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When creating hugetlb pages, the hugetlb code must first allocate contiguous pages from a low level allocator such as buddy, cma or memblock. The pages returned from these low level allocators are ref counted. This creates potential issues with other code taking speculative references on these pages before they can be transformed to a hugetlb page. This issue has been addressed with methods and code such as that provided in [1]. Recent discussions about vmemmap freeing [2] have indicated that it would be beneficial to freeze all sub pages, including the head page of pages returned from low level allocators before converting to a hugetlb page. This helps avoid races if we want to replace the page containing vmemmap for the head page. There have been proposals to change at least the buddy allocator to return frozen pages as described at [3]. If such a change is made, it can be employed by the hugetlb code. However, as mentioned above hugetlb uses several low level allocators so each would need to be modified to return frozen pages. For now, we can manually freeze the returned pages. This is done in two places: 1) alloc_buddy_huge_page, only the returned head page is ref counted. We freeze the head page, retrying once in the VERY rare case where there may be an inflated ref count. 2) prep_compound_gigantic_page, for gigantic pages the current code freezes all pages except the head page. New code will simply freeze the head page as well. In a few other places, code checks for inflated ref counts on newly allocated hugetlb pages. With the modifications to freeze after allocating, this code can be removed. After hugetlb pages are freshly allocated, they are often added to the hugetlb free lists. Since these pages were previously ref counted, this was done via put_page() which would end up calling the hugetlb destructor: free_huge_page. With changes to freeze pages, we simply call free_huge_page directly to add the pages to the free list. In a few other places, freshly allocated hugetlb pages were immediately put into use, and the expectation was they were already ref counted. In these cases, we must manually ref count the page. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210622021423.154662-3-mike.kravetz@oracle.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220802180309.19340-1-joao.m.martins@oracle.com/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220809171854.3725722-1-willy@infradead.org/ [mike.kravetz@oracle.com: fix NULL pointer dereference] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220921202702.106069-1-mike.kravetz@oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220916214638.155744-1-mike.kravetz@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.