On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 13:32:12 -0400 Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatas...@oracle.com>
wrote:
> vmemmap_alloc_block() will no longer zero the block, so zero memory
> at its call sites for everything except struct pages. Struct page memory
> is zero'd by struct page initialization.
>
> Replace allocators in sprase-vmemmap to use the non-zeroing version. So,
> we will get the performance improvement by zeroing the memory in parallel
> when struct pages are zeroed.
>
> Add struct page zeroing as a part of initialization of other fields in
> __init_single_page().
>
> This single thread performance collected on: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-8895
> v3 @ 2.60GHz with 1T of memory (268400646 pages in 8 nodes):
>
> BASE FIX
> sparse_init 11.244671836s 0.007199623s
> zone_sizes_init 4.879775891s 8.355182299s
> --------------------------
> Total 16.124447727s 8.362381922s
>
> sparse_init is where memory for struct pages is zeroed, and the zeroing
> part is moved later in this patch into __init_single_page(), which is
> called from zone_sizes_init().
x86_64 allmodconfig:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x29d099): Section mismatch in reference from the
function T.1331() to the function .meminit.text:vmemmap_alloc_block()
The function T.1331() references
the function __meminit vmemmap_alloc_block().
This is often because T.1331 lacks a __meminit
annotation or the annotation of vmemmap_alloc_block is wrong.
>From a quick scan it's unclear to me why this is happening. Maybe
gcc-4.4.4 decided to create an out-of-line version of
vmemmap_alloc_block_zero() for some reason.
Anyway. I see no reason to publish vmemmap_alloc_block_zero() to the
whole world when it's only used in sparse-vmemmap.c. The below fixes
the section mismatch:
--- a/include/linux/mm.h~mm-stop-zeroing-memory-during-allocation-in-vmemmap-fix
+++ a/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2529,17 +2529,6 @@ static inline void *vmemmap_alloc_block_
return __vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(size, node, NULL);
}
-static inline void *vmemmap_alloc_block_zero(unsigned long size, int node)
-{
- void *p = vmemmap_alloc_block(size, node);
-
- if (!p)
- return NULL;
- memset(p, 0, size);
-
- return p;
-}
-
void vmemmap_verify(pte_t *, int, unsigned long, unsigned long);
int vmemmap_populate_basepages(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
int node);
---
a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c~mm-stop-zeroing-memory-during-allocation-in-vmemmap-fix
+++ a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -178,6 +178,17 @@ pte_t * __meminit vmemmap_pte_populate(p
return pte;
}
+static void * __meminit vmemmap_alloc_block_zero(unsigned long size, int node)
+{
+ void *p = vmemmap_alloc_block(size, node);
+
+ if (!p)
+ return NULL;
+ memset(p, 0, size);
+
+ return p;
+}
+
pmd_t * __meminit vmemmap_pmd_populate(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr, int
node)
{
pmd_t *pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
_
