On 27 Jan 2021, at 5:18, David Hildenbrand wrote:

> Right now, if activation fails, we might already have exposed some pages to
> the buddy for CMA use (although they will never get actually used by CMA),
> and some pages won't be exposed to the buddy at all.
>
> Let's check for "single zone" early and on error, don't expose any pages
> for CMA use - instead, expose them to the buddy available for any use.
> Simply call free_reserved_page() on every single page - easier than
> going via free_reserved_area(), converting back and forth between pfns
> and virt addresses.
>
> In addition, make sure to fixup totalcma_pages properly.
>
> Example: 6 GiB QEMU VM with "... hugetlb_cma=2G movablecore=20% ...":
>   [    0.006891] hugetlb_cma: reserve 2048 MiB, up to 2048 MiB per node
>   [    0.006893] cma: Reserved 2048 MiB at 0x0000000100000000
>   [    0.006893] hugetlb_cma: reserved 2048 MiB on node 0
>   ...
>   [    0.175433] cma: CMA area hugetlb0 could not be activated
>
> Before this patch:
>   # cat /proc/meminfo
>   MemTotal:        5867348 kB
>   MemFree:         5692808 kB
>   MemAvailable:    5542516 kB
>   ...
>   CmaTotal:        2097152 kB
>   CmaFree:         1884160 kB
>
> After this patch:
>   # cat /proc/meminfo
>   MemTotal:        6077308 kB
>   MemFree:         5904208 kB
>   MemAvailable:    5747968 kB
>   ...
>   CmaTotal:              0 kB
>   CmaFree:               0 kB
>
> Note: cma_init_reserved_mem() makes sure that we always cover full
> pageblocks / MAX_ORDER - 1 pages.
>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
> Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <pet...@infradead.org>
> Cc: Mike Rapoport <r...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalva...@suse.de>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiy...@linux.alibaba.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <da...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  mm/cma.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

LGTM. Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <z...@nvidia.com>

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Best Regards,
Yan Zi

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