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authorDoug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>2020-08-20 17:42:24 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-08-21 09:52:53 -0700
commite08d3fdfe2dafa0331843f70ce1ff6c1c4900bf4 (patch)
treecfc00df48ff5e11a3768e9d3ca2aec981a34c97f
parentf26044c83e6e473a61917f5db411d1417327d425 (diff)
mm: include CMA pages in lowmem_reserve at boot
The lowmem_reserve arrays provide a means of applying pressure against allocations from lower zones that were targeted at higher zones. Its values are a function of the number of pages managed by higher zones and are assigned by a call to the setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve() function. The function is initially called at boot time by the function init_per_zone_wmark_min() and may be called later by accesses of the /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio sysctl file. The function init_per_zone_wmark_min() was moved up from a module_init to a core_initcall to resolve a sequencing issue with khugepaged. Unfortunately this created a sequencing issue with CMA page accounting. The CMA pages are added to the managed page count of a zone when cma_init_reserved_areas() is called at boot also as a core_initcall. This makes it uncertain whether the CMA pages will be added to the managed page counts of their zones before or after the call to init_per_zone_wmark_min() as it becomes dependent on link order. With the current link order the pages are added to the managed count after the lowmem_reserve arrays are initialized at boot. This means the lowmem_reserve values at boot may be lower than the values used later if /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio is accessed even if the ratio values are unchanged. In many cases the difference is not significant, but for example an ARM platform with 1GB of memory and the following memory layout cma: Reserved 256 MiB at 0x0000000030000000 Zone ranges: DMA [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000002fffffff] Normal empty HighMem [mem 0x0000000030000000-0x000000003fffffff] would result in 0 lowmem_reserve for the DMA zone. This would allow userspace to deplete the DMA zone easily. Funnily enough $ cat /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio would fix up the situation because as a side effect it forces setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve. This commit breaks the link order dependency by invoking init_per_zone_wmark_min() as a postcore_initcall so that the CMA pages have the chance to be properly accounted in their zone(s) and allowing the lowmem_reserve arrays to receive consistent values. Fixes: bc22af74f271 ("mm: update min_free_kbytes from khugepaged after core initialization") Signed-off-by: Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1597423766-27849-1-git-send-email-opendmb@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 0e2bab486fea..f4b3b91bbe7f 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -7888,7 +7888,7 @@ int __meminit init_per_zone_wmark_min(void)
return 0;
}
-core_initcall(init_per_zone_wmark_min)
+postcore_initcall(init_per_zone_wmark_min)
/*
* min_free_kbytes_sysctl_handler - just a wrapper around proc_dointvec() so