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Pavel Tatashin 80b1f41c09 mm: split deferred_init_range into initializing and freeing parts
In deferred_init_range() we initialize struct pages, and also free them
to buddy allocator.  We do it in separate loops, because buddy page is
computed ahead, so we do not want to access a struct page that has not
been initialized yet.

There is still, however, a corner case where it is potentially possible
to access uninitialized struct page: this is when buddy page is from the
next memblock range.

This patch fixes this problem by splitting deferred_init_range() into
two functions: one to initialize struct pages, and another to free them.

In addition, this patch brings the following improvements:
 - Get rid of __def_free() helper function. And simplifies loop logic by
   adding a new pfn validity check function: deferred_pfn_valid().
 - Reduces number of variables that we track. So, there is a higher
   chance that we will avoid using stack to store/load variables inside
   hot loops.
 - Enables future multi-threading of these functions: do initialization
   in multiple threads, wait for all threads to finish, do freeing part
   in multithreading.

Tested on x86 with 1T of memory to make sure no regressions are
introduced.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello in comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171107150446.32055-2-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-01-31 17:18:36 -08:00
arch mm: relax deferred struct page requirements 2018-01-31 17:18:36 -08:00
block Merge branch 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-30 17:58:07 -08:00
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crypto Merge branch 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-30 17:58:07 -08:00
Documentation mm: show total hugetlb memory consumption in /proc/meminfo 2018-01-31 17:18:36 -08:00
drivers First merge window pull request for 4.16 2018-01-31 12:05:10 -08:00
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fs ocfs2: return error when we attempt to access a dirty bh in jbd2 2018-01-31 17:18:35 -08:00
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ipc Merge branch 'work.mqueue' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-30 18:32:21 -08:00
kernel include/linux/sched/mm.h: uninline mmdrop_async(), etc 2018-01-31 17:18:36 -08:00
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