Hi Baoquan,
>
> In sparse_init(), two temporary pointer arrays, usemap_map and map_map
> are allocated with the size of NR_MEM_SECTIONS. They are used to store
> each memory section's usemap and mem map if marked as present. With
> the help of these two arrays, continuous memory chunk is allocated for
> usemap and memmap for memory sections on one node. This avoids too many
> memory fragmentations. Like below diagram, '1' indicates the present
> memory section, '0' means absent one. The number 'n' could be much
> smaller than NR_MEM_SECTIONS on most of systems.
>
> |1|1|1|1|0|0|0|0|1|1|0|0|...|1|0||1|0|...|1||0|1|...|0|
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 0 1 2 3 4 5 i i+1 n-1 n
>
> If fail to populate the page tables to map one section's memmap, its
> ->section_mem_map will be cleared finally to indicate that it's not present.
> After use, these two arrays will be released at the end of sparse_init().
>
> In 4-level paging mode, each array costs 4M which can be ignorable. While
> in 5-level paging, they costs 256M each, 512M altogether. Kdump kernel
> Usually only reserves very few memory, e.g 256M. So, even thouth they are
> temporarily allocated, still not acceptable.
>
> In fact, there's no need to allocate them with the size of NR_MEM_SECTIONS.
> Since the ->section_mem_map clearing has been deferred to the last, the
> number of present memory sections are kept the same during sparse_init()
> until we finally clear out the memory section's ->section_mem_map if its
> usemap or memmap is not correctly handled. Thus in the middle whenever
> for_each_present_section_nr() loop is taken, the i-th present memory
> section is always the same one.
>
> Here only allocate usemap_map and map_map with the size of
> 'nr_present_sections'. For the i-th present memory section, install its
> usemap and memmap to usemap_map[i] and mam_map[i] during allocation. Then
> in the last for_each_present_section_nr() loop which clears the failed
> memory section's ->section_mem_map, fetch usemap and memmap from
> usemap_map[] and map_map[] array and set them into mem_section[]
> accordingly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com>
> ---
> mm/sparse-vmemmap.c | 8 +++++---
> mm/sparse.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
> 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
> index 640e68f8324b..f83723a49e47 100644
> --- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
> +++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
> @@ -281,6 +281,7 @@ void __init sparse_mem_maps_populate_node(struct page
> **map_map,
> unsigned long pnum;
> unsigned long size = sizeof(struct page) * PAGES_PER_SECTION;
> void *vmemmap_buf_start;
> + int i = 0;
>
> size = ALIGN(size, PMD_SIZE);
> vmemmap_buf_start = __earlyonly_bootmem_alloc(nodeid, size * map_count,
> @@ -291,14 +292,15 @@ void __init sparse_mem_maps_populate_node(struct page
> **map_map,
> vmemmap_buf_end = vmemmap_buf_start + size * map_count;
> }
>
> - for (pnum = pnum_begin; pnum < pnum_end; pnum++) {
> + for (pnum = pnum_begin; pnum < pnum_end && i < map_count; pnum++) {
> struct mem_section *ms;
>
> if (!present_section_nr(pnum))
> continue;
>
> - map_map[pnum] = sparse_mem_map_populate(pnum, nodeid, NULL);
> - if (map_map[pnum])
> + i++;
> + map_map[i-1] = sparse_mem_map_populate(pnum, nodeid, NULL);
> + if (map_map[i-1])
> continue;
> ms = __nr_to_section(pnum);
> pr_err("%s: sparsemem memory map backing failed some memory
> will not be
> available\n",
> diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
> index e9311b44e28a..aafb6d838872 100644
> --- a/mm/sparse.c
> +++ b/mm/sparse.c
> @@ -405,6 +405,7 @@ static void __init sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node(void
> *data,
> unsigned long pnum;
> unsigned long **usemap_map = (unsigned long **)data;
> int size = usemap_size();
> + int i = 0;
>
> usemap = sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_pgdat_section(NODE_DATA(nodeid),
> size * usemap_count);
