On 25.08.25 16:59, Mike Rapoport wrote:

On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 04:38:03PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:

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On 25.08.25 16:32, Mike Rapoport wrote:

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On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 02:48:58PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:

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On 23.08.25 10:59, Mike Rapoport wrote:

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On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 08:24:31AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:

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On 22.08.25 06:09, Mika Penttilä wrote:

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On 8/21/25 23:06, David Hildenbrand wrote:

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All pages were already initialized and set to PageReserved() with a
refcount of 1 by MM init code.

Just to be sure, how is this working with MEMBLOCK_RSRV_NOINIT, where MM is supposed not to
initialize struct pages?

Excellent point, I did not know about that one.

Spotting that we don't do the same for the head page made me assume that
it's just a misuse of __init_single_page().

But the nasty thing is that we use memblock_reserved_mark_noinit() to only
mark the tail pages ...

And even nastier thing is that when CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is
disabled struct pages are initialized regardless of
memblock_reserved_mark_noinit().

I think this patch should go in before your updates:

Shouldn't we fix this in memblock code?

Hacking around that in the memblock_reserved_mark_noinit() user sound wrong
-- and nothing in the doc of memblock_reserved_mark_noinit() spells that
behavior out.

We can surely update the docs, but unfortunately I don't see how to avoid
hacking around it in hugetlb.
Since it's used to optimise HVO even further to the point hugetlb open
codes memmap initialization, I think it's fair that it should deal with all
possible configurations.

Remind me, why can't we support memblock_reserved_mark_noinit() when
CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is disabled?

When CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is disabled we initialize the entire
memmap early (setup_arch()->free_area_init()), and we may have a bunch of
memblock_reserved_mark_noinit() afterwards

Oh, you mean that we get effective memblock modifications after already
initializing the memmap.

That sounds ... interesting :)

So yeah, we have to document this for memblock_reserved_mark_noinit().

Is it also a problem for kexec_handover?

We should do something like:

diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
index 154f1d73b61f2..ed4c563d72c32 100644
--- a/mm/memblock.c
+++ b/mm/memblock.c

@@ -1091,13 +1091,16 @@ int __init_memblock memblock_clear_nomap(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size)
  
  /**
   * memblock_reserved_mark_noinit - Mark a reserved memory region with flag
- * MEMBLOCK_RSRV_NOINIT which results in the struct pages not being initialized
- * for this region.
+ * MEMBLOCK_RSRV_NOINIT which allows for the "struct pages" corresponding
+ * to this region not getting initialized, because the caller will take
+ * care of it.
   * @base: the base phys addr of the region
   * @size: the size of the region
   *
- * struct pages will not be initialized for reserved memory regions marked with
- * %MEMBLOCK_RSRV_NOINIT.
+ * "struct pages" will not be initialized for reserved memory regions marked
+ * with %MEMBLOCK_RSRV_NOINIT if this function is called before initialization
+ * code runs. Without CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT, it is more likely
+ * that this function is not effective.
   *
   * Return: 0 on success, -errno on failure.
   */

Optimizing the hugetlb code could be done, but I am not sure how high
the priority is (nobody complained so far about the double init).

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Cheers

David / dhildenb