mm/sparse.c: do not waste pre allocated memmap space
Vincent has noticed [1] that there is something unusual with the memmap allocations going on on his platform : I noticed this because on my ARM64 platform, with 1 GiB of memory the : first [and only] section is allocated from the zeroing path while with : 2 GiB of memory the first 1 GiB section is allocated from the : non-zeroing path. The underlying problem is that although sparse_buffer_init allocates enough memory for all sections on the node sparse_buffer_alloc is not able to consume them due to mismatch in the expected allocation alignement. While sparse_buffer_init preallocation uses the PAGE_SIZE alignment the real memmap has to be aligned to section_map_size() this results in a wasted initial chunk of the preallocated memmap and unnecessary fallback allocation for a section. While we are at it also change __populate_section_memmap to align to the requested size because at least VMEMMAP has constrains to have memmap properly aligned. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191030131122.8256-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak layout, per David] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191119092642.31799-1-mhocko@kernel.org Fixes: 35fd1eb1 ("mm/sparse: abstract sparse buffer allocations") Signed-off-by:Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reported-by:
Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com> Debugged-by:
Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com> Acked-by:
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <OSalvador@suse.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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