On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 01:52:38PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > Ok, makes sense.
> > __GFP_THISNODE will not allow fallback to other node's zones.
> > Since we only allow the nid the page belongs to, nodemask should be
> > NULL, right?
>
> I would have to double check because hugetlb has a slightly different
> expectations from nodemask than the page allocator. The later translates
> that to all possible nodes but hugetlb API tries to dereference nodes.
> Maybe THIS node special cases it somewhere.
Uhm, I do not quite follow here.
AFAICS, alloc_fresh_huge_page->alloc_buddy_huge_page does nothing
with the nodemask, bur rather with nodes_retry mask. That is done
to not retry on a node we failed to allocate a page.
Now, alloc_buddy_huge_page calls __alloc_pages_nodemask directly.
If my understanding is correct, it is ok to have a null nodemask
as __next_zones_zonelist() will go through our own zonelist,
since __GFP_THISNODE made us take ZONELIST_NOFALLBACK.
Actually, I do not see how passing a non-null nodemask migth have
helped there, unless we allow to specify more nodes.
> > I did. The 'put_page' call should be placed above, right after getting
> > the page. Otherwise, refcount == 1 and we will fail to dissolve the
> > new page if we need to (in case old page fails to be dissolved).
> > I already fixed that locally.
>
> I am not sure I follow. newly allocated pages is unreferenced
> unconditionally and the old page is not referenced by this path.
Current code is:
allocate_a_new_page (new_page's refcount = 1)
dissolve_old_page
: if fail
dissolve_new_page (we cannot dissolve it refcount != 0)
put_page(new_page);
It should be:
allocate_a_new_page (new_page's refcount = 1)
put_page(new_page); (new_page's refcount = 0)
dissolve_old_page
: if fail
dissolve_new_page (we can dissolve it as refcount == 0)
I hope this clarifies it .
--
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3
