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[v4,03/21] mm/hugetlb: Introduce a new config HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP

Message ID 20201113105952.11638-4-songmuchun@bytedance.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb page | expand

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Muchun Song Nov. 13, 2020, 10:59 a.m. UTC
The purpose of introducing HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP is to configure
whether to enable the feature of freeing unused vmemmap associated
with HugeTLB pages. Now only support x86.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
---
 arch/x86/mm/init_64.c |  2 +-
 fs/Kconfig            | 14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Mike Kravetz Nov. 18, 2020, 10:38 p.m. UTC | #1
On 11/13/20 2:59 AM, Muchun Song wrote:
> The purpose of introducing HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP is to configure
> whether to enable the feature of freeing unused vmemmap associated
> with HugeTLB pages. Now only support x86.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/mm/init_64.c |  2 +-
>  fs/Kconfig            | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> index 0a45f062826e..0435bee2e172 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> @@ -1225,7 +1225,7 @@ static struct kcore_list kcore_vsyscall;
>  
>  static void __init register_page_bootmem_info(void)
>  {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> +#if defined(CONFIG_NUMA) || defined(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP)
>  	int i;
>  
>  	for_each_online_node(i)
> diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
> index 976e8b9033c4..67e1bc99574f 100644
> --- a/fs/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/Kconfig
> @@ -245,6 +245,20 @@ config HUGETLBFS
>  config HUGETLB_PAGE
>  	def_bool HUGETLBFS
>  
> +config HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
> +	def_bool HUGETLB_PAGE
> +	depends on X86
> +	depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
> +	depends on HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
> +	help
> +	  When using SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, the system can save up some memory

Should that read,

	When using HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP, ...

as the help message is for this config option.
Muchun Song Nov. 19, 2020, 2:57 a.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 6:39 AM Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/13/20 2:59 AM, Muchun Song wrote:
> > The purpose of introducing HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP is to configure
> > whether to enable the feature of freeing unused vmemmap associated
> > with HugeTLB pages. Now only support x86.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/mm/init_64.c |  2 +-
> >  fs/Kconfig            | 14 ++++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> > index 0a45f062826e..0435bee2e172 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> > @@ -1225,7 +1225,7 @@ static struct kcore_list kcore_vsyscall;
> >
> >  static void __init register_page_bootmem_info(void)
> >  {
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> > +#if defined(CONFIG_NUMA) || defined(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP)
> >       int i;
> >
> >       for_each_online_node(i)
> > diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
> > index 976e8b9033c4..67e1bc99574f 100644
> > --- a/fs/Kconfig
> > +++ b/fs/Kconfig
> > @@ -245,6 +245,20 @@ config HUGETLBFS
> >  config HUGETLB_PAGE
> >       def_bool HUGETLBFS
> >
> > +config HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
> > +     def_bool HUGETLB_PAGE
> > +     depends on X86
> > +     depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
> > +     depends on HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
> > +     help
> > +       When using SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, the system can save up some memory
>
> Should that read,
>
>         When using HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP, ...
>
> as the help message is for this config option.

Got it. Thanks

>
> --
> Mike Kravetz
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diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index 0a45f062826e..0435bee2e172 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -1225,7 +1225,7 @@  static struct kcore_list kcore_vsyscall;
 
 static void __init register_page_bootmem_info(void)
 {
-#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
+#if defined(CONFIG_NUMA) || defined(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP)
 	int i;
 
 	for_each_online_node(i)
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index 976e8b9033c4..67e1bc99574f 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -245,6 +245,20 @@  config HUGETLBFS
 config HUGETLB_PAGE
 	def_bool HUGETLBFS
 
+config HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
+	def_bool HUGETLB_PAGE
+	depends on X86
+	depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
+	depends on HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
+	help
+	  When using SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, the system can save up some memory
+	  from pre-allocated HugeTLB pages when they are not used. 6 pages
+	  per 2MB HugeTLB page and 4094 per 1GB HugeTLB page.
+
+	  When the pages are going to be used or freed up, the vmemmap array
+	  representing that range needs to be remapped again and the pages
+	  we discarded earlier need to be rellocated again.
+
 config MEMFD_CREATE
 	def_bool TMPFS || HUGETLBFS