Thread (22 messages) 22 messages, 6 authors, 2021-09-29

Re: [RFC] arm64: mm: update max_pfn after memory hotplug

From: Georgi Djakov <hidden>
Date: 2021-09-27 23:02:00
Also in: linux-mm

On 9/27/2021 11:14 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
On 27.09.21 22:00, Georgi Djakov wrote:
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On 9/27/2021 8:34 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
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On 27.09.21 19:22, Georgi Djakov wrote:
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On 9/24/2021 1:54 AM, Chris Goldsworthy wrote:
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From: Sudarshan Rajagopalan <redacted>

After new memory blocks have been hotplugged, max_pfn and max_low_pfn
needs updating to reflect on new PFNs being hot added to system.

Signed-off-by: Sudarshan Rajagopalan <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Chris Goldsworthy <redacted>
Thanks for the patch, Chris!

With this patch, the data in /proc/kpageflags appears to be correct and
memory tools like procrank work again on arm64 platforms.

Tested-by: Georgi Djakov <redacted>

Maybe we should add fixes tag, as it has been broken since the 
following
commit:
Fixes: abec749facff ("fs/proc/page.c: allow inspection of last section
and fix end detection")
Are you sure that that commit broke it?
Reverting the above commit also "fixes" kpageflags, otherwise
kpageflags_read() returns 0 in the following check:
    if (src >= max_dump_pfn * KPMSIZE)
        return 0;
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I recall that we would naturally run into the limit, because

count = min_t(size_t, count, (max_pfn * KPMSIZE) - src);
The function returns before we reach this line.
That is the old code. I don't see how the behavior of the old code with 
wrong max_pfn was doing what it's supposed to do.

page_idle and page_owner also rely on max_pfn. The root issue is that 
max_pfn wasn't updated properly.
Ok, i agree that this is not really fixing abec749facff, as it only 
reveals the real issue, so then the fixes tag should be even further
back to:
Fixes: 4ab215061554 ("arm64: Add memory hotplug support")

Thanks,
Georgi

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