[PATCH] arm64: numa: rightsize the distance array

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 19:38:25 +0800
Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron at huawei.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately we are currently calling numa_alloc_distance well before we call
> setup_node_to_cpu_mask_map means that nr_node_ids is set to MAX_NUMNODES.
> This wastes a bit of memory and is confusing to the reader.
> 
> Note we could just decide to hardcode it as MAX_NUMNODES but if so we should
> do so explicitly.
> 
> Looking at what x86 does, they do a walk of nodes_parsed and locally
> establish the maximum node count seen.  We can't actually do that where we
> were previously calling it in numa_init because nodes_parsed isn't set up
> either yet.  So let us take a leaf entirely out of x86's book and make
> the true assumption that nodes_parsed will definitely be set up before
> we try to put a real value in this array.  Hence just do it on demand.
> 
> In order to avoid trying and failing to allocate the array multiple times
> we do the same thing as x86 and set numa_distance = 1. This requires a
> few small modifications elsewhere.
> 
> Worth noting, that with one exception (which it appears can be removed [1])
> the x86 and arm numa distance code is now identical.  Worth factoring it
> out to some common location?
> 
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170406124459.dwn5zhpr2xqg3lqm@node.shutemov.name
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron at huawei.com>

Polite nudge.  Anyone?  No particular urgency on this one but I'm thinking
of taking a stab at factoring out this code into a common location for arm64
and x86 and this change needs to proceed that.

Thanks,

Jonathan


> ---
> arch/arm64/mm/numa.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/numa.c b/arch/arm64/mm/numa.c
> index aafcee3e3f7e..a2f549ef0a36 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/numa.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/numa.c
> @@ -255,13 +255,11 @@ void __init numa_free_distance(void)
>  {
>  	size_t size;
>  
> -	if (!numa_distance)
> -		return;
> -
>  	size = numa_distance_cnt * numa_distance_cnt *
>  		sizeof(numa_distance[0]);
> -
> -	memblock_free(__pa(numa_distance), size);
> +	/* numa_distance could be 1LU marking allocation failure, test cnt */
> +	if (numa_distance_cnt)
> +		memblock_free(__pa(numa_distance), size);
>  	numa_distance_cnt = 0;
>  	numa_distance = NULL;
>  }
> @@ -271,20 +269,29 @@ void __init numa_free_distance(void)
>   */
>  static int __init numa_alloc_distance(void)
>  {
> +	nodemask_t nodes_parsed;
>  	size_t size;
> +	int i, j, cnt = 0;
>  	u64 phys;
> -	int i, j;
>  
> -	size = nr_node_ids * nr_node_ids * sizeof(numa_distance[0]);
> +	/* size the new table and allocate it */
> +	nodes_parsed = numa_nodes_parsed;
> +	for_each_node_mask(i, nodes_parsed)
> +		cnt = i;
> +	cnt++;
> +	size = cnt * cnt * sizeof(numa_distance[0]);
>  	phys = memblock_find_in_range(0, PFN_PHYS(max_pfn),
>  				      size, PAGE_SIZE);
> -	if (WARN_ON(!phys))
> +	if (!phys) {
> +		pr_warn("Warning: can't allocate distance table!\n");
> +		/* don't retry until explicitly reset */
> +		numa_distance = (void *)1LU;
>  		return -ENOMEM;
> -
> +	}
>  	memblock_reserve(phys, size);
>  
>  	numa_distance = __va(phys);
> -	numa_distance_cnt = nr_node_ids;
> +	numa_distance_cnt = cnt;
>  
>  	/* fill with the default distances */
>  	for (i = 0; i < numa_distance_cnt; i++)
> @@ -311,10 +318,8 @@ static int __init numa_alloc_distance(void)
>   */
>  void __init numa_set_distance(int from, int to, int distance)
>  {
> -	if (!numa_distance) {
> -		pr_warn_once("Warning: distance table not allocated yet\n");
> +	if (!numa_distance && numa_alloc_distance() < 0)
>  		return;
> -	}
>  
>  	if (from >= numa_distance_cnt || to >= numa_distance_cnt ||
>  			from < 0 || to < 0) {
> @@ -384,10 +389,6 @@ static int __init numa_init(int (*init_func)(void))
>  	nodes_clear(node_possible_map);
>  	nodes_clear(node_online_map);
>  
> -	ret = numa_alloc_distance();
> -	if (ret < 0)
> -		return ret;
> -
>  	ret = init_func();
>  	if (ret < 0)
>  		goto out_free_distance;