[Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 12/12] mm/memory_hotplug: Don't mark pages PG_reserved when initializing the memmap

[David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Everything should be prepared to stop setting pages PG_reserved when
initializing the memmap on memory hotplug. Most importantly, we
stop marking ZONE_DEVICE pages PG_reserved.

a) We made sure that any code that relied on PG_reserved to detect
   ZONE_DEVICE memory will no longer rely on PG_reserved - either
   by using pfn_to_online_page() to exclude them right away or by
   checking against is_zone_device_page().
b) We made sure that memory blocks with holes cannot be offlined and
   therefore also not onlined. We have quite some code that relies on
   memory holes being marked PG_reserved. This is now not an issue
   anymore.

generic_online_page() still calls __free_pages_core(), which performs
__ClearPageReserved(p). AFAIKS, this should not hurt.

It is worth nothing that the users of online_page_callback_t might see a
change. E.g., until now, pages not freed to the buddy by the HyperV
balloonm were set PG_reserved until freed via generic_online_page(). Now,
they would look like ordinarily allocated pages (refcount == 1). This
callback is used by the XEN balloon and the HyperV balloon. To not
introduce any silent errors, keep marking the pages PG_reserved. We can
most probably stop doing that, but have to double check if there are
issues (e.g., offlining code aborts right away in has_unmovable_pages()
when it runs into a PageReserved(page))

Update the documentation at various places.

Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pavel.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c    |  6 ++++++
 drivers/xen/balloon.c      |  7 +++++++
 include/linux/page-flags.h |  8 +-------
 mm/memory_hotplug.c        | 17 +++++++----------
 mm/page_alloc.c            | 11 -----------
 5 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
index c722079d3c24..3214b0ef5247 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
@@ -670,6 +670,12 @@ static struct notifier_block hv_memory_nb = {
 /* Check if the particular page is backed and can be onlined and online it. */
 static void hv_page_online_one(struct hv_hotadd_state *has, struct page *pg)
 {
+       /*
+        * TODO: The core used to mark the pages reserved. Most probably
+        * we can stop doing that now.
+        */
+       __SetPageReserved(pg);
+
        if (!has_pfn_is_backed(has, page_to_pfn(pg))) {
                if (!PageOffline(pg))
                        __SetPageOffline(pg);
diff --git a/drivers/xen/balloon.c b/drivers/xen/balloon.c
index 4f2e78a5e4db..af69f057913a 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/balloon.c
@@ -374,6 +374,13 @@ static void xen_online_page(struct page *page, unsigned 
int order)
        mutex_lock(&balloon_mutex);
        for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
                p = pfn_to_page(start_pfn + i);
+               /*
+                * TODO: The core used to mark the pages reserved. Most probably
+                * we can stop doing that now. However, especially
+                * alloc_xenballooned_pages() left PG_reserved set
+                * on pages that can get mapped to user space.
+                */
+               __SetPageReserved(p);
                balloon_append(p);
        }
        mutex_unlock(&balloon_mutex);
diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index f91cb8898ff0..d4f85d866b71 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -30,24 +30,18 @@
  * - Pages falling into physical memory gaps - not IORESOURCE_SYSRAM. Trying
  *   to read/write these pages might end badly. Don't touch!
  * - The zero page(s)
- * - Pages not added to the page allocator when onlining a section because
- *   they were excluded via the online_page_callback() or because they are
- *   PG_hwpoison.
  * - Pages allocated in the context of kexec/kdump (loaded kernel image,
  *   control pages, vmcoreinfo)
  * - MMIO/DMA pages. Some architectures don't allow to ioremap pages that are
  *   not marked PG_reserved (as they might be in use by somebody else who does
  *   not respect the caching strategy).
- * - Pages part of an offline section (struct pages of offline sections should
- *   not be trusted as they will be initialized when first onlined).
  * - MCA pages on ia64
  * - Pages holding CPU notes for POWER Firmware Assisted Dump
- * - Device memory (e.g. PMEM, DAX, HMM)
  * Some PG_reserved pages will be excluded from the hibernation image.
  * PG_reserved does in general not hinder anybody from dumping or swapping
  * and is no longer required for remap_pfn_range(). ioremap might require it.
  * Consequently, PG_reserved for a page mapped into user space can indicate
- * the zero page, the vDSO, MMIO pages or device memory.
+ * the zero page, the vDSO, or MMIO pages.
  *
  * The PG_private bitflag is set on pagecache pages if they contain filesystem
  * specific data (which is normally at page->private). It can be used by
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 7210f4375279..9fbcdeaf0339 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -501,9 +501,7 @@ static void __remove_section(unsigned long pfn, unsigned 
long nr_pages,
  * @altmap: alternative device page map or %NULL if default memmap is used
  *
  * Generic helper function to remove section mappings and sysfs entries
- * for the section of the memory we are removing. Caller needs to make
- * sure that pages are marked reserved and zones are adjust properly by
- * calling offline_pages().
+ * for the section of the memory we are removing.
  */
 void __remove_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
                    struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
@@ -584,9 +582,9 @@ static int online_pages_range(unsigned long start_pfn, 
unsigned long nr_pages,
        int order;
 
