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authorNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>2007-10-16 01:26:24 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-16 09:43:03 -0700
commit63b4613c3f0d4b724ba259dc6c201bb68b884e1a (patch)
tree878818a47052fd204aa0a5d34e592967732d59f9 /mm/hugetlb.c
parent6b0c880dfefecedb9ad353014ed41505c32aca82 (diff)
downloadlinux-63b4613c3f0d4b724ba259dc6c201bb68b884e1a.tar.bz2
hugetlb: fix hugepage allocation with memoryless nodes
Anton found a problem with the hugetlb pool allocation when some nodes have no memory (http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118133042025995&w=2). Lee worked on versions that tried to fix it, but none were accepted. Christoph has created a set of patches which allow for GFP_THISNODE allocations to fail if the node has no memory. Currently, alloc_fresh_huge_page() returns NULL when it is not able to allocate a huge page on the current node, as specified by its custom interleave variable. The callers of this function, though, assume that a failure in alloc_fresh_huge_page() indicates no hugepages can be allocated on the system period. This might not be the case, for instance, if we have an uneven NUMA system, and we happen to try to allocate a hugepage on a node with less memory and fail, while there is still plenty of free memory on the other nodes. To correct this, make alloc_fresh_huge_page() search through all online nodes before deciding no hugepages can be allocated. Add a helper function for actually allocating the hugepage. Use a new global nid iterator to control which nid to allocate on. Note: we expect particular semantics for __GFP_THISNODE, which are now enforced even for memoryless nodes. That is, there is should be no fallback to other nodes. Therefore, we rely on the nid passed into alloc_pages_node() to be the nid the page comes from. If this is incorrect, accounting will break. Tested on x86 !NUMA, x86 NUMA, x86_64 NUMA and ppc64 NUMA (with 2 memoryless nodes). Before on the ppc64 box: Trying to clear the hugetlb pool Done. 0 free Trying to resize the pool to 100 Node 0 HugePages_Free: 25 Node 1 HugePages_Free: 75 Node 2 HugePages_Free: 0 Node 3 HugePages_Free: 0 Done. Initially 100 free Trying to resize the pool to 200 Node 0 HugePages_Free: 50 Node 1 HugePages_Free: 150 Node 2 HugePages_Free: 0 Node 3 HugePages_Free: 0 Done. 200 free After: Trying to clear the hugetlb pool Done. 0 free Trying to resize the pool to 100 Node 0 HugePages_Free: 50 Node 1 HugePages_Free: 50 Node 2 HugePages_Free: 0 Node 3 HugePages_Free: 0 Done. Initially 100 free Trying to resize the pool to 200 Node 0 HugePages_Free: 100 Node 1 HugePages_Free: 100 Node 2 HugePages_Free: 0 Node 3 HugePages_Free: 0 Done. 200 free Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/hugetlb.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/hugetlb.c63
1 files changed, 43 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 8fb86ba452b0..82efecbab96f 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ static unsigned int surplus_huge_pages_node[MAX_NUMNODES];
static gfp_t htlb_alloc_mask = GFP_HIGHUSER;
unsigned long hugepages_treat_as_movable;
int hugetlb_dynamic_pool;
+static int hugetlb_next_nid;
/*
* Protects updates to hugepage_freelists, nr_huge_pages, and free_huge_pages
@@ -165,36 +166,56 @@ static int adjust_pool_surplus(int delta)
return ret;
}
-static int alloc_fresh_huge_page(void)
+static struct page *alloc_fresh_huge_page_node(int nid)
{
- static int prev_nid;
struct page *page;
- int nid;
-
- /*
- * Copy static prev_nid to local nid, work on that, then copy it
- * back to prev_nid afterwards: otherwise there's a window in which
- * a racer might pass invalid nid MAX_NUMNODES to alloc_pages_node.
- * But we don't need to use a spin_lock here: it really doesn't
- * matter if occasionally a racer chooses the same nid as we do.
- */
- nid = next_node(prev_nid, node_online_map);
- if (nid == MAX_NUMNODES)
- nid = first_node(node_online_map);
- prev_nid = nid;
- page = alloc_pages_node(nid, htlb_alloc_mask|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOWARN,
- HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER);
+ page = alloc_pages_node(nid,
+ htlb_alloc_mask|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_THISNODE|__GFP_NOWARN,
+ HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER);
if (page) {
set_compound_page_dtor(page, free_huge_page);
spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
nr_huge_pages++;
- nr_huge_pages_node[page_to_nid(page)]++;
+ nr_huge_pages_node[nid]++;
spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
put_page(page); /* free it into the hugepage allocator */
- return 1;
}
- return 0;
+
+ return page;
+}
+
+static int alloc_fresh_huge_page(void)
+{
+ struct page *page;
+ int start_nid;
+ int next_nid;
+ int ret = 0;
+
+ start_nid = hugetlb_next_nid;
+
+ do {
+ page = alloc_fresh_huge_page_node(hugetlb_next_nid);
+ if (page)
+ ret = 1;
+ /*
+ * Use a helper variable to find the next node and then
+ * copy it back to hugetlb_next_nid afterwards:
+ * otherwise there's a window in which a racer might
+ * pass invalid nid MAX_NUMNODES to alloc_pages_node.
+ * But we don't need to use a spin_lock here: it really
+ * doesn't matter if occasionally a racer chooses the
+ * same nid as we do. Move nid forward in the mask even
+ * if we just successfully allocated a hugepage so that
+ * the next caller gets hugepages on the next node.
+ */
+ next_nid = next_node(hugetlb_next_nid, node_online_map);
+ if (next_nid == MAX_NUMNODES)
+ next_nid = first_node(node_online_map);
+ hugetlb_next_nid = next_nid;
+ } while (!page && hugetlb_next_nid != start_nid);
+
+ return ret;
}
static struct page *alloc_buddy_huge_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
@@ -365,6 +386,8 @@ static int __init hugetlb_init(void)
for (i = 0; i < MAX_NUMNODES; ++i)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&hugepage_freelists[i]);
+ hugetlb_next_nid = first_node(node_online_map);
+
for (i = 0; i < max_huge_pages; ++i) {
if (!alloc_fresh_huge_page())
break;