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In tlb_batch_pages_flush(), we can end up freeing up to 512 pages or now up to 256 folio fragments that span more than one page, before we conditionally reschedule. It's a pain that we have to handle cond_resched() in tlb_batch_pages_flush() manually and cannot simply handle it in release_pages() -- release_pages() can be called from atomic context. Well, in a perfect world we wouldn't have to make our code more complicated at all. With page poisoning and init_on_free, we might now run into soft lockups when we free a lot of rather large folio fragments, because page freeing time then depends on the actual memory size we are freeing instead of on the number of folios that are involved. In the absolute (unlikely) worst case, on arm64 with 64k we will be able to free up to 256 folio fragments that each span 512 MiB: zeroing out 128 GiB does sound like it might take a while. But instead of ignoring this unlikely case, let's just handle it. So, let's teach tlb_batch_pages_flush() that there are some configurations where page freeing is horribly slow, and let's reschedule more frequently -- similarly like we did for now before we had large folio fragments in there. Avoid yet another loop over all encoded pages in the common case by handling that separately. Note that with page poisoning/zeroing, we might now end up freeing only a single folio fragment at a time that might exceed the old 512 pages limit: but if we cannot even free a single MAX_ORDER page on a system without running into soft lockups, something else is already completely bogus. Freeing a PMD-mapped THP would similarly cause trouble. In theory, we might even free 511 order-0 pages + a single MAX_ORDER page, effectively having to zero out 8703 pages on arm64 with 64k, translating to ~544 MiB of memory: however, if 512 MiB doesn't result in soft lockups, 544 MiB is unlikely to result in soft lockups, so we won't care about that for the time being. In the future, we might want to detect if handling cond_resched() is required at all, and just not do any of that with full preemption enabled. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240214204435.167852-10-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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README
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.