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From: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
To: Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
	fam.zheng@bytedance.com, liangma@liangbit.com,
	punit.agrawal@bytedance.com
Subject: Re: [v3 3/4] memblock: introduce MEMBLOCK_RSRV_NOINIT_VMEMMAP flag
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:26:17 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <357EEE41-1898-4430-BCC7-73F591CE8749@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230825111836.1715308-4-usama.arif@bytedance.com>



> On Aug 25, 2023, at 19:18, Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com> wrote:
> 
> For reserved memory regions marked with this flag,
> reserve_bootmem_region is not called during memmap_init_reserved_pages.
> This can be used to avoid struct page initialization for
> regions which won't need them, for e.g. hugepages with
> HVO enabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>

Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>

One nit below.

> ---
> include/linux/memblock.h | 10 ++++++++++
> mm/memblock.c            | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/memblock.h b/include/linux/memblock.h
> index f71ff9f0ec81..6d681d053880 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memblock.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memblock.h
> @@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ extern unsigned long long max_possible_pfn;
>  * via a driver, and never indicated in the firmware-provided memory map as
>  * system RAM. This corresponds to IORESOURCE_SYSRAM_DRIVER_MANAGED in the
>  * kernel resource tree.
> + * @MEMBLOCK_RSRV_NOINIT_VMEMMAP: memory region for which struct pages are
> + * not initialized (only for reserved regions).

We have a more detailed explanation here.

>  */
> enum memblock_flags {
> 	MEMBLOCK_NONE = 0x0, /* No special request */
> @@ -47,6 +49,8 @@ enum memblock_flags {
> 	MEMBLOCK_MIRROR = 0x2, /* mirrored region */
> 	MEMBLOCK_NOMAP = 0x4, /* don't add to kernel direct mapping */
> 	MEMBLOCK_DRIVER_MANAGED = 0x8, /* always detected via a driver */
> +	/* don't initialize struct pages associated with this reserver memory block */

Those comments right after the macros here seem like a brief explanation.
To keep the consistent with others, maybe "don't initialize struct pages"
is enough? At least, a detailed one is redundant and repetitive compared
with the above one.

> +	MEMBLOCK_RSRV_NOINIT_VMEMMAP = 0x10,
> };



  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-28  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-25 11:18 [v3 0/4] mm: hugetlb: Skip initialization of gigantic tail struct pages if freed by HVO Usama Arif
2023-08-25 11:18 ` [v3 1/4] mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: Use nid of the head page to reallocate it Usama Arif
2023-08-28  7:15   ` Muchun Song
2023-08-28 18:25     ` Mike Kravetz
2023-08-25 11:18 ` [v3 2/4] memblock: pass memblock_type to memblock_setclr_flag Usama Arif
2023-08-28  7:16   ` Muchun Song
2023-08-28  7:37   ` Mike Rapoport
2023-08-28 18:39   ` Mike Kravetz
2023-08-25 11:18 ` [v3 3/4] memblock: introduce MEMBLOCK_RSRV_NOINIT_VMEMMAP flag Usama Arif
2023-08-28  7:26   ` Muchun Song [this message]
2023-08-28  7:47   ` Mike Rapoport
2023-08-28  8:52     ` Muchun Song
2023-08-28  9:09       ` Mike Rapoport
2023-08-28  9:18         ` Muchun Song
2023-08-25 11:18 ` [v3 4/4] mm: hugetlb: Skip initialization of gigantic tail struct pages if freed by HVO Usama Arif
2023-08-28 11:33   ` Muchun Song
2023-08-28 21:04     ` Mike Kravetz
2023-08-29  3:33       ` Muchun Song
2023-08-29  3:47         ` Mike Kravetz
2023-08-30 10:27     ` [External] " Usama Arif
2023-08-31  6:21       ` [External] " Muchun Song
2023-08-31  9:58         ` Mel Gorman
2023-08-31 10:01           ` Muchun Song
2023-08-31 10:28             ` Mel Gorman
2023-08-31  7:33       ` [External] " Mike Rapoport

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