[PATCH v3 1/3] mm/hugetlb: Allow arch to override and call the weak function

Michal Hocko mhocko at kernel.org
Thu Jul 27 23:01:23 AEST 2017


On Thu 27-07-17 11:48:26, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> For ppc64, we want to call this function when we are not running as guest.

What does this mean?

> Also, if we failed to allocate hugepages, let the user know.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/hugetlb.h | 1 +
>  mm/hugetlb.c            | 5 ++++-
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> index 0ed8e41aaf11..8bbbd37ab105 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> @@ -358,6 +358,7 @@ int huge_add_to_page_cache(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
>  			pgoff_t idx);
>  
>  /* arch callback */
> +int __init __alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h);
>  int __init alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h);
>  
>  void __init hugetlb_bad_size(void);
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index bc48ee783dd9..a3a7a7e6339e 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -2083,7 +2083,9 @@ struct page *alloc_huge_page_noerr(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  	return page;
>  }
>  
> -int __weak alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h)
> +int alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h)
> +	__attribute__ ((weak, alias("__alloc_bootmem_huge_page")));
> +int __alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h)
>  {
>  	struct huge_bootmem_page *m;
>  	int nr_nodes, node;
> @@ -2104,6 +2106,7 @@ int __weak alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h)
>  			goto found;
>  		}
>  	}
> +	pr_info("Failed to allocate hugepage of size %ld\n", huge_page_size(h));
>  	return 0;
>  
>  found:
> -- 
> 2.13.3
> 
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs


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