Re: [PATCH RESEND v2 3/5] mm_zone: add function to check if managed dma zone exists

[Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>]

On 12/07/21 at 12:23pm, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 07.12.21 04:07, Baoquan He wrote:
> > In some places of the current kernel, it assumes that dma zone must have
> > managed pages if CONFIG_ZONE_DMA is enabled. While this is not always true.
> > E.g in kdump kernel of x86_64, only low 1M is presented and locked down
> > at very early stage of boot, so that there's no managed pages at all in
> > DMA zone. This exception will always cause page allocation failure if page
> > is requested from DMA zone.
> > 
> > Here add function has_managed_dma() and the relevant helper functions to
> > check if there's DMA zone with managed pages. It will be used in later
> > patches.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/mmzone.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> >  mm/page_alloc.c        | 11 +++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 32 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> > index 58e744b78c2c..82d23e13e0e5 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> > @@ -998,6 +998,18 @@ static inline bool zone_is_zone_device(struct zone *zone)
> >  }
> >  #endif
> >  
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
> > +static inline bool zone_is_dma(struct zone *zone)
> > +{
> > +	return zone_idx(zone) == ZONE_DMA;
> > +}
> > +#else
> > +static inline bool zone_is_dma(struct zone *zone)
> > +{
> > +	return false;
> > +}
> > +#endif
> > +
> >  /*
> >   * Returns true if a zone has pages managed by the buddy allocator.
> >   * All the reclaim decisions have to use this function rather than
> > @@ -1046,6 +1058,7 @@ static inline int is_highmem_idx(enum zone_type idx)
> >  #endif
> >  }
> >  
> > +bool has_managed_dma(void);
> >  /**
> >   * is_highmem - helper function to quickly check if a struct zone is a
> >   *              highmem zone or not.  This is an attempt to keep references
> > @@ -1131,6 +1144,14 @@ extern struct zone *next_zone(struct zone *zone);
> >  			; /* do nothing */		\
> >  		else
> >  
> > +#define for_each_managed_zone(zone)		        \
> > +	for (zone = (first_online_pgdat())->node_zones; \
> > +	     zone;					\
> > +	     zone = next_zone(zone))			\
> > +		if (!managed_zone(zone))		\
> > +			; /* do nothing */		\
> > +		else
> > +
> >  static inline struct zone *zonelist_zone(struct zoneref *zoneref)
> >  {
> >  	return zoneref->zone;
> > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > index c5952749ad40..ac0ea42a4e5f 100644
> > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > @@ -9459,4 +9459,15 @@ bool take_page_off_buddy(struct page *page)
> >  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
> >  	return ret;
> >  }
> > +
> > +bool has_managed_dma(void)
> > +{
> > +	struct zone *zone;
> > +
> > +	for_each_managed_zone(zone) {
> > +		if (zone_is_dma(zone))
> > +			return true;
> > +	}
> > +	return false;
> > +}
> 
> Wouldn't it be "easier/faster" to just iterate online nodes and directly
> obtain the ZONE_DMA, checking if there are managed pages?

Thanks, Dave.

Please check for_each_managed_zone(), it is iterating online nodes and
it's each managed zone. 

Is below what you are suggesting? The only difference is I introduced
for_each_managed_zone() which can be reused later if needed. Not sure if
I got your suggestion correctly.

bool has_managed_dma(void)
{
        struct pglist_data *pgdat;
        struct zone *zone;
        enum zone_type i, j;

        for_each_online_pgdat(pgdat) {
                for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES - 1; i++) {          
                        struct zone *zone = &pgdat->node_zones[i];
                        if (zone_is_dma(zone))                                                                                                    
                                return true;
                }
        }
        return false;

}