From 3d060856adfc59afb9d029c233141334cfaba418 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Tatashin Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 15:59:24 -0700 Subject: mm: initialize deferred pages with interrupts enabled Initializing struct pages is a long task and keeping interrupts disabled for the duration of this operation introduces a number of problems. 1. jiffies are not updated for long period of time, and thus incorrect time is reported. See proposed solution and discussion here: lkml/20200311123848.118638-1-shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com 2. It prevents farther improving deferred page initialization by allowing intra-node multi-threading. We are keeping interrupts disabled to solve a rather theoretical problem that was never observed in real world (See 3a2d7fa8a3d5). Let's keep interrupts enabled. In case we ever encounter a scenario where an interrupt thread wants to allocate large amount of memory this early in boot we can deal with that by growing zone (see deferred_grow_zone()) by the needed amount before starting deferred_init_memmap() threads. Before: [ 1.232459] node 0 initialised, 12058412 pages in 1ms After: [ 1.632580] node 0 initialised, 12051227 pages in 436ms Fixes: 3a2d7fa8a3d5 ("mm: disable interrupts while initializing deferred pages") Reported-by: Shile Zhang Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Dan Williams Cc: James Morris Cc: Kirill Tkhai Cc: Sasha Levin Cc: Yiqian Wei Cc: [4.17+] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200403140952.17177-3-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mmzone.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/mmzone.h') diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index cd8bd5f90552..2f79ff4477ba 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -680,6 +680,8 @@ typedef struct pglist_data { /* * Must be held any time you expect node_start_pfn, * node_present_pages, node_spanned_pages or nr_zones to stay constant. + * Also synchronizes pgdat->first_deferred_pfn during deferred page + * init. * * pgdat_resize_lock() and pgdat_resize_unlock() are provided to * manipulate node_size_lock without checking for CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG -- cgit