Re: [PATCH v5] mm/mempolicy: Checking hugepage migration is supported by arch in vma_migratable

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On Thu 23-01-20 13:29:39, Li Xinhai wrote:
> vma_migratable() is called to check if pages in vma can be migrated
> before go ahead to further actions. Currently it is used in below code
> path:
> - task_numa_work
> - mbind
> - move_pages
> 
> For hugetlb mapping, whether vma is migratable or not is determined by:
> - CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION
> - arch_hugetlb_migration_supported
> 
> Issue: current code only checks for CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION
> alone, and  no code should use it directly. (note that current code in
> vma_migratable don't cause failure or bug because
> unmap_and_move_huge_page() will catch unsupported hugepage and handle it
> properly)
> 
> This patch checks the two factors by hugepage_migration_supported for
> impoving code logic and robustness. It will enable early bail out of
> hugepage migration procedure, but because currently all architecture
> supporting hugepage migration is able to support all page size, we would
> not see performance gain with this patch applied.
> 
> vma_migratable() is moved to mm/mempolicy.c, because of the circular
> reference of mempolicy.h and hugetlb.h cause defining it as inline not
> feasible.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Li Xinhai <lixinhai.lxh@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks!
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs




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