mm: make alloc_contig_range handle free hugetlb pages
alloc_contig_range will fail if it ever sees a HugeTLB page within the
range we are trying to allocate, even when that page is free and can be
easily reallocated.
This has proved to be problematic for some users of alloc_contic_range,
e.g: CMA and virtio-mem, where those would fail the call even when those
pages lay in ZONE_MOVABLE and are free.
We can do better by trying to replace such page.
Free hugepages are tricky to handle so as to no userspace application
notices disruption, we need to replace the current free hugepage with a
new one.
In order to do that, a new function called alloc_and_dissolve_huge_page is
introduced. This function will first try to get a new fresh hugepage, and
if it succeeds, it will replace the old one in the free hugepage pool.
The free page replacement is done under hugetlb_lock, so no external users
of hugetlb will notice the change. To allocate the new huge page, we use
alloc_buddy_huge_page(), so we do not have to deal with any counters, and
prep_new_huge_page() is not called. This is valulable because in case we
need to free the new page, we only need to call __free_pages().
Once we know that the page to be replaced is a genuine 0-refcounted huge
page, we remove the old page from the freelist by remove_hugetlb_page().
Then, we can call __prep_new_huge_page() and
__prep_account_new_huge_page() for the new huge page to properly
initialize it and increment the hstate->nr_huge_pages counter (previously
decremented by remove_hugetlb_page()). Once done, the page is enqueued by
enqueue_huge_page() and it is ready to be used.
There is one tricky case when page's refcount is 0 because it is in the
process of being released. A missing PageHugeFreed bit will tell us that
freeing is in flight so we retry after dropping the hugetlb_lock. The
race window should be small and the next retry should make a forward
progress.
E.g:
CPU0 CPU1
free_huge_page() isolate_or_dissolve_huge_page
PageHuge() == T
alloc_and_dissolve_huge_page
alloc_buddy_huge_page()
spin_lock_irq(hugetlb_lock)
// PageHuge() && !PageHugeFreed &&
// !PageCount()
spin_unlock_irq(hugetlb_lock)
spin_lock_irq(hugetlb_lock)
1) update_and_free_page
PageHuge() == F
__free_pages()
2) enqueue_huge_page
SetPageHugeFreed()
spin_unlock_irq(&hugetlb_lock)
spin_lock_irq(hugetlb_lock)
1) PageHuge() == F (freed by case#1 from CPU0)
2) PageHuge() == T
PageHugeFreed() == T
- proceed with replacing the page
In the case above we retry as the window race is quite small and we have
high chances to succeed next time.
With regard to the allocation, we restrict it to the node the page belongs
to with __GFP_THISNODE, meaning we do not fallback on other node's zones.
Note that gigantic hugetlb pages are fenced off since there is a cyclic
dependency between them and alloc_contig_range.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210419075413.1064-6-osalvador@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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