Subject: [PATCH v2 1/5] mm: memory_hotplug: Memory hotplug (add) support for arm64

From: [email-masked] (Maciej Bielski)
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 11:53:08 +0100

On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 09:42:33AM +0000, Andrea Reale wrote:
> Hi Arun,
>
>
> On Fri 24 Nov 2017, 11:25, Arun KS wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Maciej Bielski
> > <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >> [ ...]
> > > Introduces memory hotplug functionality (hot-add) for arm64.
> > > @@ -615,6 +616,44 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
> > >                       SWAPPER_DIR_SIZE - PAGE_SIZE);
> > >  }
> > >
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
> > > +
> > > +/*
> > > + * hotplug_paging() is used by memory hotplug to build new page tables
> > > + * for hot added memory.
> > > + */
> > > +
> > > +struct mem_range {
> > > +       phys_addr_t base;
> > > +       phys_addr_t size;
> > > +};
> > > +
> > > +static int __hotplug_paging(void *data)
> > > +{
> > > +       int flags = 0;
> > > +       struct mem_range *section = data;
> > > +
> > > +       if (debug_pagealloc_enabled())
> > > +               flags = NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS | NO_CONT_MAPPINGS;
> > > +
> > > +       __create_pgd_mapping(swapper_pg_dir, section->base,
> > > +                       __phys_to_virt(section->base), section->size,
> > > +                       PAGE_KERNEL, pgd_pgtable_alloc, flags);
> >
> > Hello Andrea,
> >
> > __hotplug_paging runs on stop_machine context.
> > cpu stop callbacks must not sleep.
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/kernel/stop_machine.c?h=v4.14#n479
> >
> > __create_pgd_mapping uses pgd_pgtable_alloc. which does
> > __get_free_page(PGALLOC_GFP)
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c?h=v4.14#n342
> >
> > PGALLOC_GFP has GFP_KERNEL which inturn has __GFP_RECLAIM
> >
> > #define PGALLOC_GFP     (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO)
> > #define GFP_KERNEL      (__GFP_RECLAIM | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS)
> >
> > Now, prepare_alloc_pages() called by __alloc_pages_nodemask checks for
> >
> > might_sleep_if(gfp_mask & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM);
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/page_alloc.c?h=v4.14#n4150
> >
> > and then BUG()
>
> Well spotted, thanks for reporting the problem. One possible solution
> would be to revert back to building the updated page tables on a copy
> pgdir (as it was done in v1 of this patchset) and then replacing swapper
> atomically with stop_machine.
>
> Actually, I am not sure if stop_machine is strictly needed,
> if we modify the swapper pgdir live: for example, in x86_64
> kernel_physical_mapping_init, atomicity is ensured by spin-locking on
> init_mm.page_table_lock.
> https://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/v4.14/source/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c#L684
> I'll spend some time investigating whoever else could be working
> concurrently on the swapper pgdir.
>
> Any suggestion or pointer is very welcome.

Hi Andrea, Arun,

Alternative approach could be implementing pgd_pgtable_alloc_nosleep() and
pointing this to hotplug_paging(). Subsequently, it could use different flags,
eg:

#define PGALLOC_GFP_NORECLAIM	(__GFP_IO | __GFP_FS | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO)

Is this unefficient approach in any way?
Do we like the fact that the memory-attaching thread can go to sleep?

BR,

>
> Thanks,
> Andrea
>
> > I was testing on 4.4 kernel, but cross checked with 4.14 as well.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Arun
> >
> >
> > > +
> > > +       return 0;
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +inline void hotplug_paging(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t size)
> > > +{
> > > +       struct mem_range section = {
> > > +               .base = start,
> > > +               .size = size,
> > > +       };
> > > +
> > > +       stop_machine(__hotplug_paging, &section, NULL);
> > > +}
> > > +#endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG */
> > > +
> > >  /*
> > >   * Check whether a kernel address is valid (derived from arch/x86/).
> > >   */
> > > --
> > > 2.7.4
> > >
> >
>

--
Maciej Bielski