On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 01:50:58PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 04:41:52PM +0900, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> > If one of callers of page migration starts to handle thp, memory management code
> > start to see pmd migration entry, so we need to prepare for it before enabling.
> > This patch changes various code point which checks the status of given pmds in
> > order to prevent race between thp migration and the pmd-related works.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/mm/gup.c | 3 +++
> > fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 25 +++++++++++++--------
> > mm/gup.c | 8 +++++++
> > mm/huge_memory.c | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> > mm/memcontrol.c | 2 ++
> > mm/memory.c | 5 +++++
> > 6 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git v4.5-rc5-mmotm-2016-02-24-16-18/arch/x86/mm/gup.c v4.5-rc5-mmotm-2016-02-24-16-18_patched/arch/x86/mm/gup.c
> > index f8d0b5e..34c3d43 100644
> > --- v4.5-rc5-mmotm-2016-02-24-16-18/arch/x86/mm/gup.c
> > +++ v4.5-rc5-mmotm-2016-02-24-16-18_patched/arch/x86/mm/gup.c
> > @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
> > #include <linux/highmem.h>
> > #include <linux/swap.h>
> > #include <linux/memremap.h>
> > +#include <linux/swapops.h>
> >
> > #include <asm/pgtable.h>
> >
> > @@ -210,6 +211,8 @@ static int gup_pmd_range(pud_t pud, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
> > if (pmd_none(pmd))
> > return 0;
> > if (unlikely(pmd_large(pmd) || !pmd_present(pmd))) {
> > + if (unlikely(is_pmd_migration_entry(pmd)))
> > + return 0;
>
> Hm. I've expected to see bunch of pmd_none() to pmd_present() conversions.
> That's seems a right way guard the code. Otherwise we wound need even more
> checks once PMD-level swap is implemented.
Yes, I agree. I'll try some for this pmd_none/pmd_present issue.
Thanks,
Naoya
>
> I think we need to check for migration entires only if we have something
> to do with migration. In all other cases pmd_present() should be enough to
> bail out.
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