Thread (98 messages) 98 messages, 6 authors, 2026-05-25

[PATCH v2 13/69] mm/hugetlb: Refactor early boot gigantic hugepage allocation

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From: Muchun Song <hidden>
Date: 2026-05-13 13:08:45
Also in: linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: hugetlb subsystem, linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), memory management, the rest · Maintainers: Muchun Song, Oscar Salvador, Madhavan Srinivasan, Andrew Morton, Linus Torvalds

The early boot gigantic hugepage allocation helpers currently mix
allocation with huge_bootmem_page setup, and leave part of the
initialization flow in architecture code.

Refactor the interface to return the allocated huge page pointer and
move the huge_bootmem_page setup into the generic hugetlb code. This
makes the architecture-specific paths focus only on finding memory,
while the common code handles node placement and early page metadata
setup in one place.

This also lets powerpc benefit from memblock_reserved_mark_noinit(),
which it did not enable before.

In addition, upcoming cross-zone validation for boot-time gigantic
hugetlb reservation is common logic. With this refactoring, that logic
can stay in the generic code instead of being duplicated in
architecture-specific paths.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <redacted>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 11 ++--
 include/linux/hugetlb.h       |  8 +--
 mm/hugetlb.c                  | 95 ++++++++++++++---------------------
 mm/hugetlb_cma.c              | 12 ++---
 mm/hugetlb_cma.h              |  4 +-
 5 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 558fafb82b8a..ff8c5ec831bb 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -104,17 +104,14 @@ void __init pseries_add_gpage(u64 addr, u64 page_size, unsigned long number_of_p
 	}
 }
 
-static int __init pseries_alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *hstate)
+static __init void *pseries_alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *hstate)
 {
 	struct huge_bootmem_page *m;
 	if (nr_gpages == 0)
-		return 0;
+		return NULL;
 	m = phys_to_virt(gpage_freearray[--nr_gpages]);
 	gpage_freearray[nr_gpages] = 0;
-	list_add(&m->list, &huge_boot_pages[0]);
-	m->hstate = hstate;
-	m->flags = 0;
-	return 1;
+	return m;
 }
 
 bool __init hugetlb_node_alloc_supported(void)
@@ -124,7 +121,7 @@ bool __init hugetlb_node_alloc_supported(void)
 #endif
 
 
-int __init alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h, int nid)
+void *__init arch_alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h, int nid)
 {
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index 52a2c30f866c..9a65271d167c 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -720,8 +720,8 @@ void restore_reserve_on_error(struct hstate *h, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 				unsigned long address, struct folio *folio);
 
 /* arch callback */
-int __init __alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h, int nid);
-int __init alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h, int nid);
+void *__init __alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h, int nid);
+void *__init arch_alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h, int nid);
 bool __init hugetlb_node_alloc_supported(void);
 
 void __init hugetlb_add_hstate(unsigned order);
@@ -1152,9 +1152,9 @@ alloc_hugetlb_folio_nodemask(struct hstate *h, int preferred_nid,
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-static inline int __alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h)
+static inline void *__alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h, int nid)
 {
-	return 0;
+	return NULL;
 }
 
 static inline struct hstate *hstate_file(struct file *f)
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index b4999653a156..e9ba0be2eb17 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3044,79 +3044,58 @@ struct folio *alloc_hugetlb_folio(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 
 static __init void *alloc_bootmem(struct hstate *h, int nid, bool node_exact)
 {
-	struct huge_bootmem_page *m;
-	int listnode = nid;
-
 	if (hugetlb_early_cma(h))
-		m = hugetlb_cma_alloc_bootmem(h, &listnode, node_exact);
-	else {
-		if (node_exact)
-			m = memblock_alloc_exact_nid_raw(huge_page_size(h),
+		return hugetlb_cma_alloc_bootmem(h, nid, node_exact);
+
+	if (node_exact)
+		return memblock_alloc_exact_nid_raw(huge_page_size(h),
 				huge_page_size(h), 0,
 				MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE, nid);
-		else {
-			m = memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw(huge_page_size(h),
+
+	return memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw(huge_page_size(h),
 				huge_page_size(h), 0,
 				MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE, nid);
-			/*
-			 * For pre-HVO to work correctly, pages need to be on
-			 * the list for the node they were actually allocated
-			 * from. That node may be different in the case of
-			 * fallback by memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw. So,
-			 * extract the actual node first.
-			 */
-			if (m)
-				listnode = early_pfn_to_nid(PHYS_PFN(__pa(m)));
-		}
-
-		if (m) {
-			m->flags = 0;
-			m->cma = NULL;
-		}
-	}
-
-	if (m) {
-		/*
-		 * Use the beginning of the huge page to store the
-		 * huge_bootmem_page struct (until gather_bootmem
-		 * puts them into the mem_map).
-		 *
-		 * Put them into a private list first because mem_map
-		 * is not up yet.
-		 */
-		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&m->list);
-		list_add(&m->list, &huge_boot_pages[listnode]);
-		m->hstate = h;
-	}
-
-	return m;
 }
 
