Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] hugetlbfs: remove hugetlb_add_hstate() warning for existing hstate

On 4/22/20 3:42 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:

Mike Kravetz [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

The routine hugetlb_add_hstate prints a warning if the hstate already
exists.  This was originally done as part of kernel command line
parsing.  If 'hugepagesz=' was specified more than once, the warning
	pr_warn("hugepagesz= specified twice, ignoring\n");
would be printed.

Some architectures want to enable all huge page sizes.  They would
call hugetlb_add_hstate for all supported sizes.  However, this was
done after command line processing and as a result hstates could have
already been created for some sizes.  To make sure no warning were
printed, there would often be code like:
	if (!size_to_hstate(size)
		hugetlb_add_hstate(ilog2(size) - PAGE_SHIFT)

The only time we want to print the warning is as the result of command
line processing.

Does this patch break hugepages=x command line? I haven't tested this
yet. But one of the details w.r.t. skipping that hugetlb_add_hstate is
to make sure we can configure the max_huge_pages. 

Are you asking about hugepages=x being the only option on the command line?
If so, then the behavior is not changed.  This will result in x pages of
default huge page size being allocated.  Where default huge page size is of
course architecture dependent.  On an x86 VM,

[    0.040474] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.6.0-mm1+ root=/dev/mapper/fedora_new--host-root ro rd.lvm.lv=fedora_new-host/root rd.lvm.lv=fedora_new-host/swap console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 audit=0 transparent_hugepage=always hugepages=128
[    0.332618] HugeTLB registered 1.00 GiB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
[    0.333245] HugeTLB registered 2.00 MiB page size, pre-allocated 128 pages

BTW - Here are the command line options I tested on x86 with this series.

No errors or warnings
---------------------
hugepages=128
hugepagesz=2M hugepages=128
default_hugepagesz=2M hugepages=128
hugepages=128 default_hugepagesz=2M
hugepagesz=1G hugepages=2
hugepages=2 default_hugepagesz=1G
default_hugepagesz=1G hugepages=2
hugepages=128 hugepagesz=1G hugepages=2
hugepagesz=1G hugepages=2 hugepagesz=2M hugepages=128
default_hugepagesz=2M hugepages=128 hugepagesz=1G hugepages=2
hugepages=128 default_hugepagesz=2M hugepagesz=1G hugepages=2
hugepages=2 default_hugepagesz=1G hugepagesz=2M hugepages=128
default_hugepagesz=1G hugepages=2 hugepagesz=2M hugepages=128
default_hugepagesz=2M hugepagesz=2M hugepages=128
default_hugepagesz=2M hugepagesz=1G hugepages=2 hugepagesz=2M hugepages=128

Error or warning
----------------
hugepages=128 hugepagesz=2M hugepages=256
hugepagesz=2M hugepages=128 hugepagesz=2M hugepages=256
default_hugepagesz=2M hugepages=128 hugepagesz=2M hugepages=256
hugepages=128 hugepages=256
hugepagesz=2M hugepages=128 hugepages=2 default_hugepagesz=1G

-- 
Mike Kravetz