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SubjectRe: [PATCH] hugetlb: allow to free gigantic pages regardless of the configuration
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On 1/17/19 10:39 AM, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> From: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
>
> On systems without CMA or (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) activated but
> that support gigantic pages, boottime reserved gigantic pages can not be
> freed at all. This patchs simply enables the possibility to hand back
> those pages to memory allocator.
>
> This commit then renames gigantic_page_supported and
> ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE to make them more accurate. Indeed, those values
> being false does not mean that the system cannot use gigantic pages: it
> just means that runtime allocation of gigantic pages is not supported,
> one can still allocate boottime gigantic pages if the architecture supports
> it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>

Thank you for doing this!

Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>

> --- a/include/linux/gfp.h
> +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
> @@ -589,8 +589,8 @@ static inline bool pm_suspended_storage(void)
> /* The below functions must be run on a range from a single zone. */
> extern int alloc_contig_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
> unsigned migratetype, gfp_t gfp_mask);
> -extern void free_contig_range(unsigned long pfn, unsigned nr_pages);
> #endif
> +extern void free_contig_range(unsigned long pfn, unsigned int nr_pages);

I think nr_pages should be an unsigned long in cma_release() and here
as well, but that is beyond the scope of this patch. Most callers of
cma_release pass in a truncated unsigned long. The truncation is unlikely
to cause any issues, just would be nice if types were consistent. I have
a patch to do that as part of a contiguous allocation series that I will
get back to someday.

> @@ -2350,9 +2355,10 @@ static unsigned long set_max_huge_pages(struct hstate *h, unsigned long count,
> break;
> }
> out:
> - ret = persistent_huge_pages(h);
> + h->max_huge_pages = persistent_huge_pages(h);
> spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
> - return ret;
> +
> + return 0;
> }
>
> #define HSTATE_ATTR_RO(_name) \
> @@ -2404,11 +2410,6 @@ static ssize_t __nr_hugepages_store_common(bool obey_mempolicy,
> int err;
> NODEMASK_ALLOC(nodemask_t, nodes_allowed, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY);
>
> - if (hstate_is_gigantic(h) && !gigantic_page_supported()) {
> - err = -EINVAL;
> - goto out;
> - }
> -
> if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE) {
> /*
> * global hstate attribute
> @@ -2428,7 +2429,9 @@ static ssize_t __nr_hugepages_store_common(bool obey_mempolicy,
> } else
> nodes_allowed = &node_states[N_MEMORY];
>
> - h->max_huge_pages = set_max_huge_pages(h, count, nodes_allowed);
> + err = set_max_huge_pages(h, count, nodes_allowed);
> + if (err)
> + goto out;
>
> if (nodes_allowed != &node_states[N_MEMORY])
> NODEMASK_FREE(nodes_allowed);

Yeah! Those changes causes max_huge_pages to be modified while holding
hugetlb_lock as it should be.
--
Mike Kravetz

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