        /*
-        * Online the pages. The callback might decide to keep some pages
-        * PG_reserved (to add them to the buddy later), but we still account
-        * them as being online/belonging to this zone ("present").
+        * Online the pages. The callback might decide to not free some pages
+        * (to add them to the buddy later), but we still account them as
+        * being online/belonging to this zone ("present").
         */
        for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn += 1ul << order) {
                order = min(MAX_ORDER - 1, get_order(PFN_PHYS(end_pfn - pfn)));
@@ -659,8 +657,7 @@ static void __meminit resize_pgdat_range(struct pglist_data 
*pgdat, unsigned lon
 }
 /*
  * Associate the pfn range with the given zone, initializing the memmaps
- * and resizing the pgdat/zone data to span the added pages. After this
- * call, all affected pages are PG_reserved.
+ * and resizing the pgdat/zone data to span the added pages.
  */
 void __ref move_pfn_range_to_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
                unsigned long nr_pages, struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
@@ -684,8 +681,8 @@ void __ref move_pfn_range_to_zone(struct zone *zone, 
unsigned long start_pfn,
        /*
         * TODO now we have a visible range of pages which are not associated
         * with their zone properly. Not nice but set_pfnblock_flags_mask
-        * expects the zone spans the pfn range. All the pages in the range
-        * are reserved so nobody should be touching them so we should be safe
+        * expects the zone spans the pfn range. The sections are not yet
+        * marked online so nobody should be touching the memmap.
         */
        memmap_init_zone(nr_pages, nid, zone_idx(zone), start_pfn,
                        MEMMAP_HOTPLUG, altmap);
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index e153280bde9a..29787ac4aeb8 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5927,8 +5927,6 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int 
nid, unsigned long zone,
 
                page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
                __init_single_page(page, pfn, zone, nid);
-               if (context == MEMMAP_HOTPLUG)
-                       __SetPageReserved(page);
 
                /*
                 * Mark the block movable so that blocks are reserved for
@@ -5980,15 +5978,6 @@ void __ref memmap_init_zone_device(struct zone *zone,
 
                __init_single_page(page, pfn, zone_idx, nid);
 
-               /*
-                * Mark page reserved as it will need to wait for onlining
-                * phase for it to be fully associated with a zone.
-                *
-                * We can use the non-atomic __set_bit operation for setting
-                * the flag as we are still initializing the pages.
-                */
-               __SetPageReserved(page);
-
                /*
                 * ZONE_DEVICE pages union ->lru with a ->pgmap back pointer
                 * and zone_device_data.  It is a bug if a ZONE_DEVICE page is
-- 
2.21.0


_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel