[PATCH v3 0/3] arm64: support page mapping percpu first chunk allocator
Kefeng Wang
wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com
Sun Aug 22 19:29:32 PDT 2021
On 2021/8/12 14:07, Kefeng Wang wrote:
> Hi Catalin and Will,
>
> The drivers/base/arch_numa.c is only shared by riscv and arm64,
>
> and the change from patch2 won't broke riscv.
>
> Could all patches be merged by arm64 tree? or any new comments?
Kindly ping...
>
> Many thanks.
>
> On 2021/8/9 17:37, Kefeng Wang wrote:
>> Percpu embedded first chunk allocator is the firstly option, but it
>> could fails on ARM64, eg,
>> "percpu: max_distance=0x5fcfdc640000 too large for vmalloc space
>> 0x781fefff0000"
>> "percpu: max_distance=0x600000540000 too large for vmalloc space
>> 0x7dffb7ff0000"
>> "percpu: max_distance=0x5fff9adb0000 too large for vmalloc space
>> 0x5dffb7ff0000"
>>
>> then we could meet "WARNING: CPU: 15 PID: 461 at vmalloc.c:3087
>> pcpu_get_vm_areas+0x488/0x838",
>> even the system could not boot successfully.
>>
>> Let's implement page mapping percpu first chunk allocator as a fallback
>> to the embedding allocator to increase the robustness of the system.
>>
>> Also fix a crash when both NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK and
>> KASAN_VMALLOC enabled.
>>
>> Tested on ARM64 qemu with cmdline "percpu_alloc=page" based on
>> v5.14-rc5.
>>
>> v3:
>> - search for a range that fits instead of always picking the end from
>> vmalloc area suggested by Catalin.
>> - use NUMA_NO_NODE to avoid "virt_to_phys used for non-linear address:"
>> issue in arm64 kasan_populate_early_vm_area_shadow().
>> - add Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver at google.com> to patch v3
>>
>> V2:
>> - fix build error when CONFIG_KASAN disabled, found by lkp at intel.com
>> - drop wrong __weak comment from kasan_populate_early_vm_area_shadow(),
>> found by Marco Elver <elver at google.com>
>>
>> Kefeng Wang (3):
>> vmalloc: Choose a better start address in vm_area_register_early()
>> arm64: Support page mapping percpu first chunk allocator
>> kasan: arm64: Fix pcpu_page_first_chunk crash with KASAN_VMALLOC
>>
>> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 4 ++
>> arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c | 16 ++++++++
>> drivers/base/arch_numa.c | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>> include/linux/kasan.h | 6 +++
>> mm/kasan/init.c | 5 +++
>> mm/vmalloc.c | 17 +++++---
>> 6 files changed, 115 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>>
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