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[David Rientjes via Linuxppc-dev]

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On Thu, 28 Jan 2016, David Rientjes wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Jan 2016, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> 
> > Indeed, I only touched the identity mapping and dump stack.
> > The question is do we really want to change free_init_pages as well?
> > The unmapping during runtime causes significant overhead, but the
> > unmapping after init imposes almost no runtime overhead. Of course,
> > things get fishy now as what is enabled and what not.
> > 
> > Kconfig after my patch "mm/debug_pagealloc: Ask users for default setting 
> > of debug_pagealloc"
> > (in mm) now states
> > snip
> > By default this option will have a small overhead, e.g. by not
> > allowing the kernel mapping to be backed by large pages on some
> > architectures. Even bigger overhead comes when the debugging is
> > enabled by DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT or the debug_pagealloc
> > command line parameter.
> > snip
> > 
> > So I am tempted to NOT change free_init_pages, but the x86 maintainers
> > can certainly decide differently. Ingo, Thomas, H. Peter, please advise.
> > 
> 
> I'm sorry, but I thought the discussion of the previous version of the 
> patchset led to deciding that all CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC behavior would be 
> controlled by being enabled on the commandline and checked with 
> debug_pagealloc_enabled().
> 
> I don't think we should have a CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC that does some stuff 
> and then a commandline parameter or CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT 
> to enable more stuff.  It should either be all enabled by the commandline 
> (or config option) or split into a separate entity.  
> CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_LIGHT and CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC would be fine, but 
> the current state is very confusing about what is being done and what 
> isn't.
> 

Ping?
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[David Rientjes via Linuxppc-dev]

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On Thu, 28 Jan 2016, Christian Borntraeger wrote:

> Indeed, I only touched the identity mapping and dump stack.
> The question is do we really want to change free_init_pages as well?
> The unmapping during runtime causes significant overhead, but the
> unmapping after init imposes almost no runtime overhead. Of course,
> things get fishy now as what is enabled and what not.
> 
> Kconfig after my patch "mm/debug_pagealloc: Ask users for default setting of 
> debug_pagealloc"
> (in mm) now states
> snip
> By default this option will have a small overhead, e.g. by not
> allowing the kernel mapping to be backed by large pages on some
> architectures. Even bigger overhead comes when the debugging is
> enabled by DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT or the debug_pagealloc
> command line parameter.
> snip
> 
> So I am tempted to NOT change free_init_pages, but the x86 maintainers
> can certainly decide differently. Ingo, Thomas, H. Peter, please advise.
> 

I'm sorry, but I thought the discussion of the previous version of the 
patchset led to deciding that all CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC behavior would be 
controlled by being enabled on the commandline and checked with 
debug_pagealloc_enabled().

I don't think we should have a CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC that does some stuff 
and then a commandline parameter or CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT 
to enable more stuff.  It should either be all enabled by the commandline 
(or config option) or split into a separate entity.  
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_LIGHT and CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC would be fine, but 
the current state is very confusing about what is being done and what 
isn't.

It also wouldn't hurt to enumerate what is enabled and what isn't enabled 
in the Kconfig entry.
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On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Christian Borntraeger wrote:

> We can use debug_pagealloc_enabled() to check if we can map
> the identity mapping with 2MB pages. We can also add the state
> into the dump_stack output.
> 
> The patch does not touch the code for the 1GB pages, which ignored
> CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. Do we need to fence this as well?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger 
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c |  5 ++---
>  arch/x86/mm/init.c  |  7 ---
>  arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c  | 14 --
>  3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
> index 9c30acf..32e5699 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
> @@ -265,9 +265,8 @@ int __die(const char *str, struct pt_regs *regs, long err)
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>   printk("SMP ");
>  #endif
> -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> - printk("DEBUG_PAGEALLOC ");
> -#endif
> + if (debug_pagealloc_enabled())
> + printk("DEBUG_PAGEALLOC ");
>  #ifdef CONFIG_KASAN
>   printk("KASAN");
>  #endif
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
> index 493f541..39823fd 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
> @@ -150,13 +150,14 @@ static int page_size_mask;
>  
>  static void __init probe_page_size_mask(void)
>  {
> -#if !defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC) && !defined(CONFIG_KMEMCHECK)
> +#if !defined(CONFIG_KMEMCHECK)
>   /*
> -  * For CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, identity mapping will use small pages.
> +  * For CONFIG_KMEMCHECK or pagealloc debugging, identity mapping will
> +  * use small pages.
>* This will simplify cpa(), which otherwise needs to support splitting
>* large pages into small in interrupt context, etc.
>*/
> - if (cpu_has_pse)
> + if (cpu_has_pse && !debug_pagealloc_enabled())
>   page_size_mask |= 1 << PG_LEVEL_2M;
>  #endif
>  

I would have thought free_init_pages() would be modified to use 
debug_pagealloc_enabled() as well?
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On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Christian Borntraeger wrote:

> We can use debug_pagealloc_enabled() to check if we can map
> the identity mapping with 1MB/2GB pages as well as to print
> the current setting in dump_stack.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger 
> Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens 

Acked-by: David Rientjes 
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