-int alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h, int nid)
+void *__init arch_alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h, int nid)
 	__attribute__ ((weak, alias("__alloc_bootmem_huge_page")));
-int __alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h, int nid)
+void *__init __alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h, int nid)
 {
-	struct huge_bootmem_page *m = NULL; /* initialize for clang */
 	int nr_nodes, node = nid;
 
 	/* do node specific alloc */
-	if (nid != NUMA_NO_NODE) {
-		m = alloc_bootmem(h, node, true);
-		if (!m)
-			return 0;
-		goto found;
-	}
+	if (nid != NUMA_NO_NODE)
+		return alloc_bootmem(h, node, true);
 
 	/* allocate from next node when distributing huge pages */
 	for_each_node_mask_to_alloc(&h->next_nid_to_alloc, nr_nodes, node,
-				    &hugetlb_bootmem_nodes) {
-		m = alloc_bootmem(h, node, false);
-		if (!m)
-			return 0;
-		goto found;
-	}
+				    &hugetlb_bootmem_nodes)
+		return alloc_bootmem(h, node, false);
 
-found:
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static bool __init alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h, int nid)
+{
+	struct huge_bootmem_page *m = arch_alloc_bootmem_huge_page(h, nid);
+
+	if (!m)
+		return false;
+
+	nid = early_pfn_to_nid(PHYS_PFN(__pa(m)));
+	/*
+	 * Use the beginning of the huge page to store the huge_bootmem_page
+	 * struct (until gather_bootmem puts them into the mem_map).
+	 *
+	 * Put them into a private list first because mem_map is not up yet.
+	 */
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&m->list);
+	list_add(&m->list, &huge_boot_pages[nid]);
+	m->hstate = h;
+	if (!hugetlb_early_cma(h)) {
+		m->cma = NULL;
+		m->flags = 0;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Only initialize the head struct page in memmap_init_reserved_pages,
@@ -3128,7 +3107,7 @@ int __alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h, int nid)
 	memblock_reserved_mark_noinit(__pa((void *)m + PAGE_SIZE),
 		huge_page_size(h) - PAGE_SIZE);
 
-	return 1;
+	return true;
 }
 
 /* Initialize [start_page:end_page_number] tail struct pages of a hugepage */
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_cma.c b/mm/hugetlb_cma.c
index 57a7b3acc758..6b5c2aec4449 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_cma.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_cma.c
@@ -57,13 +57,13 @@ struct folio *hugetlb_cma_alloc_frozen_folio(int order, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 }
 
 struct huge_bootmem_page * __init
-hugetlb_cma_alloc_bootmem(struct hstate *h, int *nid, bool node_exact)
+hugetlb_cma_alloc_bootmem(struct hstate *h, int nid, bool node_exact)
 {
 	struct cma *cma;
 	struct huge_bootmem_page *m;
-	int node = *nid;
+	int node;
 
-	cma = hugetlb_cma[*nid];
+	cma = hugetlb_cma[nid];
 	m = cma_reserve_early(cma, huge_page_size(h));
 	if (!m) {
 		if (node_exact)
@@ -71,13 +71,11 @@ hugetlb_cma_alloc_bootmem(struct hstate *h, int *nid, bool node_exact)
 
 		for_each_node_mask(node, hugetlb_bootmem_nodes) {
 			cma = hugetlb_cma[node];
-			if (!cma || node == *nid)
+			if (!cma || node == nid)
 				continue;
 			m = cma_reserve_early(cma, huge_page_size(h));
-			if (m) {
-				*nid = node;
+			if (m)
 				break;
-			}
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_cma.h b/mm/hugetlb_cma.h
index c619c394b1ae..057852c792bd 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_cma.h
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_cma.h
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 void hugetlb_cma_free_frozen_folio(struct folio *folio);
 struct folio *hugetlb_cma_alloc_frozen_folio(int order, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 				      int nid, nodemask_t *nodemask);
-struct huge_bootmem_page *hugetlb_cma_alloc_bootmem(struct hstate *h, int *nid,
+struct huge_bootmem_page *hugetlb_cma_alloc_bootmem(struct hstate *h, int nid,
 						    bool node_exact);
 bool hugetlb_cma_exclusive_alloc(void);
 unsigned long hugetlb_cma_total_size(void);
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ static inline struct folio *hugetlb_cma_alloc_frozen_folio(int order,
 }
 
 static inline
-struct huge_bootmem_page *hugetlb_cma_alloc_bootmem(struct hstate *h, int *nid,
+struct huge_bootmem_page *hugetlb_cma_alloc_bootmem(struct hstate *h, int nid,
 						    bool node_exact)
 {
 	return NULL;
-- 
2.54.0

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