Currently without THP being enabled, MAX_ORDER via FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER gets
reduced to 11, which falls below HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER for certain 16K and 64K
page size configurations. This is problematic which throws up the following
warning during boot as pageblock_order via HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER order exceeds
MAX_ORDER.
WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 127 at mm/vmstat.c:1092 __fragmentation_index+0x58/0x70
Modules linked in:
CPU: 7 PID: 127 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc1-00005-g0221e3101a1 #237
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
pstate: 20400005 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
pc : __fragmentation_index+0x58/0x70
lr : fragmentation_index+0x88/0xa8
sp : ffff800016ccfc00
x29: ffff800016ccfc00 x28: 0000000000000000
x27: ffff800011fd4000 x26: 0000000000000002
x25: ffff800016ccfda0 x24: 0000000000000002
x23: 0000000000000640 x22: ffff0005ffcb5b18
x21: 0000000000000002 x20: 000000000000000d
x19: ffff0005ffcb3980 x18: 0000000000000004
x17: 0000000000000001 x16: 0000000000000019
x15: ffff800011ca7fb8 x14: 00000000000002b3
x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 00000000000005e0
x11: 0000000000000003 x10: 0000000000000080
x9 : ffff800011c93948 x8 : 0000000000000000
x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000007000
x5 : 0000000000007944 x4 : 0000000000000032
x3 : 000000000000001c x2 : 000000000000000b
x1 : ffff800016ccfc10 x0 : 000000000000000d
Call trace:
__fragmentation_index+0x58/0x70
compaction_suitable+0x58/0x78
wakeup_kcompactd+0x8c/0xd8
balance_pgdat+0x570/0x5d0
kswapd+0x1e0/0x388
kthread+0x154/0x158
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x30
This solves the problem via keeping FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER unchanged with or
without THP on 16K and 64K page size configurations, making sure that the
HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER (and pageblock_order) would never exceed MAX_ORDER.
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <redacted>
---
This applies on v5.12-rc1 and does not seem to have any obvious problem
on 16K and 64K page size configurations. This is a simpler alternate to
a previous series [1] which tried to solve the very same problem but in
a different way.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/list/?series=431973
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
I think this makes sense. The original "14" was added by Steve C in
commit d03bb1455f3a ("ARM64: mm: Raise MAX_ORDER for 64KB pages and
THP.") back in 3.11. It looks like hugetlbfs (and the HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER
definition) was added in the same kernel but we somehow missed the
!TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE case and smaller page order. The warning in
__fragmentation_index() was added much later in 4.14.
Anyway, the patch looks fine to me, we could apply it to some past
stable kernels:
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
An alternative would have be to add a dependency on both
TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE and HUGETLB_PAGE but I'm not sure it's worth it.
--
Catalin
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