On 2020-10-16 11:56, Sudarshan Rajagopalan wrote:
Hello Will, Catalin,
Did you have a chance to review this patch? It is reviewed by others and
haven't seen any Nacks. This patch will be useful to have so that memory
hotremove doesn't fail when such PMD_SIZE pages aren't available.. which
is usually the case in low RAM devices.
When section mappings are enabled, we allocate vmemmap pages from
physically continuous memory of size PMD_SIZE using
vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(). Section mappings are good to reduce TLB
pressure. But when system is highly fragmented and memory blocks are
being hot-added at runtime, its possible that such physically
continuous
memory allocations can fail. Rather than failing the memory hot-add
procedure, add a fallback option to allocate vmemmap pages from
discontinuous pages using vmemmap_populate_basepages().
Signed-off-by: Sudarshan Rajagopalan <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Price <[email protected]>
---
arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 75df62fea1b6..44486fd0e883 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -1121,8 +1121,11 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long
start, unsigned long end, int node,
void *p = NULL;
p = vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(PMD_SIZE, node, altmap);
- if (!p)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ if (!p) {
+ if (vmemmap_populate_basepages(addr, next,
node, altmap))
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ continue;
+ }
pmd_set_huge(pmdp, __pa(p), __pgprot(PROT_SECT_NORMAL));
} else
--
Sudarshan
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