On 07/30/2014 01:51 AM, David Rientjes wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
Hmm, I'm confused at how that could be true, could you explain what
memory other than thp can return true for PageTransHuge()?
PageTransHuge() will be true for any head of compound page if THP is
enabled compile time: hugetlbfs, slab, whatever.
I was meaning in the context of the patch :) Since PageLRU is set, that
discounts slab so we're left with thp or hugetlbfs. Logically, both
should have sizes that are >= the size of the pageblock itself so I'm not
sure why we don't unconditionally align up to pageblock_nr_pages here. Is
there a legitimiate configuration where a pageblock will span multiple
pages of HPAGE_PMD_ORDER?
I think Joonsoo mentioned in some previous iteration that some arches
may have this. But I have no idea.
But perhaps we could use HPAGE_PMD_ORDER instead of compound_order()?
In the locked case we know that PageLRU could not change so it still has
to be a huge page so we know it's possible order.
In the !locked case, I'm now not even sure if the current code is safe
enough. What if we pass the PageLRU check, but before the PageTransHuge
check a compound page (THP or otherwise) materializes and we are at one
of the tail pages. Then in DEBUG_VM configuration, this could fire in
PageTransHuge() check: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageTail(page), page);
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