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Might make sense to document/enforce that >> somehow for the time being ... > > Shall I document and WARN_ON if the size exceeds? like: > WARN_ON(end - start > PAGES_PER_SECTION * sizeof(struct page)) Probably WARN_ON_ONCE() along with a comment that we should never exceed a single memory section. > > Since vmemmap_populate() is implemented per architecture, the change > should apply for other architectures as well. However I have no setup to > test it on... > Therefore, May I implement it only for arm64 now ? Would work for me; better than no warning. > Additionally, from previous discussion, the change is worth > backporting(apologies for missing to CC stable kernel in this version). > Keeping it for arm64 should simplify for backporting. WDYT? Jup. Of course, we could add a generic warning in a separate patch. > >> >> >>>> +/* >>>> + * Try to populate PMDs, but fallback to populating base pages when >>>> ranges >>>> + * would only partially cover a PMD. >>>> + */ >>>>    int __meminit vmemmap_populate_hugepages(unsigned long start, >>>> unsigned >>>> long end, >>>>                                            int node, struct vmem_altmap >>>> *altmap) >>>>    { >>>> @@ -313,6 +317,9 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate_hugepages(unsigned >>>> long start, unsigned long end, >>>>           for (addr = start; addr < end; addr = next) { >>> >>> This for loop appears to be redundant for arm64 as well, as above >>> mentioned, a single call to pmd_addr_end() should suffice. >> >> Right, that was what was confusing me in the first place. >> >>> >>>>                   next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end); >>>> >>>> +               if (!IS_ALIGNED(addr, PMD_SIZE) || !IS_ALIGNED(next, >>>> PMD_SIZE)) >>>> +                       goto fallback; >>>> + >>>>                   pgd = vmemmap_pgd_populate(addr, node); >>>>                   if (!pgd) >>>>                           return -ENOMEM; >>>> @@ -346,6 +353,7 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate_hugepages(unsigned >>>> long start, unsigned long end, >>>>                           } >>>>                   } else if (vmemmap_check_pmd(pmd, node, addr, next)) >>>>                           continue; >>>> +fallback: >>>>                   if (vmemmap_populate_basepages(addr, next, node, >>>> altmap)) >>>>                           return -ENOMEM; >>> >>> It seems we have no chance to call populate_basepages here? >> >> >> Can you elaborate? > > It's invoked within vmemmap_populate_hugepages(), which is called by > vmemmap_populate(). This implies that we are always performing a whole > section hotplug? Ah, you meant only in the context of this change, yes. I was confused, because there are other reasons why we run into that fallback (failing to allocate a PMD). -- Cheers, David / dhildenb