> sh-5.0# cat /sys/devices/system/memory/block_size_bytes
> 40000000
> sh-5.0# echo 0x40000000 > /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/enable
> [   71.052836][  T356] memtrace: Allocated trace memory on node 0 at 0x0000000080000000
> sh-5.0# echo 0x80000000 > /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/enable
> [   75.424302][  T356] radix-mmu: Mapped 0x0000000080000000-0x00000000c0000000 with 64.0 KiB pages
> [   75.430549][  T356] memtrace: Freed trace memory back on node 0
> [   75.604520][  T356] memtrace: Allocated trace memory on node 0 at 0x0000000080000000
> sh-5.0# echo 0x100000000 > /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/enable
> [   80.418835][  T356] radix-mmu: Mapped 0x0000000080000000-0x0000000100000000 with 64.0 KiB pages
> [   80.430493][  T356] memtrace: Freed trace memory back on node 0
> [   80.433882][  T356] memtrace: Failed to allocate trace memory on node 0
> sh-5.0# echo 0x40000000 > /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/enable
> [   91.920158][  T356] memtrace: Allocated trace memory on node 0 at 0x0000000080000000
> 
> Note 1: We currently won't be allocating from ZONE_MOVABLE - because our
> 	pages are not movable. However, as we don't run with any memory
> 	hot(un)plug mechanism around, we could make an exception to
> 	increase the chance of allocations succeeding.
> 
> Note 2: PG_reserved isn't sufficient. E.g., kernel_page_present() used
> 	along PG_reserved in hibernation code will always return "true"
> 	on powerpc, resulting in the pages getting touched. It's too
> 	generic - e.g., indicates boot allocations.
> 
> Note 3: For now, we keep using memory_block_size_bytes() as minimum
> 	granularity. I'm not able to come up with a better guess (most
> 	probably, doing it on a section basis could be possible).
> 
> Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Cc: Rashmica Gupta <rashmica.g@gmail.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

Thanks! This looks like a move into the right direction. I cannot really
judge implementation details because I am not familiar with the code.
I have only one tiny concern:
[...]
> -/* called with device_hotplug_lock held */
> -static bool memtrace_offline_pages(u32 nid, u64 start_pfn, u64 nr_pages)
> +static u64 memtrace_alloc_node(u32 nid, u64 size)
>  {
> -	const unsigned long start = PFN_PHYS(start_pfn);
> -	const unsigned long size = PFN_PHYS(nr_pages);
> +	const unsigned long nr_pages = PHYS_PFN(size);
> +	unsigned long pfn, start_pfn;
> +	struct page *page;
>  
> -	if (walk_memory_blocks(start, size, NULL, check_memblock_online))
> -		return false;
> -
> -	walk_memory_blocks(start, size, (void *)MEM_GOING_OFFLINE,
> -			   change_memblock_state);
> -
> -	if (offline_pages(start_pfn, nr_pages)) {
> -		walk_memory_blocks(start, size, (void *)MEM_ONLINE,
> -				   change_memblock_state);
> -		return false;
> -	}
> +	/*
> +	 * Trace memory needs to be aligned to the size, which is guaranteed
> +	 * by alloc_contig_pages().
> +	 */
> +	page = alloc_contig_pages(nr_pages, __GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NOWARN,
> +				  nid, NULL);

__GFP_THISNODE without other modifiers looks suspicious. I suspect you
want to enfore node locality and exclude movable zones by this. While
this works it is an antipattern. I would rather use GFP_KERNEL |
__GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NOWARN to be more in line with other gfp usage.

If for no other reasons we want to be able to work inside a normal
compaction context (comparing to effectively GFP_NOIO which the above
implies). Also this looks like a sleepable context.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs