Patch series "PageFlags cleanups".
We have now successfully removed all of the uses of some of the PageFlags
from the kernel, but there's nothing to stop somebody reintroducing them.
By splitting out FOLIO_FLAGS from PAGEFLAGS, we can stop defining the old
flags; and we do that in some of the later patches.
After doing this, I realised that dump_page() was living dangerously; we
could end up calling folio_test_foo() on a pointer which no longer pointed
to a folio (as dump_page() is not necessarily called when the caller has a
reference to the page). So I fixed that up.
And then I realised that this was the key to making dump_page() take a
const argument, which means we can constify the page flags testing, which
means we can remove more cast-away-the-const bad code.
And here's where I ended up.
This patch (of 8):
We've progressed far enough with the folio transition that some flags are
now no longer checked on pages, but only on folios. To prevent new users
appearing, prepare to only define the folio versions of the flag
test/set/clear.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240227192337.757313-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240227192337.757313-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
hugetlb parallelization depends on PADATA, and PADATA depends on SMP.
PADATA consists of two distinct functionality: One part is
padata_do_multithreaded which disregards order and simply divides tasks
into several groups for parallel execution. Hugetlb init parallelization
depends on padata_do_multithreaded.
The other part is composed of a set of APIs that, while handling data in
an out-of-order parallel manner, can eventually return the data with
ordered sequence. Currently Only `crypto/pcrypt.c` use them.
All users of PADATA of non-SMP case currently only use
padata_do_multithreaded. It is easy to implement a serial one in
include/linux/padata.h. And it is not necessary to implement another
functionality unless the only user of crypto/pcrypt.c does not depend on
SMP in the future.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240222140422.393911-6-gang.li@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Gang Li <ligang.bdlg@bytedance.com>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "hugetlb: parallelize hugetlb page init on boot", v6.
Introduction
------------
Hugetlb initialization during boot takes up a considerable amount of time.
For instance, on a 2TB system, initializing 1,800 1GB huge pages takes
1-2 seconds out of 10 seconds. Initializing 11,776 1GB pages on a 12TB
Intel host takes more than 1 minute[1]. This is a noteworthy figure.
Inspired by [2] and [3], hugetlb initialization can also be accelerated
through parallelization. Kernel already has infrastructure like
padata_do_multithreaded, this patch uses it to achieve effective results
by minimal modifications.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/783f8bac-55b8-5b95-eb6a-11a583675000@google.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20200527173608.2885243-1-daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230906112605.2286994-1-usama.arif@bytedance.com/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/76becfc1-e609-e3e8-2966-4053143170b6@google.com/
max_threads
-----------
This patch use `padata_do_multithreaded` like this:
```
job.max_threads = num_node_state(N_MEMORY) * multiplier;
padata_do_multithreaded(&job);
```
To fully utilize the CPU, the number of parallel threads needs to be
carefully considered. `max_threads = num_node_state(N_MEMORY)` does not
fully utilize the CPU, so we need to multiply it by a multiplier.
Tests below indicate that a multiplier of 2 significantly improves
performance, and although larger values also provide improvements, the
gains are marginal.
multiplier 1 2 3 4 5
------------ ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
256G 2node 358ms 215ms 157ms 134ms 126ms
2T 4node 979ms 679ms 543ms 489ms 481ms
50G 2node 71ms 44ms 37ms 30ms 31ms
Therefore, choosing 2 as the multiplier strikes a good balance between
enhancing parallel processing capabilities and maintaining efficient
resource management.
Test result
-----------
test case no patch(ms) patched(ms) saved
------------------- -------------- ------------- --------
256c2T(4 node) 1G 4745 2024 57.34%
128c1T(2 node) 1G 3358 1712 49.02%
12T 1G 77000 18300 76.23%
256c2T(4 node) 2M 3336 1051 68.52%
128c1T(2 node) 2M 1943 716 63.15%
This patch (of 8):
The readability of `hugetlb_hstate_alloc_pages` is poor. By cleaning the
code, its readability can be improved, facilitating future modifications.
This patch extracts two functions to reduce the complexity of
`hugetlb_hstate_alloc_pages` and has no functional changes.
- hugetlb_hstate_alloc_pages_node_specific() to handle iterates through
each online node and performs allocation if necessary.
- hugetlb_hstate_alloc_pages_report() report error during allocation.
And the value of h->max_huge_pages is updated accordingly.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240222140422.393911-1-gang.li@linux.dev
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240222140422.393911-2-gang.li@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Gang Li <ligang.bdlg@bytedance.com>
Tested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
do_numa_page() is reading from the same page table entry, twice, while
holding the page table lock: once while checking that the pte hasn't
changed, and again in order to modify the pte.
Instead, just read the pte once, and save it in the same old_pte variable
that already exists. This has no effect on behavior, other than to
provide a tiny potential improvement to performance, by avoiding the
redundant memory read (which the compiler cannot elide, due to
READ_ONCE()).
Also improve the associated comments nearby.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240228034151.459370-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The synchronization here is to ensure the ordering of freeing of a module
init so that it happens before W+X checking. It is worth noting it is not
that the freeing was not happening, it is just that our sanity checkers
raced against the permission checkers which assume init memory is already
gone.
Commit 1a7b7d9220 ("modules: Use vmalloc special flag") moved calling
do_free_init() into a global workqueue instead of relying on it being
called through call_rcu(..., do_free_init), which used to allowed us call
do_free_init() asynchronously after the end of a subsequent grace period.
The move to a global workqueue broke the gaurantees for code which needed
to be sure the do_free_init() would complete with rcu_barrier(). To fix
this callers which used to rely on rcu_barrier() must now instead use
flush_work(&init_free_wq).
Without this fix, we still could encounter false positive reports in W+X
checking since the rcu_barrier() here can not ensure the ordering now.
Even worse, the rcu_barrier() can introduce significant delay. Eric
Chanudet reported that the rcu_barrier introduces ~0.1s delay on a
PREEMPT_RT kernel.
[ 0.291444] Freeing unused kernel memory: 5568K
[ 0.402442] Run /sbin/init as init process
With this fix, the above delay can be eliminated.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240227023546.2490667-1-changbin.du@huawei.com
Fixes: 1a7b7d9220 ("modules: Use vmalloc special flag")
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Eric Chanudet <echanude@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Xiaoyi Su <suxiaoyi@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Gang Li
Chengming Zhou
John Hubbard
Richard Chang
Huang Shijie
Changbin Du