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Patch series "optimize memory hotplug", v3.
This patchset:
- Improves hotplug performance by eliminating a number of struct page
traverses during memory hotplug.
- Fixes some issues with hotplugging, where boundaries were not
properly checked. And on x86 block size was not properly aligned with
end of memory
- Also, potentially improves boot performance by eliminating condition
from __init_single_page().
- Adds robustness by verifying that that struct pages are correctly
poisoned when flags are accessed.
The following experiments were performed on Xeon(R) CPU E7-8895 v3 @
2.60GHz with 1T RAM:
booting in qemu with 960G of memory, time to initialize struct pages:
no-kvm:
TRY1 TRY2
BEFORE: 39.433668 39.39705
AFTER: 36.903781 36.989329
with-kvm:
BEFORE: 10.977447 11.103164
AFTER: 10.929072 10.751885
Hotplug 896G memory:
no-kvm:
TRY1 TRY2
BEFORE: 848.740000 846.910000
AFTER: 783.070000 786.560000
with-kvm:
TRY1 TRY2
BEFORE: 34.410000 33.57
AFTER: 29.810000 29.580000
This patch (of 6):
Start qemu with the following arguments:
-m 64G,slots=2,maxmem=66G -object memory-backend-ram,id=mem1,size=2G
Which: boots machine with 64G, and adds a device mem1 with 2G which can
be hotplugged later.
Also make sure that config has the following turned on:
CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE
CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_MEMORY
Using the qemu monitor hotplug the memory (make sure config has (qemu)
device_add pc-dimm,id=dimm1,memdev=mem1
The operation will fail with the following trace:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 91 at drivers/base/memory.c:205
pages_correctly_reserved+0xe6/0x110
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 91 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 4.16.0-rc1_pt_master #29
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
BIOS rel-1.11.0-0-g63451fca13-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:pages_correctly_reserved+0xe6/0x110
Call Trace:
memory_subsys_online+0x44/0xa0
device_online+0x51/0x80
store_mem_state+0x5e/0xe0
kernfs_fop_write+0xfa/0x170
__vfs_write+0x2e/0x150
vfs_write+0xa8/0x1a0
SyS_write+0x4d/0xb0
do_syscall_64+0x5d/0x110
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x21/0x86
---[ end trace 6203bc4f1a5d30e8 ]---
The problem is detected in: drivers/base/memory.c
static bool pages_correctly_reserved(unsigned long start_pfn)
205 if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!pfn_valid(pfn)))
This function loops through every section in the newly added memory
block and verifies that the first pfn is valid, meaning section exists,
has mapping (struct page array), and is online.
The block size on x86 is usually 128M, but when machine is booted with
more than 64G of memory, the block size is changed to 2G: $ cat
/sys/devices/system/memory/block_size_bytes 80000000
or
$ dmesg | grep "block size"
[ 0.086469] x86/mm: Memory block size: 2048MB
During memory hotplug, and hotremove we verify that the range is section
size aligned, but we actually must verify that it is block size aligned,
because that is the proper unit for hotplug operations. See:
Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
So, when the start_pfn of newly added memory is not block size aligned,
we can get a memory block that has only part of it with properly
populated sections.
In our case the start_pfn starts from the last_pfn (end of physical
memory).
$ dmesg | grep last_pfn
[ 0.000000] e820: last_pfn = 0x1040000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
0x1040000 == 65G, and so is not 2G aligned!
The fix is to enforce that memory that is hotplugged and hotremoved is
block size aligned.
With this fix, running the above sequence yield to the following result:
(qemu) device_add pc-dimm,id=dimm1,memdev=mem1
Block size [0x80000000] unaligned hotplug range: start 0x1040000000,
size 0x80000000
acpi PNP0C80:00: add_memory failed
acpi PNP0C80:00: acpi_memory_enable_device() error
acpi PNP0C80:00: Enumeration failure
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180213193159.14606-2-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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