On Mon 18-03-13 20:07:16, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 04:40:57PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Thu 21-02-13 14:41:44, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
[...]
> > > @@ -3202,3 +3202,13 @@ void putback_active_hugepages(struct list_head *l)
> > > list_for_each_entry_safe(page, page2, l, lru)
> > > putback_active_hugepage(page);
> > > }
> > > +
> > > +void migrate_hugepage_add(struct page *page, struct list_head *list)
> > > +{
> > > + VM_BUG_ON(!PageHuge(page));
> > > + get_page(page);
> > > + spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
> >
> > Why hugetlb_lock? Comment for this lock says that it protects
> > hugepage_freelists, nr_huge_pages, and free_huge_pages.
>
> I think that this comment is out of date and hugepage_activelists,
> which was introduced recently, should be protected because this
> patchset adds is_hugepage_movable() which runs through the list.
> So I'll update the comment in the next post.
>
> > > + list_move_tail(&page->lru, list);
> > > + spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
> > > + return;
> > > +}
> > > diff --git v3.8.orig/mm/mempolicy.c v3.8/mm/mempolicy.c
> > > index e2df1c1..8627135 100644
> > > --- v3.8.orig/mm/mempolicy.c
> > > +++ v3.8/mm/mempolicy.c
> > > @@ -525,6 +525,27 @@ static int check_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
> > > return addr != end;
> > > }
> > >
> > > +static void check_hugetlb_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
> > > + const nodemask_t *nodes, unsigned long flags,
> > > + void *private)
> > > +{
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
> > > + int nid;
> > > + struct page *page;
> > > +
> > > + spin_lock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
> > > + page = pte_page(huge_ptep_get((pte_t *)pmd));
> > > + spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
> >
> > I am a bit confused why page_table_lock is used here and why it doesn't
> > cover the page usage.
>
> I expected this function to do the same for pmd as check_pte_range() does
> for pte, but the above code didn't do it. I should've put spin_unlock
> below migrate_hugepage_add(). Sorry for the confusion.
OK, I see. So you want to prevent from racing with pmd unmap.
> > > + nid = page_to_nid(page);
> > > + if (node_isset(nid, *nodes) != !!(flags & MPOL_MF_INVERT)
> > > + && ((flags & MPOL_MF_MOVE && page_mapcount(page) == 1)
> > > + || flags & MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL))
> > > + migrate_hugepage_add(page, private);
> > > +#else
> > > + BUG();
> > > +#endif
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > static inline int check_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pud_t *pud,
> > > unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
> > > const nodemask_t *nodes, unsigned long flags,
> > > @@ -536,6 +557,11 @@ static inline int check_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pud_t *pud,
> > > pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
> > > do {
> > > next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
> > > + if (pmd_huge(*pmd) && is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) {
> >
> > Why an explicit check for is_vm_hugetlb_page here? Isn't pmd_huge()
> > sufficient?
>
> I think we need both check here because if we use only pmd_huge(),
> pmd for thp goes into this branch wrongly.
Bahh. You are right. I thought that pmd_huge is hugetlb thingy but it
obviously checks only _PAGE_PSE same as pmd_large() which is really
unfortunate and confusing. Can we make it hugetlb specific?
>
> Thanks,
> Naoya
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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