On 13.02.25 16:49, Catalin Marinas wrote:
On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 01:59:25PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
On 13.02.25 08:57, Zhenhua Huang wrote:
On the arm64 platform with 4K base page config, SECTION_SIZE_BITS is set to 27, making one section 128M. The related page struct which vmemmap points to is 2M then. Commit c1cc1552616d ("arm64: MMU initialisation") optimizes the vmemmap to populate at the PMD section level which was suitable initially since hot plug granule is always one section(128M). However, commit ba72b4c8cf60 ("mm/sparsemem: support sub-section hotplug") introduced a 2M(SUBSECTION_SIZE) hot plug granule, which disrupted the existing arm64 assumptions.
Considering the vmemmap_free -> unmap_hotplug_pmd_range path, when pmd_sect() is true, the entire PMD section is cleared, even if there is other effective subsection. For example page_struct_map1 and page_strcut_map2 are part of a single PMD entry and they are hot-added sequentially. Then page_struct_map1 is removed, vmemmap_free() will clear the entire PMD entry freeing the struct page map for the whole section, even though page_struct_map2 is still active. Similar problem exists with linear mapping as well, for 16K base page(PMD size = 32M) or 64K base page(PMD = 512M), their block mappings exceed SUBSECTION_SIZE. Tearing down the entire PMD mapping too will leave other subsections unmapped in the linear mapping.
To address the issue, we need to prevent PMD/PUD/CONT mappings for both linear and vmemmap for non-boot sections if corresponding size on the given base page exceeds SUBSECTION_SIZE(2MB now).
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.4+ Fixes: ba72b4c8cf60 ("mm/sparsemem: support sub-section hotplug") Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com Signed-off-by: Zhenhua Huang quic_zhenhuah@quicinc.com
Just so I understand correctly: for ordinary memory-sections-size hotplug (NVDIMM, virtio-mem), we still get a large mapping where possible?
Up to 2MB blocks only since that's the SUBSECTION_SIZE value. The vmemmap mapping is also limited to PAGE_SIZE mappings (we could use contiguous mappings for vmemmap but it's not wired up; I don't think it's worth the hassle).
But that's messed up, no?
If someone hotplugs a memory section, they have to hotunplug a memory section, not parts of it.
That's why x86 does in vmemmap_populate():
if (end - start < PAGES_PER_SECTION * sizeof(struct page)) err = vmemmap_populate_basepages(start, end, node, NULL); else if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PSE)) err = vmemmap_populate_hugepages(start, end, node, altmap); ...
Maybe I'm missing something. Most importantly, why the weird subsection stuff is supposed to degrade ordinary hotplug of dimms/virtio-mem etc.