[PATCH V3 2/3] mm/sparsemem: Enable vmem_altmap support in vmemmap_alloc_block_buf()

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Tue Mar 31 16:09:46 AEDT 2020


There are many instances where vmemap allocation is often switched between
regular memory and device memory just based on whether altmap is available
or not. vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() is used in various platforms to allocate
vmemmap mappings. Lets also enable it to handle altmap based device memory
allocation along with existing regular memory allocations. This will help
in avoiding the altmap based allocation switch in many places.

While here also implement a regular memory allocation fallback mechanism
when the first preferred device memory allocation fails. This will ensure
preserving the existing semantics on powerpc platform. To summarize there
are three different methods to call vmemmap_alloc_block_buf().

(., NULL,   false) /* Allocate from system RAM */
(., altmap, false) /* Allocate from altmap without any fallback */
(., altmap, true)  /* Allocate from altmap with fallback (system RAM) */

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto at kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp at alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: x86 at kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-mm at kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org

Suggested-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c       |  3 ++-
 arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c | 10 +++++-----
 arch/x86/mm/init_64.c     |  6 ++----
 include/linux/mm.h        |  3 ++-
 mm/sparse-vmemmap.c       | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 5 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 2feed38106d6..81f88c88484f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -1063,7 +1063,8 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node,
 		if (pmd_none(READ_ONCE(*pmdp))) {
 			void *p = NULL;
 
-			p = vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(PMD_SIZE, node);
+			p = vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(PMD_SIZE, node,
+						    NULL, false);
 			if (!p)
 				return -ENOMEM;
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
index 4002ced3596f..f67f2b909fe5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
@@ -226,12 +226,12 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node,
 		 * fall back to system memory if the altmap allocation fail.
 		 */
 		if (altmap && !altmap_cross_boundary(altmap, start, page_size)) {
-			p = altmap_alloc_block_buf(page_size, altmap);
-			if (!p)
-				pr_debug("altmap block allocation failed, falling back to system memory");
+			p = vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(page_size, node,
+						    altmap, true);
+		} else {
+			p = vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(page_size, node,
+						    NULL, false);
 		}
-		if (!p)
-			p = vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(page_size, node);
 		if (!p)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index c22677571619..35cc0c9d9578 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -1444,10 +1444,8 @@ static int __meminit vmemmap_populate_hugepages(unsigned long start,
 		if (pmd_none(*pmd)) {
 			void *p;
 
-			if (altmap)
-				p = altmap_alloc_block_buf(PMD_SIZE, altmap);
-			else
-				p = vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(PMD_SIZE, node);
+			p = vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(PMD_SIZE, node,
+						    altmap, false);
 			if (p) {
 				pte_t entry;
 
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 955be0331833..b8d3d90c9c47 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2991,7 +2991,8 @@ pte_t *vmemmap_pte_populate(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, int node,
 			    struct vmem_altmap *altmap);
 void *vmemmap_alloc_block(unsigned long size, int node);
 struct vmem_altmap;
-void *vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(unsigned long size, int node);
+void *vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(unsigned long size, int node,
+			      struct vmem_altmap *altmap, bool sysram_fallback);
 void *altmap_alloc_block_buf(unsigned long size, struct vmem_altmap *altmap);
 void vmemmap_verify(pte_t *, int, unsigned long, unsigned long);
 int vmemmap_populate_basepages(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
index a407abc9b46c..ff5adc233e38 100644
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -71,10 +71,31 @@ void * __meminit vmemmap_alloc_block(unsigned long size, int node)
 }
 
 /* need to make sure size is all the same during early stage */
-void * __meminit vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(unsigned long size, int node)
+void * __meminit vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(unsigned long size, int node,
+					 struct vmem_altmap *altmap,
+					 bool sysram_fallback)
 {
-	void *ptr = sparse_buffer_alloc(size);
+	void *ptr;
 
+	/*
+	 * There is no point in asking for sysram fallback
+	 * without an altmap request to begin with. So just
+	 * warn here to catch potential call sites that may
+	 * be violating this.
+	 */
+	WARN_ON(!altmap && sysram_fallback);
+
+	if (altmap) {
+		ptr = altmap_alloc_block_buf(size, altmap);
+		if (ptr)
+			return ptr;
+		pr_debug("altmap block allocation failed\n");
+		if (!sysram_fallback)
+			return NULL;
+		pr_debug("falling back to system memory\n");
+	}
+
+	ptr = sparse_buffer_alloc(size);
 	if (!ptr)
 		ptr = vmemmap_alloc_block(size, node);
 	return ptr;
@@ -148,10 +169,7 @@ pte_t * __meminit vmemmap_pte_populate(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, int node,
 		pte_t entry;
 		void *p;
 
-		if (altmap)
-			p = altmap_alloc_block_buf(PAGE_SIZE, altmap);
-		else
-			p = vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(PAGE_SIZE, node);
+		p = vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(PAGE_SIZE, node, altmap, false);
 		if (!p)
 			return NULL;
 		entry = pfn_pte(__pa(p) >> PAGE_SHIFT, PAGE_KERNEL);
-- 
2.20.1



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