> @@ -413,12 +414,13 @@ static void __init sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node(void
> *data,
> return;
> }
>
> - for (pnum = pnum_begin; pnum < pnum_end; pnum++) {
> + for (pnum = pnum_begin; pnum < pnum_end && i < usemap_count; pnum++) {
> if (!present_section_nr(pnum))
> continue;
> - usemap_map[pnum] = usemap;
> + usemap_map[i] = usemap;
> usemap += size;
> - check_usemap_section_nr(nodeid, usemap_map[pnum]);
> + check_usemap_section_nr(nodeid, usemap_map[i]);
> + i++;
> }
> }
>
> @@ -447,14 +449,17 @@ void __init sparse_mem_maps_populate_node(struct page
> **map_map,
> void *map;
> unsigned long pnum;
> unsigned long size = sizeof(struct page) * PAGES_PER_SECTION;
> + int i;
>
> map = alloc_remap(nodeid, size * map_count);
> if (map) {
> - for (pnum = pnum_begin; pnum < pnum_end; pnum++) {
> + i = 0;
> + for (pnum = pnum_begin; pnum < pnum_end && i < map_count;
> pnum++) {
> if (!present_section_nr(pnum))
> continue;
> - map_map[pnum] = map;
> + map_map[i] = map;
> map += size;
> + i++;
> }
> return;
> }
> @@ -464,23 +469,27 @@ void __init sparse_mem_maps_populate_node(struct page
> **map_map,
> PAGE_SIZE, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS),
> BOOTMEM_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE, nodeid);
> if (map) {
> - for (pnum = pnum_begin; pnum < pnum_end; pnum++) {
> + i = 0;
> + for (pnum = pnum_begin; pnum < pnum_end && i < map_count;
> pnum++) {
> if (!present_section_nr(pnum))
> continue;
> - map_map[pnum] = map;
> + map_map[i] = map;
> map += size;
> + i++;
> }
> return;
> }
>
> /* fallback */
> - for (pnum = pnum_begin; pnum < pnum_end; pnum++) {
> + i = 0;
> + for (pnum = pnum_begin; pnum < pnum_end && i < map_count; pnum++) {
> struct mem_section *ms;
>
> if (!present_section_nr(pnum))
> continue;
> - map_map[pnum] = sparse_mem_map_populate(pnum, nodeid, NULL);
> - if (map_map[pnum])
> + i++;
> + map_map[i-1] = sparse_mem_map_populate(pnum, nodeid, NULL);
> + if (map_map[i-1])
> continue;
Below statement will look better?
map_map[i] = sparse_mem_map_populate(pnum, nodeid, NULL);
if (map_map[i++])
continue;
> ms = __nr_to_section(pnum);
> pr_err("%s: sparsemem memory map backing failed some memory
> will not be
> available\n",
> @@ -558,6 +567,7 @@ static void __init alloc_usemap_and_memmap(void
> (*alloc_func)
> /* new start, update count etc*/
> nodeid_begin = nodeid;
> pnum_begin = pnum;
> + data += map_count;
> map_count = 1;
> }
> /* ok, last chunk */
> @@ -576,6 +586,7 @@ void __init sparse_init(void)
> unsigned long *usemap;
> unsigned long **usemap_map;
> int size;
> + int i = 0;
> #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER
> int size2;
> struct page **map_map;
> @@ -598,7 +609,7 @@ void __init sparse_init(void)
> * powerpc need to call sparse_init_one_section right after each
> * sparse_early_mem_map_alloc, so allocate usemap_map at first.
> */
> - size = sizeof(unsigned long *) * NR_MEM_SECTIONS;
> + size = sizeof(unsigned long *) * nr_present_sections;
> usemap_map = memblock_virt_alloc(size, 0);
> if (!usemap_map)
> panic("can not allocate usemap_map\n");
> @@ -606,7 +617,7 @@ void __init sparse_init(void)
> (void *)usemap_map);
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER
> - size2 = sizeof(struct page *) * NR_MEM_SECTIONS;
> + size2 = sizeof(struct page *) * nr_present_sections;
> map_map = memblock_virt_alloc(size2, 0);
> if (!map_map)
> panic("can not allocate map_map\n");
> @@ -617,14 +628,15 @@ void __init sparse_init(void)
> for_each_present_section_nr(0, pnum) {
> struct mem_section *ms;
> ms = __nr_to_section(pnum);
> - usemap = usemap_map[pnum];
> + i++;
> + usemap = usemap_map[i-1];
Can try same as above and other places where possible
> if (!usemap) {
> ms->section_mem_map = 0;
> continue;
> }
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER
> - map = map_map[pnum];
> + map = map_map[i-1];
> #else
> map = sparse_early_mem_map_alloc(pnum);
> #endif
> --
> 2.13.6
>
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