On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 03:16:20PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Right now, the migration code in migrate_page_copy() uses
> copy_huge_page() for hugetlbfs and thp pages:
>
> if (PageHuge(page) || PageTransHuge(page))
> copy_huge_page(newpage, page);
>
> So, yay for code reuse. But:
>
> void copy_huge_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src)
> {
> struct hstate *h = page_hstate(src);
>
> and a non-hugetlbfs page has no page_hstate(). This
> works 99% of the time because page_hstate() determines
> the hstate from the page order alone. Since the page
> order of a THP page matches the default hugetlbfs page
> order, it works.
>
> But, if you change the default huge page size on the
> boot command-line (say default_hugepagesz=1G), then
> we might not even *have* a 2MB hstate so page_hstate()
> returns null and copy_huge_page() oopses pretty fast
> since copy_huge_page() dereferences the hstate:
>
> void copy_huge_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src)
> {
> struct hstate *h = page_hstate(src);
> if (unlikely(pages_per_huge_page(h) > MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES)) {
> ...
>
> This patch creates a copy_high_order_page() which can
> be used on THP pages.
We already have copy_user_huge_page() and copy_user_gigantic_page() in
generic code (mm/memory.c). I think copy_gigantic_page() and
copy_huge_page() should be moved there too.
BTW, I think pages_per_huge_page in copy_user_huge_page() is redunand:
compound_order(page) should be enough, right?
--
Kirill A. Shutemov
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