On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:11:26AM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> 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.
I agree this.
> BTW, I think pages_per_huge_page in copy_user_huge_page() is redunand:
> compound_order(page) should be enough, right?
I guess that thp code is very strict on performance, so developers chose
to pass it as an argument instead of calculating compound_order in each call.
I think the performance gain is small (maybe invisible),
but it's not a bad idea to me.
Thanks,
Naoya
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