On 5/19/21 6:19 PM, Muchun Song wrote:

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 7:44 PM Anshuman Khandual
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On 5/18/21 2:48 PM, Muchun Song wrote:

quoted

The preparation of supporting freeing vmemmap associated with each
HugeTLB page is ready, so we can support this feature for arm64.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <redacted>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 5 +++++
 fs/Kconfig          | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 5d37e461c41f..967b01ce468d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 #include <linux/set_memory.h>
+#include <linux/hugetlb.h>

 #include <asm/barrier.h>
 #include <asm/cputype.h>

@@ -1134,6 +1135,10 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node,
      pmd_t *pmdp;

      WARN_ON((start < VMEMMAP_START) || (end > VMEMMAP_END));
+
+     if (is_hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled() && !altmap)
+             return vmemmap_populate_basepages(start, end, node, altmap);

Not considering the fact that this will force the kernel to have only
base page size mapping for vmemmap (unless altmap is also requested)
which might reduce the performance, it also enables vmemmap mapping to
be teared down or build up at runtime which could potentially collide
with other kernel page table walkers like ptdump or memory hotremove
operation ! How those possible collisions are protected right now ?

For the ptdump, there seems no problem.  The change of pte seems
not to affect the ptdump unless I miss something.

The worst case scenario for ptdump would be an wrong information being
dumped. But as mentioned earlier, this must be protected against memory
hot remove operation which could free up entries for vmemmap areas in
the kernel page table.

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