mm, page_owner: don't grab zone->lock for init_pages_in_zone()
authorVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Wed, 6 Sep 2017 23:20:51 +0000 (16:20 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 7 Sep 2017 00:27:26 +0000 (17:27 -0700)
init_pages_in_zone() is run under zone->lock, which means a long lock
time and disabled interrupts on large machines.  This is currently not
an issue since it runs early in boot, but a later patch will change
that.

However, like other pfn scanners, we don't actually need zone->lock even
when other cpus are running.  The only potentially dangerous operation
here is reading bogus buddy page owner due to race, and we already know
how to handle that.  The worst that can happen is that we skip some
early allocated pages, which should not affect the debugging power of
page_owner noticeably.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170720134029.25268-4-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Cc: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_owner.c

index 33634f74d0b20391a56f43127c7285db106a70c7..8e2d7137510c3ab4a81b42c3d8b86822e5db1e01 100644 (file)
@@ -562,11 +562,17 @@ static void init_pages_in_zone(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct zone *zone)
                                continue;
 
                        /*
-                        * We are safe to check buddy flag and order, because
-                        * this is init stage and only single thread runs.
+                        * To avoid having to grab zone->lock, be a little
+                        * careful when reading buddy page order. The only
+                        * danger is that we skip too much and potentially miss
+                        * some early allocated pages, which is better than
+                        * heavy lock contention.
                         */
                        if (PageBuddy(page)) {
-                               pfn += (1UL << page_order(page)) - 1;
+                               unsigned long order = page_order_unsafe(page);
+
+                               if (order > 0 && order < MAX_ORDER)
+                                       pfn += (1UL << order) - 1;
                                continue;
                        }
 
@@ -585,6 +591,7 @@ static void init_pages_in_zone(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct zone *zone)
                        __set_page_owner_handle(page_ext, early_handle, 0, 0);
                        count++;
                }
+               cond_resched();
        }
 
        pr_info("Node %d, zone %8s: page owner found early allocated %lu pages\n",
@@ -595,15 +602,12 @@ static void init_zones_in_node(pg_data_t *pgdat)
 {
        struct zone *zone;
        struct zone *node_zones = pgdat->node_zones;
-       unsigned long flags;
 
        for (zone = node_zones; zone - node_zones < MAX_NR_ZONES; ++zone) {
                if (!populated_zone(zone))
                        continue;
 
-               spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
                init_pages_in_zone(pgdat, zone);
-               spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
        }
 }