From: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
To: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/7] mm,hugetlb: Clear HPageFreed outside of the lock
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:45:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b763adaf-258a-930f-d8f2-5d236e217fe7@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210414104953.GF20886@linux>
On 4/14/21 3:49 AM, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 12:32:58PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> Well, to be precise it does the very same thing with memamp struct pages
>> but that is before the initialization code you have pointed out above.
>> In this context it just poisons the allocated content which is the GB
>> page storage.
>
> Right.
>
>>> I checked, and when we get there in __alloc_bootmem_huge_page, page->private is
>>> still zeroed, so I guess it should be safe to assume that we do not really need
>>> to clear the flag in __prep_new_huge_page() routine?
>>
>> It would be quite nasty if the struct pages content would be undefined.
>> Maybe that is possible but then I would rather stick the initialization
>> into __alloc_bootmem_huge_page.
>
> Yes, but I do not think that is really possible unless I missed something.
> Let us see what Mike thinks of it, if there are no objections, we can
> get rid of the clearing flag right there.
>
Thanks for crawling through that code Oscar!
I do not think you missed anything. Let's just get rid of the flag
clearing.
--
Mike Kravetz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-14 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-13 10:47 [PATCH v7 0/7] Make alloc_contig_range handle Hugetlb pages Oscar Salvador
2021-04-13 10:47 ` [PATCH v7 1/7] mm,page_alloc: Bail out earlier on -ENOMEM in alloc_contig_migrate_range Oscar Salvador
2021-04-13 17:00 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-04-13 10:47 ` [PATCH v7 2/7] mm,compaction: Let isolate_migratepages_{range,block} return error codes Oscar Salvador
2021-04-13 17:52 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-04-14 11:54 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-15 8:42 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-13 10:47 ` [PATCH v7 3/7] mm,hugetlb: Clear HPageFreed outside of the lock Oscar Salvador
2021-04-13 13:23 ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-13 21:19 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-04-14 6:04 ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-14 7:41 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-14 8:28 ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-14 10:01 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-14 10:03 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-14 10:32 ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-14 10:49 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-14 11:09 ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-14 12:02 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-14 16:45 ` Mike Kravetz [this message]
2021-04-13 10:47 ` [PATCH v7 4/7] mm,hugetlb: Split prep_new_huge_page functionality Oscar Salvador
2021-04-13 13:24 ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-13 13:26 ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-13 21:33 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-04-14 4:59 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-14 12:15 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-14 17:03 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-04-13 10:47 ` [PATCH v7 5/7] mm: Make alloc_contig_range handle free hugetlb pages Oscar Salvador
2021-04-13 13:40 ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-15 8:29 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-13 22:29 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-04-14 4:54 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-14 12:26 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-15 8:28 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-13 10:47 ` [PATCH v7 6/7] mm: Make alloc_contig_range handle in-use " Oscar Salvador
2021-04-13 22:48 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-04-14 4:52 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-14 17:07 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-04-13 10:47 ` [PATCH v7 7/7] mm,page_alloc: Drop unnecessary checks from pfn_range_valid_contig Oscar Salvador
2021-04-13 22:53 ` Mike Kravetz
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