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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 4/4] mm: Defer ZONE_DEVICE page initialization to the point where we init pgmap
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On 10/11/2018 1:39 AM, Yi Zhang wrote:
> On 2018-10-10 at 11:18:49 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 10:30 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed 10-10-18 09:39:08, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>>>> On 10/10/2018 2:58 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>>>> On Tue 09-10-18 13:26:41, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>> I would think with that being the case we still probably need the call to
>>>>>> __SetPageReserved to set the bit with the expectation that it will not be
>>>>>> cleared for device-pages since the pages are not onlined. Removing the call
>>>>>> to __SetPageReserved would probably introduce a number of regressions as
>>>>>> there are multiple spots that use the reserved bit to determine if a page
>>>>>> can be swapped out to disk, mapped as system memory, or migrated.
>>>>>
>>>>> PageReserved is meant to tell any potential pfn walkers that might get
>>>>> to this struct page to back off and not touch it. Even though
>>>>> ZONE_DEVICE doesn't online pages in traditional sense it makes those
>>>>> pages available for further use so the page reserved bit should be
>>>>> cleared.
>>>>
>>>> So from what I can tell that isn't necessarily the case. Specifically if the
>>>> pagemap type is MEMORY_DEVICE_PRIVATE or MEMORY_DEVICE_PUBLIC both are
>>>> special cases where the memory may not be accessible to the CPU or cannot be
>>>> pinned in order to allow for eviction.
>>>
>>> Could you give me an example please?
>>>
>>>> The specific case that Dan and Yi are referring to is for the type
>>>> MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX. For that type I could probably look at not setting the
>>>> reserved bit. Part of me wants to say that we should wait and clear the bit
>>>> later, but that would end up just adding time back to initialization. At
>>>> this point I would consider the change more of a follow-up optimization
>>>> rather than a fix though since this is tailoring things specifically for DAX
>>>> versus the other ZONE_DEVICE types.
>>>
>>> I thought I have already made it clear that these zone device hacks are
>>> not acceptable to the generic hotplug code. If the current reserve bit
>>> handling is not correct then give us a specific reason for that and we
>>> can start thinking about the proper fix.
>>>
>>
>> Right, so we're in a situation where a hack is needed for KVM's
>> current interpretation of the Reserved flag relative to dax mapped
>> pages. I'm arguing to push that knowledge / handling as deep as
>> possible into the core rather than hack the leaf implementations like
>> KVM, i.e. disable the Reserved flag for all non-MEMORY_DEVICE_*
>> ZONE_DEVICE types.
>>
>> Here is the KVM thread about why they need a change:
>>
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/7/552
>>
>> ...and where I pushed back on a KVM-local hack:
>>
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/19/154
> Yeah, Thank Dan, I think I can going on with something like this:
>
> @@ -5589,6 +5589,7 @@ void __ref memmap_init_zone_device(struct zone *zone,
> struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
>
> __init_single_page(page, pfn, zone_idx, nid);
> + /* Could we move this a little bit earlier as I can
> + * direct use is_dax_page(page), or something else?
> + */
> + page->pgmap = pgmap;
>
> /*
> * Mark page reserved as it will need to wait for onlining
> @@ -5597,14 +5598,14 @@ void __ref memmap_init_zone_device(struct zone *zone,
> * We can use the non-atomic __set_bit operation for setting
> * the flag as we are still initializing the pages.
> */
> - __SetPageReserved(page);
> + if(!is_dax_page(page))
> + __SetPageReserved(page);
>
> /*
> * ZONE_DEVICE pages union ->lru with a ->pgmap back
> * pointer and hmm_data. It is a bug if a ZONE_DEVICE
> * page is ever freed or placed on a driver-private list.
> */
> - page->pgmap = pgmap;
> page->hmm_data = 0;
>
>
> After Alex's patch merged.

So I am not a huge fan of splitting up the pgmap init from the hmm_data,
but I suppose this is just for your proof-of-concept?

I already have another patch set outstanding that may actually make this
change easier[1]. What I could do is add the logic there based on the
pgmap.type as an additional patch since I pass a boolean to determine if
I am setting the reserved bit or not.

[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181005151006.17473.83040.stgit@localhost.localdomain/

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