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    powerpc/mm: Update default hugetlb size early · 2354ad25
    Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
    commit: d9c23400 ("Do not depend on MAX_ORDER when grouping pages by mobility")
    introduced pageblock_order which will be used to group pages better.
    The kernel now groups pages based on the value of HPAGE_SHIFT. Hence HPAGE_SHIFT
    should be set before we call set_pageblock_order.
    
    set_pageblock_order happens early in the boot and default hugetlb page size
    should be initialized before that to compute the right pageblock_order value.
    
    Currently, default hugetlbe page size is set via arch_initcalls which happens
    late in the boot as shown via the below callstack:
    
    [c000000007383b10] [c000000001289328] hugetlbpage_init+0x2b8/0x2f8
    [c000000007383bc0] [c0000000012749e4] do_one_initcall+0x14c/0x320
    [c000000007383c90] [c00000000127505c] kernel_init_freeable+0x410/0x4e8
    [c000000007383da0] [c000000000012664] kernel_init+0x30/0x15c
    [c000000007383e10] [c00000000000cf14] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64
    
    and the pageblock_order initialization is done early during the boot.
    
    [c0000000018bfc80] [c0000000012ae120] set_pageblock_order+0x50/0x64
    [c0000000018bfca0] [c0000000012b3d94] sparse_init+0x188/0x268
    [c0000000018bfd60] [c000000001288bfc] initmem_init+0x28c/0x328
    [c0000000018bfe50] [c00000000127b370] setup_arch+0x410/0x480
    [c0000000018bfed0] [c00000000127401c] start_kernel+0xb8/0x934
    [c0000000018bff90] [c00000000000d984] start_here_common+0x1c/0x98
    
    delaying default hugetlb page size initialization implies the kernel will
    initialize pageblock_order to (MAX_ORDER - 1) which is not an optimal
    value for mobility grouping. IIUC we always had this issue. But it was not
    a problem for hash translation mode because (MAX_ORDER - 1) is the same as
    HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER (8) in the case of hash (16MB). With radix,
    HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER will be 5 (2M size) and hence pageblock_order should be
    5 instead of 8.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220211065215.101767-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
    2354ad25
init_64.c 14.4 KB