On Wed 16-10-19 13:04:53, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> HugeTLB helper alloc_gigantic_page() implements fairly generic allocation
> method where it scans over various zones looking for a large contiguous pfn
> range before trying to allocate it with alloc_contig_range(). Other than
> deriving the requested order from 'struct hstate', there is nothing HugeTLB
> specific in there. This can be made available for general use to allocate
> contiguous memory which could not have been allocated through the buddy
> allocator.
> 
> alloc_gigantic_page() has been split carving out actual allocation method
> which is then made available via new alloc_contig_pages() helper wrapped
> under CONFIG_CONTIG_ALLOC. All references to 'gigantic' have been replaced
> with more generic term 'contig'. Allocated pages here should be freed with
> free_contig_range() or by calling __free_page() on each allocated page.

Do we want to export this to modules? Apart from mostly styling issues
pointed by David this looks fine.

I do agree that a general allocator api belongs to page_alloc.c rather
than force people to invent their own and broken instances.
 
> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.krav...@oracle.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalva...@suse.de>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgor...@techsingularity.net>
> Cc: Mike Rapoport <r...@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>
> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pavel.tatas...@microsoft.com>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <wi...@infradead.org>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <da...@redhat.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khand...@arm.com>

After other issues mentioned by David get resolved you can add
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>

