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__free_pages_core() is used when exposing fresh memory to the buddy during
system boot and when onlining memory in generic_online_page().

generic_online_page() is used in two cases:

1. Direct memory onlining in online_pages().
2. Deferred memory onlining in memory-ballooning-like mechanisms (HyperV
   balloon and virtio-mem), when parts of a section are kept
   fake-offline to be fake-onlined later on.

In 1, we already place pages to the tail of the freelist.  Pages will be
freed to MIGRATE_ISOLATE lists first and moved to the tail of the
freelists via undo_isolate_page_range().

In 2, we currently don't implement a proper rule.  In case of virtio-mem,
where we currently always online MAX_ORDER - 1 pages, the pages will be
placed to the HEAD of the freelist - undesireable.  While the hyper-v
balloon calls generic_online_page() with single pages, usually it will
call it on successive single pages in a larger block.

The pages are fresh, so place them to the tail of the freelist and avoid
the PCP.  In __free_pages_core(), remove the now superflouos call to
set_page_refcounted() and add a comment regarding page initialization and
the refcount.

Note: In 2.  we currently don't shuffle.  If ever relevant (page shuffling
is usually of limited use in virtualized environments), we might want to
shuffle after a sequence of generic_online_page() calls in the relevant
callers.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Scott Cheloha <cheloha@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201005121534.15649-5-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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davidhildenbrand authored and torvalds committed Oct 16, 2020
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33 changes: 23 additions & 10 deletions mm/page_alloc.c
Expand Up @@ -275,7 +275,8 @@ bool pm_suspended_storage(void)
unsigned int pageblock_order __read_mostly;
#endif

static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
fpi_t fpi_flags);

/*
* results with 256, 32 in the lowmem_reserve sysctl:
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -687,7 +688,7 @@ static void bad_page(struct page *page, const char *reason)
void free_compound_page(struct page *page)
{
mem_cgroup_uncharge(page);
__free_pages_ok(page, compound_order(page));
__free_pages_ok(page, compound_order(page), FPI_NONE);
}

void prep_compound_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1423,14 +1424,14 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count,
static void free_one_page(struct zone *zone,
struct page *page, unsigned long pfn,
unsigned int order,
int migratetype)
int migratetype, fpi_t fpi_flags)
{
spin_lock(&zone->lock);
if (unlikely(has_isolate_pageblock(zone) ||
is_migrate_isolate(migratetype))) {
migratetype = get_pfnblock_migratetype(page, pfn);
}
__free_one_page(page, pfn, zone, order, migratetype, FPI_NONE);
__free_one_page(page, pfn, zone, order, migratetype, fpi_flags);
spin_unlock(&zone->lock);
}

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1508,7 +1509,8 @@ void __meminit reserve_bootmem_region(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end)
}
}

static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
fpi_t fpi_flags)
{
unsigned long flags;
int migratetype;
Expand All @@ -1520,7 +1522,8 @@ static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
migratetype = get_pfnblock_migratetype(page, pfn);
local_irq_save(flags);
__count_vm_events(PGFREE, 1 << order);
free_one_page(page_zone(page), page, pfn, order, migratetype);
free_one_page(page_zone(page), page, pfn, order, migratetype,
fpi_flags);
local_irq_restore(flags);
}

Expand All @@ -1530,6 +1533,11 @@ void __free_pages_core(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
struct page *p = page;
unsigned int loop;

/*
* When initializing the memmap, __init_single_page() sets the refcount
* of all pages to 1 ("allocated"/"not free"). We have to set the
* refcount of all involved pages to 0.
*/
prefetchw(p);
for (loop = 0; loop < (nr_pages - 1); loop++, p++) {
prefetchw(p + 1);
Expand All @@ -1540,8 +1548,12 @@ void __free_pages_core(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
set_page_count(p, 0);

atomic_long_add(nr_pages, &page_zone(page)->managed_pages);
set_page_refcounted(page);
__free_pages(page, order);

/*
* Bypass PCP and place fresh pages right to the tail, primarily
* relevant for memory onlining.
*/
__free_pages_ok(page, order, FPI_TO_TAIL);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -3168,7 +3180,8 @@ static void free_unref_page_commit(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn)
*/
if (migratetype >= MIGRATE_PCPTYPES) {
if (unlikely(is_migrate_isolate(migratetype))) {
free_one_page(zone, page, pfn, 0, migratetype);
free_one_page(zone, page, pfn, 0, migratetype,
FPI_NONE);
return;
}
migratetype = MIGRATE_MOVABLE;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -4991,7 +5004,7 @@ static inline void free_the_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
if (order == 0) /* Via pcp? */
free_unref_page(page);
else
__free_pages_ok(page, order);
__free_pages_ok(page, order, FPI_NONE);
}

void __free_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
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