From b92df1de5d289c0b5d653e72414bf0850b8511e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Burton Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:44:53 -0800 Subject: mm: page_alloc: skip over regions of invalid pfns where possible When using a sparse memory model memmap_init_zone() when invoked with the MEMMAP_EARLY context will skip over pages which aren't valid - ie. which aren't in a populated region of the sparse memory map. However if the memory map is extremely sparse then it can spend a long time linearly checking each PFN in a large non-populated region of the memory map & skipping it in turn. When CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP is enabled, we have sufficient information to quickly discover the next valid PFN given an invalid one by searching through the list of memory regions & skipping forwards to the first PFN covered by the memory region to the right of the non-populated region. Implement this in order to speed up memmap_init_zone() for systems with extremely sparse memory maps. James said "I have tested this patch on a virtual model of a Samurai CPU with a sparse memory map. The kernel boot time drops from 109 to 62 seconds. " Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161125185518.29885-1-paul.burton@imgtec.com Signed-off-by: Paul Burton Tested-by: James Hartley Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/page_alloc.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c') diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 05c0a59323bd..6da3169d3750 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -5103,8 +5103,17 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone, if (context != MEMMAP_EARLY) goto not_early; - if (!early_pfn_valid(pfn)) + if (!early_pfn_valid(pfn)) { +#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP + /* + * Skip to the pfn preceding the next valid one (or + * end_pfn), such that we hit a valid pfn (or end_pfn) + * on our next iteration of the loop. + */ + pfn = memblock_next_valid_pfn(pfn, end_pfn) - 1; +#endif continue; + } if (!early_pfn_in_nid(pfn, nid)) continue; if (!update_defer_init(pgdat, pfn, end_pfn, &nr_initialised)) -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151