> ---
> This is based on https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11190213/
> 
> Changes from [V5,1/2] mm/hugetlb: Make alloc_gigantic_page()...
> 
> - alloc_contig_page() takes nr_pages instead of order per Michal
> - s/gigantic/contig on all related functions
> 
>  include/linux/gfp.h |  2 +
>  mm/hugetlb.c        | 77 +----------------------------------
>  mm/page_alloc.c     | 97 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
> index fb07b503dc45..1a11d4857027 100644
> --- a/include/linux/gfp.h
> +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
> @@ -589,6 +589,8 @@ static inline bool pm_suspended_storage(void)
>  /* The below functions must be run on a range from a single zone. */
>  extern int alloc_contig_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
>                             unsigned migratetype, gfp_t gfp_mask);
> +extern struct page *alloc_contig_pages(unsigned long nr_pages, gfp_t 
> gfp_mask,
> +                                    int nid, nodemask_t *nodemask);
>  #endif
>  void free_contig_range(unsigned long pfn, unsigned int nr_pages);
>  
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 985ee15eb04b..a5c2c880af27 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -1023,85 +1023,12 @@ static void free_gigantic_page(struct page *page, 
> unsigned int order)
>  }
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_CONTIG_ALLOC
> -static int __alloc_gigantic_page(unsigned long start_pfn,
> -                             unsigned long nr_pages, gfp_t gfp_mask)
> -{
> -     unsigned long end_pfn = start_pfn + nr_pages;
> -     return alloc_contig_range(start_pfn, end_pfn, MIGRATE_MOVABLE,
> -                               gfp_mask);
> -}
> -
> -static bool pfn_range_valid_gigantic(struct zone *z,
> -                     unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
> -{
> -     unsigned long i, end_pfn = start_pfn + nr_pages;
> -     struct page *page;
> -
> -     for (i = start_pfn; i < end_pfn; i++) {
> -             page = pfn_to_online_page(i);
> -             if (!page)
> -                     return false;
> -
> -             if (page_zone(page) != z)
> -                     return false;
> -
> -             if (PageReserved(page))
> -                     return false;
> -
> -             if (page_count(page) > 0)
> -                     return false;
> -
> -             if (PageHuge(page))
> -                     return false;
> -     }
> -
> -     return true;
> -}
> -
> -static bool zone_spans_last_pfn(const struct zone *zone,
> -                     unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
> -{
> -     unsigned long last_pfn = start_pfn + nr_pages - 1;
> -     return zone_spans_pfn(zone, last_pfn);
> -}
> -
>  static struct page *alloc_gigantic_page(struct hstate *h, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>               int nid, nodemask_t *nodemask)
>  {
> -     unsigned int order = huge_page_order(h);
> -     unsigned long nr_pages = 1 << order;
> -     unsigned long ret, pfn, flags;
> -     struct zonelist *zonelist;
> -     struct zone *zone;
> -     struct zoneref *z;
> -
> -     zonelist = node_zonelist(nid, gfp_mask);
> -     for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist, gfp_zone(gfp_mask), 
> nodemask) {
> -             spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
> +     unsigned long nr_pages = 1UL << huge_page_order(h);
>  
> -             pfn = ALIGN(zone->zone_start_pfn, nr_pages);
> -             while (zone_spans_last_pfn(zone, pfn, nr_pages)) {
> -                     if (pfn_range_valid_gigantic(zone, pfn, nr_pages)) {
> -                             /*
> -                              * We release the zone lock here because
> -                              * alloc_contig_range() will also lock the zone
> -                              * at some point. If there's an allocation
> -                              * spinning on this lock, it may win the race
> -                              * and cause alloc_contig_range() to fail...
> -                              */
> -                             spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
> -                             ret = __alloc_gigantic_page(pfn, nr_pages, 
> gfp_mask);
> -                             if (!ret)
> -                                     return pfn_to_page(pfn);
> -                             spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
> -                     }
> -                     pfn += nr_pages;
> -             }
> -
> -             spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
> -     }
> -
> -     return NULL;
> +     return alloc_contig_pages(nr_pages, gfp_mask, nid, nodemask);
>  }
>  
>  static void prep_new_huge_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page, int nid);
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index cd1dd0712624..1e084d6acf2f 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -8499,6 +8499,103 @@ int alloc_contig_range(unsigned long start, unsigned 
> long end,
>                               pfn_max_align_up(end), migratetype);
>       return ret;
>  }
> +
> +static int __alloc_contig_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
> +                             unsigned long nr_pages, gfp_t gfp_mask)
> +{
> +     unsigned long end_pfn = start_pfn + nr_pages;
> +
> +     return alloc_contig_range(start_pfn, end_pfn, MIGRATE_MOVABLE,
> +                               gfp_mask);
> +}
> +
> +static bool pfn_range_valid_contig(struct zone *z, unsigned long start_pfn,
> +                                unsigned long nr_pages)
> +{
> +     unsigned long i, end_pfn = start_pfn + nr_pages;
> +     struct page *page;
> +
> +     for (i = start_pfn; i < end_pfn; i++) {
> +             page = pfn_to_online_page(i);
> +             if (!page)
> +                     return false;
> +
> +             if (page_zone(page) != z)
> +                     return false;
> +
> +             if (PageReserved(page))
> +                     return false;
> +
> +             if (page_count(page) > 0)
> +                     return false;
> +
> +             if (PageHuge(page))
> +                     return false;
> +     }
> +     return true;
> +}
> +
> +static bool zone_spans_last_pfn(const struct zone *zone,
> +                             unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
> +{
> +     unsigned long last_pfn = start_pfn + nr_pages - 1;
> +
> +     return zone_spans_pfn(zone, last_pfn);
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * alloc_contig_pages() -- tries to find and allocate contiguous range of 
> pages
> + * @nr_pages:        Number of contiguous pages to allocate
> + * @gfp_mask:        GFP mask to limit search and used during compaction
> + * @nid:     Target node
> + * @nodemask:        Mask for other possible nodes
> + *
> + * This routine is an wrapper around alloc_contig_range(). It scans over 
> zones
> + * on an applicable zonelist to find a contiguous pfn range which can then be
> + * tried for allocation with alloc_contig_range(). This routine is intended
> + * for allocation requests which can not be fulfilled with buddy allocator.
> + *
> + * Allocated pages can be freed with free_contig_range() or by manually 
> calling
> + * __free_page() on each allocated page.
> + *
> + * Return: pointer to 'order' pages on success, or NULL if not successful.
> + */
> +struct page *alloc_contig_pages(unsigned long nr_pages, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> +                             int nid, nodemask_t *nodemask)
> +{
> +     unsigned long ret, pfn, flags;
> +     struct zonelist *zonelist;
> +     struct zone *zone;
> +     struct zoneref *z;
> +
> +     zonelist = node_zonelist(nid, gfp_mask);
> +     for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
> +                                     gfp_zone(gfp_mask), nodemask) {
> +             spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
> +
> +             pfn = ALIGN(zone->zone_start_pfn, nr_pages);
> +             while (zone_spans_last_pfn(zone, pfn, nr_pages)) {
> +                     if (pfn_range_valid_contig(zone, pfn, nr_pages)) {
> +                             /*
> +                              * We release the zone lock here because
> +                              * alloc_contig_range() will also lock the zone
> +                              * at some point. If there's an allocation
> +                              * spinning on this lock, it may win the race
> +                              * and cause alloc_contig_range() to fail...
> +                              */
> +                             spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
> +                             ret = __alloc_contig_pages(pfn, nr_pages,
> +                                                     gfp_mask);
> +                             if (!ret)
> +                                     return pfn_to_page(pfn);
> +                             spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
> +                     }
> +                     pfn += nr_pages;
> +             }
> +             spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
> +     }
> +     return NULL;
> +}
>  #endif /* CONFIG_CONTIG_ALLOC */
>  
>  void free_contig_range(unsigned long pfn, unsigned int nr_pages)
> -- 
> 2.20.1

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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