From f682a97a00591def7cefbb5003dc04045028e405 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Duyck Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 15:07:45 -0700 Subject: mm: provide kernel parameter to allow disabling page init poisoning Patch series "Address issues slowing persistent memory initialization", v5. The main thing this patch set achieves is that it allows us to initialize each node worth of persistent memory independently. As a result we reduce page init time by about 2 minutes because instead of taking 30 to 40 seconds per node and going through each node one at a time, we process all 4 nodes in parallel in the case of a 12TB persistent memory setup spread evenly over 4 nodes. This patch (of 3): On systems with a large amount of memory it can take a significant amount of time to initialize all of the page structs with the PAGE_POISON_PATTERN value. I have seen it take over 2 minutes to initialize a system with over 12TB of RAM. In order to work around the issue I had to disable CONFIG_DEBUG_VM and then the boot time returned to something much more reasonable as the arch_add_memory call completed in milliseconds versus seconds. However in doing that I had to disable all of the other VM debugging on the system. In order to work around a kernel that might have CONFIG_DEBUG_VM enabled on a system that has a large amount of memory I have added a new kernel parameter named "vm_debug" that can be set to "-" in order to disable it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180925201921.3576.84239.stgit@localhost.localdomain Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/sparse.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/sparse.c') diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c index 10b07eea9a6e..67ad061f7fb8 100644 --- a/mm/sparse.c +++ b/mm/sparse.c @@ -696,13 +696,11 @@ int __meminit sparse_add_one_section(struct pglist_data *pgdat, goto out; } -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM /* * Poison uninitialized struct pages in order to catch invalid flags * combinations. */ - memset(memmap, PAGE_POISON_PATTERN, sizeof(struct page) * PAGES_PER_SECTION); -#endif + page_init_poison(memmap, sizeof(struct page) * PAGES_PER_SECTION); section_mark_present(ms); sparse_init_one_section(ms, section_nr, memmap, usemap); -- cgit