From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
To: dan.j.williams@intel.com
Cc: pavel.tatashin@microsoft.com, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
jglisse@redhat.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] mm: Defer ZONE_DEVICE page initialization to the point where we init pgmap
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 17:51:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKgT0UdmkAXLdR6cfgmu-LcJUOO8a4qAS8zO3Bn+LwjJ9rT3pg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4ja7=eUbwwJZhreexa9_7JyJotQwObrQm=nCEcgcfbWyw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 3:35 PM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 4:43 PM, Alexander Duyck
> <alexander.duyck@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
> >
> > The ZONE_DEVICE pages were being initialized in two locations. One was with
> > the memory_hotplug lock held and another was outside of that lock. The
> > problem with this is that it was nearly doubling the memory initialization
> > time. Instead of doing this twice, once while holding a global lock and
> > once without, I am opting to defer the initialization to the one outside of
> > the lock. This allows us to avoid serializing the overhead for memory init
> > and we can instead focus on per-node init times.
> >
> > One issue I encountered is that devm_memremap_pages and
> > hmm_devmmem_pages_create were initializing only the pgmap field the same
> > way. One wasn't initializing hmm_data, and the other was initializing it to
> > a poison value. Since this is something that is exposed to the driver in
> > the case of hmm I am opting for a third option and just initializing
> > hmm_data to 0 since this is going to be exposed to unknown third party
> > drivers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
> > ---
> > include/linux/mm.h | 2 +
> > kernel/memremap.c | 24 +++++---------
> > mm/hmm.c | 12 ++++---
> > mm/page_alloc.c | 89 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>
> Hmm, why mm/page_alloc.c and not kernel/memremap.c for this new
> helper? I think that would address the kbuild reports and keeps all
> the devm_memremap_pages / ZONE_DEVICE special casing centralized. I
> also think it makes sense to move memremap.c to mm/ rather than
> kernel/ especially since commit 5981690ddb8f "memremap: split
> devm_memremap_pages() and memremap() infrastructure". Arguably, that
> commit should have went ahead with the directory move.
The issue ends up being the fact that I would then have to start
exporting infrastructure such as __init_single_page from page_alloc. I
have some follow-up patches I am working on that will generate some
other shared functions that can be used by both memmap_init_zone and
memmap_init_zone_device, as well as pulling in some of the code from
the deferred memory init.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-10 23:43 [PATCH 0/4] Address issues slowing persistent memory initialization Alexander Duyck
2018-09-10 23:43 ` [PATCH 1/4] mm: Provide kernel parameter to allow disabling page init poisoning Alexander Duyck
2018-09-11 0:35 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-09-11 16:50 ` Dan Williams
2018-09-11 20:01 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-09-11 20:24 ` Dan Williams
2018-09-12 13:24 ` Pasha Tatashin
2018-09-12 14:10 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-12 14:49 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-09-12 15:23 ` Dave Hansen
2018-09-12 16:36 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-09-12 16:43 ` Dave Hansen
2018-09-10 23:43 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm: Create non-atomic version of SetPageReserved for init use Alexander Duyck
2018-09-12 13:28 ` Pasha Tatashin
2018-09-10 23:43 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm: Defer ZONE_DEVICE page initialization to the point where we init pgmap Alexander Duyck
2018-09-11 7:49 ` kbuild test robot
2018-09-11 7:54 ` kbuild test robot
2018-09-11 22:35 ` Dan Williams
2018-09-12 0:51 ` Alexander Duyck [this message]
2018-09-12 0:59 ` Dan Williams
2018-09-12 13:59 ` Pasha Tatashin
2018-09-12 15:48 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-09-12 15:54 ` Pasha Tatashin
2018-09-12 16:44 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-09-12 16:50 ` Dan Williams
2018-09-12 17:46 ` Pasha Tatashin
2018-09-12 19:11 ` Dan Williams
2018-09-10 23:44 ` [PATCH 4/4] nvdimm: Trigger the device probe on a cpu local to the device Alexander Duyck
2018-09-11 0:37 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-09-12 5:48 ` Dan Williams
2018-09-12 13:44 ` Pasha Tatashin
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