On 10.09.19 18:17, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 03:15:58PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> @@ -770,6 +1022,28 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start,
>> unsigned long end, int node,
>> void vmemmap_free(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
>> struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
>> {
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
>> + /*
>> + * FIXME: We should have called remove_pagetable(start, end, true).
>> + * vmemmap and vmalloc virtual range might share intermediate kernel
>> + * page table entries. Removing vmemmap range page table pages here
>> + * can potentially conflict with a concurrent vmalloc() allocation.
>> + *
>> + * This is primarily because vmalloc() does not take init_mm ptl for
>> + * the entire page table walk and it's modification. Instead it just
>> + * takes the lock while allocating and installing page table pages
>> + * via [p4d|pud|pmd|pte]_alloc(). A concurrently vanishing page table
>> + * entry via memory hot remove can cause vmalloc() kernel page table
>> + * walk pointers to be invalid on the fly which can cause corruption
>> + * or worst, a crash.
>> + *
>> + * So free_empty_tables() gets called where vmalloc and vmemmap range
>> + * do not overlap at any intermediate level kernel page table entry.
>> + */
>> + unmap_hotplug_range(start, end, true);
>> + if (!vmalloc_vmemmap_overlap)
>> + free_empty_tables(start, end);
>> +#endif
>> }
>> #endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP */
>
> I wonder whether we could simply ignore the vmemmap freeing altogether,
> just leave it around and not unmap it. This way, we could call
> unmap_kernel_range() for removing the linear map and we save some code.
>
> For the linear map, I think we use just above 2MB of tables for 1GB of
> memory mapped (worst case with 4KB pages we need 512 pte pages). For
> vmemmap we'd use slightly above 2MB for a 64GB hotplugged memory. Do we
> expect such memory to be re-plugged again in the same range? If we do,
> then I shouldn't even bother with removing the vmmemmap.
>
FWIW, I think we should do it cleanly.
> I don't fully understand the use-case for memory hotremove, so any
> additional info would be useful to make a decision here.
>
Especially in virtual environment, hotremove will be relevant. For
physical environments - I have no idea how important that is for ARM.
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Thanks,
David / dhildenb
