From b92df1de5d289c0b5d653e72414bf0850b8511e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Burton Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:44:53 -0800 Subject: mm: page_alloc: skip over regions of invalid pfns where possible When using a sparse memory model memmap_init_zone() when invoked with the MEMMAP_EARLY context will skip over pages which aren't valid - ie. which aren't in a populated region of the sparse memory map. However if the memory map is extremely sparse then it can spend a long time linearly checking each PFN in a large non-populated region of the memory map & skipping it in turn. When CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP is enabled, we have sufficient information to quickly discover the next valid PFN given an invalid one by searching through the list of memory regions & skipping forwards to the first PFN covered by the memory region to the right of the non-populated region. Implement this in order to speed up memmap_init_zone() for systems with extremely sparse memory maps. James said "I have tested this patch on a virtual model of a Samurai CPU with a sparse memory map. The kernel boot time drops from 109 to 62 seconds. " Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161125185518.29885-1-paul.burton@imgtec.com Signed-off-by: Paul Burton Tested-by: James Hartley Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/memblock.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/memblock.h') diff --git a/include/linux/memblock.h b/include/linux/memblock.h index 5b759c9acf97..38bcf00cbed3 100644 --- a/include/linux/memblock.h +++ b/include/linux/memblock.h @@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ int memblock_search_pfn_nid(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long *start_pfn, unsigned long *end_pfn); void __next_mem_pfn_range(int *idx, int nid, unsigned long *out_start_pfn, unsigned long *out_end_pfn, int *out_nid); +unsigned long memblock_next_valid_pfn(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long max_pfn); /** * for_each_mem_pfn_range - early memory pfn range iterator -- cgit