Re: [RFC PATCH 3/6] mm: page_owner: add support for splitting to any order in split page_owner.

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On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 08:08:58PM -0500, Zi Yan wrote:
> On 13 Nov 2020, at 19:15, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 03:40:05PM -0500, Zi Yan wrote:
> > > From: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > It adds a new_order parameter to set new page order in page owner.
> > > It prepares for upcoming changes to support split huge page to any
> > > lower
> > > order.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  include/linux/page_owner.h | 7 ++++---
> > >  mm/huge_memory.c           | 2 +-
> > >  mm/page_alloc.c            | 2 +-
> > >  mm/page_owner.c            | 6 +++---
> > >  4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/page_owner.h b/include/linux/page_owner.h
> > > index 3468794f83d2..215cbb159568 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/page_owner.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/page_owner.h
> > > @@ -31,10 +31,11 @@ static inline void set_page_owner(struct page
> > > *page,
> > >  		__set_page_owner(page, order, gfp_mask);
> > >  }
> > > 
> > > -static inline void split_page_owner(struct page *page, unsigned int
> > > nr)
> > > +static inline void split_page_owner(struct page *page, unsigned int
> > > nr,
> > > +			unsigned int new_order)
> > >  {
> > >  	if (static_branch_unlikely(&page_owner_inited))
> > > -		__split_page_owner(page, nr);
> > > +		__split_page_owner(page, nr, new_order);
> > >  }
> > >  static inline void copy_page_owner(struct page *oldpage, struct
> > > page *newpage)
> > >  {
> > > @@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ static inline void set_page_owner(struct page
> > > *page,
> > >  {
> > >  }
> > >  static inline void split_page_owner(struct page *page,
> > > -			unsigned int order)
> > > +			unsigned int nr, unsigned int new_order)
> > 
> > With the addition of the new argument it's a bit hard to understand
> > what the function is supposed to do. It seems like nr ==
> > page_order(page),
> > is it right? Maybe we can pass old_order and new_order? Or just the page
> > and the new order?
> 
> Yeah, it is a bit confusing. Please see more below.
> 
> > 
> > >  {
> > >  }
> > >  static inline void copy_page_owner(struct page *oldpage, struct
> > > page *newpage)
> > > diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> > > index f599f5b9bf7f..8b7d771ee962 100644
> > > --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> > > +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> > > @@ -2459,7 +2459,7 @@ static void __split_huge_page(struct page
> > > *page, struct list_head *list,
> > > 
> > >  	ClearPageCompound(head);
> > > 
> > > -	split_page_owner(head, nr);
> > > +	split_page_owner(head, nr, 1);
> > > 
> > >  	/* See comment in __split_huge_page_tail() */
> > >  	if (PageAnon(head)) {
> > > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > > index d77220615fd5..a9eead0e091a 100644
> > > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> > > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > > @@ -3284,7 +3284,7 @@ void split_page(struct page *page, unsigned
> > > int order)
> > > 
> > >  	for (i = 1; i < (1 << order); i++)
> > >  		set_page_refcounted(page + i);
> > > -	split_page_owner(page, 1 << order);
> > > +	split_page_owner(page, 1 << order, 1);
> > >  }
> > >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(split_page);
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/mm/page_owner.c b/mm/page_owner.c
> > > index b735a8eafcdb..2b7f7e9056dc 100644
> > > --- a/mm/page_owner.c
> > > +++ b/mm/page_owner.c
> > > @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ void __set_page_owner_migrate_reason(struct page
> > > *page, int reason)
> > >  	page_owner->last_migrate_reason = reason;
> > >  }
> > > 
> > > -void __split_page_owner(struct page *page, unsigned int nr)
> > > +void __split_page_owner(struct page *page, unsigned int nr,
> > > unsigned int new_order)
> > >  {
> > >  	int i;
> > >  	struct page_ext *page_ext = lookup_page_ext(page);
> > > @@ -213,9 +213,9 @@ void __split_page_owner(struct page *page,
> > > unsigned int nr)
> > >  	if (unlikely(!page_ext))
> > >  		return;
> > > 
> > > -	for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
> > > +	for (i = 0; i < nr; i += (1 << new_order)) {
> > >  		page_owner = get_page_owner(page_ext);
> > > -		page_owner->order = 0;
> > > +		page_owner->order = new_order;
> > >  		page_ext = page_ext_next(page_ext);
> > 
> > I believe there cannot be any leftovers because nr is always a power of
> > 2.
> > Is it true? Converting nr argument to order (if it's possible) will make
> > it obvious.
> 
> Right. nr = thp_nr_pages(head), which is a power of 2. There would not be
> any
> leftover.
> 
> Matthew recently converted split_page_owner to take nr instead of order.[1]
> But I am not
> sure why, since it seems to me that two call sites (__split_huge_page in
> mm/huge_memory.c and split_page in mm/page_alloc.c) can pass the order
> information.

Yeah, I'm not sure why too. Maybe Matthew has some input here?
You can also pass new_nr, but IMO orders look so much better here.

Thanks!




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