On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 8:38 AM Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 11/10/20 7:41 PM, Muchun Song wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 8:47 AM Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 11/8/20 6:10 AM, Muchun Song wrote:
> >> I am reading the code incorrectly it does not appear page->lru (of the huge
> >> page) is being used for this purpose. Is that correct?
> >>
> >> If it is correct, would using page->lru of the huge page make this code
> >> simpler? I am just missing the reason why you are using
> >> page_huge_pte(page)->lru
> >
> > For 1GB HugeTLB pages, we should pre-allocate more than one page
> > table. So I use a linked list. The page_huge_pte(page) is the list head.
> > Because the page->lru shares storage with page->pmd_huge_pte.
>
> Sorry, but I do not understand the statement page->lru shares storage with
> page->pmd_huge_pte. Are you saying they are both in head struct page of
> the huge page?
>
> Here is what I was suggesting. If we just use page->lru for the list
> then vmemmap_pgtable_prealloc() could be coded like the following:
>
> static int vmemmap_pgtable_prealloc(struct hstate *h, struct page *page)
> {
> struct page *pte_page, *t_page;
> unsigned int nr = pgtable_pages_to_prealloc_per_hpage(h);
>
> if (!nr)
> return 0;
>
> /* Store preallocated pages on huge page lru list */
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page->lru);
>
> while (nr--) {
> pte_t *pte_p;
>
> pte_p = pte_alloc_one_kernel(&init_mm);
> if (!pte_p)
> goto out;
> list_add(&virt_to_page(pte_p)->lru, &page->lru);
> }
>
> return 0;
> out:
> list_for_each_entry_safe(pte_page, t_page, &page->lru, lru)
> pte_free_kernel(&init_mm, page_to_virt(pte_page));
> return -ENOMEM;
> }
>
> By doing this we could eliminate the routines,
> vmemmap_pgtable_init()
> vmemmap_pgtable_deposit()
> vmemmap_pgtable_withdraw()
> and simply use the list manipulation routines.
Now I know what you mean. Yeah, just use page->lru can make code
simply. Thanks for your suggestions.
>
> To me, that looks simpler than the proposed code in this patch.
> --
> Mike Kravetz
--
Yours,
Muchun
