From: Alastair D'Silva <alast...@d-silva.org> When presented with large amounts of memory being hotplugged (in my test case, ~890GB), the call to flush_dcache_range takes a while (~50 seconds), triggering RCU stalls.
This patch breaks up the call into 1GB chunks, calling cond_resched() inbetween to allow the scheduler to run. Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva <alast...@d-silva.org> --- arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c index 54d61ba15e93..a7b662fc02c8 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c @@ -104,6 +104,27 @@ int __weak remove_section_mapping(unsigned long start, unsigned long end) return -ENODEV; } +#define FLUSH_CHUNK_SIZE SZ_1G +/** + * flush_dcache_range_chunked(): Write any modified data cache blocks out to + * memory and invalidate them, in chunks of up to FLUSH_CHUNK_SIZE + * Does not invalidate the corresponding instruction cache blocks. + * + * @start: the start address + * @stop: the stop address (exclusive) + * @chunk: the max size of the chunks + */ +static void flush_dcache_range_chunked(unsigned long start, unsigned long stop, + unsigned long chunk) +{ + unsigned long i; + + for (i = start; i < stop; i += chunk) { + flush_dcache_range(i, min(stop, start + chunk)); + cond_resched(); + } +} + int __ref arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size, struct mhp_restrictions *restrictions) { @@ -120,7 +141,8 @@ int __ref arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size, start, start + size, rc); return -EFAULT; } - flush_dcache_range(start, start + size); + + flush_dcache_range_chunked(start, start + size, FLUSH_CHUNK_SIZE); return __add_pages(nid, start_pfn, nr_pages, restrictions); } @@ -137,7 +159,8 @@ void __ref arch_remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size, /* Remove htab bolted mappings for this section of memory */ start = (unsigned long)__va(start); - flush_dcache_range(start, start + size); + flush_dcache_range_chunked(start, start + size, FLUSH_CHUNK_SIZE); + ret = remove_section_mapping(start, start + size); WARN_ON_ONCE(ret); -- 2.21.0