[PATCH v4 7/7] mm/mm_init: Use for_each_valid_pfn() in init_unavailable_range()
David Hildenbrand
david at redhat.com
Fri Apr 25 09:17:25 PDT 2025
On 23.04.25 15:33, David Woodhouse wrote:
> From: David Woodhouse <dwmw at amazon.co.uk>
>
> Currently, memmap_init initializes pfn_hole with 0 instead of
> ARCH_PFN_OFFSET. Then init_unavailable_range will start iterating each
> page from the page at address zero to the first available page, but it
> won't do anything for pages below ARCH_PFN_OFFSET because pfn_valid
> won't pass.
>
> If ARCH_PFN_OFFSET is very large (e.g., something like 2^64-2GiB if the
> kernel is used as a library and loaded at a very high address), the
> pointless iteration for pages below ARCH_PFN_OFFSET will take a very
> long time, and the kernel will look stuck at boot time.
>
> Use for_each_valid_pfn() to skip the pointless iterations.
>
> Reported-by: Ruihan Li <lrh2000 at pku.edu.cn>
> Suggested-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw at amazon.co.uk>
> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt at kernel.org>
> Tested-by: Ruihan Li <lrh2000 at pku.edu.cn>
> ---
> mm/mm_init.c | 6 +-----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/mm_init.c b/mm/mm_init.c
> index 41884f2155c4..0d1a4546825c 100644
> --- a/mm/mm_init.c
> +++ b/mm/mm_init.c
> @@ -845,11 +845,7 @@ static void __init init_unavailable_range(unsigned long spfn,
> unsigned long pfn;
> u64 pgcnt = 0;
>
> - for (pfn = spfn; pfn < epfn; pfn++) {
> - if (!pfn_valid(pageblock_start_pfn(pfn))) {
> - pfn = pageblock_end_pfn(pfn) - 1;
> - continue;
> - }
So, if the first pfn in a pageblock is not valid, we skip the whole
pageblock ...
> + for_each_valid_pfn(pfn, spfn, epfn) {
> __init_single_page(pfn_to_page(pfn), pfn, zone, node);
> __SetPageReserved(pfn_to_page(pfn));
> pgcnt++;
but here, we would process further pfns inside such a pageblock?
--
Cheers,
David / dhildenb
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