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init/main: fix broken buffer_init when DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT set

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In the booting phase if CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is set,
we have following callchain:

start_kernel
...
  mm_init
    mem_init
     memblock_free_all
       reset_all_zones_managed_pages
       free_low_memory_core_early
...
  buffer_init
    nr_free_buffer_pages
      zone->managed_pages
...
  rest_init
    kernel_init
      kernel_init_freeable
        page_alloc_init_late
          kthread_run(deferred_init_memmap, NODE_DATA(nid), "pgdatinit%d", nid);
          wait_for_completion(&pgdat_init_all_done_comp);
          ...
          files_maxfiles_init

It's clear that buffer_init depends on zone->managed_pages, but it's reset
in reset_all_zones_managed_pages after that pages are readded into
zone->managed_pages, but when buffer_init runs this process is half done
and most of them will finally be added till deferred_init_memmap done.  In
large memory couting of nr_free_buffer_pages drifts too much, also
drifting from kernels to kernels on same hardware.

Fix is simple, it delays buffer_init run till deferred_init_memmap all
done.

But as corrected by this patch, max_buffer_heads becomes very large, the
value is roughly as many as 4 times of totalram_pages, formula:
max_buffer_heads = nrpages * (10%) * (PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct
buffer_head));

Say in a 64GB memory box we have 16777216 pages, then max_buffer_heads
turns out to be roughly 67,108,864.  In common cases, should a buffer_head
be mapped to one page/block(4KB)?  So max_buffer_heads never exceeds
totalram_pages.  IMO it's likely to make buffer_heads_over_limit bool
value alwasy false, then make codes 'if (buffer_heads_over_limit)' test in
vmscan unnecessary.

So this patch will change the original behavior related to
buffer_heads_over_limit in vmscan since we used a half done value of
zone->managed_pages before, or should we use a smaller factor(<10%) in
previous formula.

akpm: I think this is OK - the max_buffer_heads code is only needed on
highmem machines, to prevent ZONE_NORMAL from being consumed by large
amounts of buffer_heads attached to highmem pagecache.  This problem will
not occur on 64-bit machines, so this feature's non-functionality on such
machines is a feature, not a bug.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201123110500.103523-1-linf@wangsu.com
Signed-off-by: Lin Feng <linf@wangsu.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Lin Feng 2020-12-14 19:11:19 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 862b6dee20
commit ba8f3587f5
2 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
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init/main.c
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@ -58,7 +58,6 @@
#include <linux/rmap.h>
#include <linux/mempolicy.h>
#include <linux/key.h>
#include <linux/buffer_head.h>
#include <linux/page_ext.h>
#include <linux/debug_locks.h>
#include <linux/debugobjects.h>
@ -1036,7 +1035,6 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init __no_sanitize_address start_kernel(void)
fork_init();
proc_caches_init();
uts_ns_init();
buffer_init();
key_init();
security_init();
dbg_late_init();

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mm/page_alloc.c
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@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
#include <linux/psi.h>
#include <linux/padata.h>
#include <linux/khugepaged.h>
#include <linux/buffer_head.h>
#include <asm/sections.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
@ -2113,6 +2114,8 @@ void __init page_alloc_init_late(void)
files_maxfiles_init();
#endif
buffer_init();
/* Discard memblock private memory */
memblock_discard();