On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 06:23:53PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > We're going to allow mapping of individual 4k pages of THP compound. > It means we need to track mapcount on per small page basis. > > Straight-forward approach is to use ->_mapcount in all subpages to track > how many time this subpage is mapped with PMDs or PTEs combined. But > this is rather expensive: mapping or unmapping of a THP page with PMD > would require HPAGE_PMD_NR atomic operations instead of single we have > now. > > The idea is to store separately how many times the page was mapped as > whole -- compound_mapcount. This frees up ->_mapcount in subpages to > track PTE mapcount. > > We use the same approach as with compound page destructor and compound > order to store compound_mapcount: use space in first tail page, > ->mapping this time. > > Any time we map/unmap whole compound page (THP or hugetlb) -- we > increment/decrement compound_mapcount. When we map part of compound page > with PTE we operate on ->_mapcount of the subpage. > > page_mapcount() counts both: PTE and PMD mappings of the page. > > Basically, we have mapcount for a subpage spread over two counters. > It makes tricky to detect when last mapcount for a page goes away. > > We introduced PageDoubleMap() for this. When we split THP PMD for the > first time and there's other PMD mapping left we offset up ->_mapcount > in all subpages by one and set PG_double_map on the compound page. > These additional references go away with last compound_mapcount. > > This approach provides a way to detect when last mapcount goes away on > per small page basis without introducing new overhead for most common > cases. > > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx> I found that recent mmotm hit the following BUG_ON() by reading /proc/kpageflags over pfn backed by a thp. [ 268.024519] page:ffffea00033e0000 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping: (null) index:0x700000200 [ 268.026076] flags: 0x4000000000000000() [ 268.026778] page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead(page)) [ 268.027816] page->mem_cgroup:ffff88021588cc00 [ 268.028638] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 268.029932] kernel BUG at /src/linux-dev/include/linux/page-flags.h:552! [ 268.031092] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC [ 268.032125] Modules linked in: cfg80211 rfkill crc32c_intel virtio_balloon serio_raw i2c_piix4 virtio_blk virtio_net ata_generic pata_acpi [ 268.032598] CPU: 0 PID: 1183 Comm: page-types Not tainted 4.2.0-mmotm-2015-10-21-14-41-151027-1418-00014-41+ #179 [ 268.032598] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 [ 268.032598] task: ffff880214a08bc0 ti: ffff880213e2c000 task.ti: ffff880213e2c000 [ 268.032598] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff812434b6>] [<ffffffff812434b6>] stable_page_flags+0x336/0x340 [ 268.032598] RSP: 0018:ffff880213e2fda8 EFLAGS: 00010292 [ 268.032598] RAX: 0000000000000021 RBX: ffff8802150a39c0 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 268.032598] RDX: ffff88021ec0ff38 RSI: ffff88021ec0d658 RDI: ffff88021ec0d658 [ 268.032598] RBP: ffff880213e2fdc8 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 000000000000132f [ 268.032598] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000132f R12: 4000000000000000 [ 268.032598] R13: ffffea00033e6340 R14: 00007fff8449e430 R15: ffffea00033e6340 [ 268.032598] FS: 00007ff7f9525700(0000) GS:ffff88021ec00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 268.032598] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 268.032598] CR2: 000000000063b800 CR3: 00000000d9e71000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 [ 268.032598] Stack: [ 268.032598] ffff8800db82df80 ffff8802150a39c0 0000000000000008 00000000000cf98d [ 268.032598] ffff880213e2fe18 ffffffff81243588 00007fff8449e430 ffff880213e2ff20 [ 268.032598] 000000000063b800 ffff8802150a39c0 fffffffffffffffb ffff880213e2ff20 [ 268.032598] Call Trace: [ 268.032598] [<ffffffff81243588>] kpageflags_read+0xc8/0x130 [ 268.032598] [<ffffffff81235848>] proc_reg_read+0x48/0x70 [ 268.032598] [<ffffffff811d6b08>] __vfs_read+0x28/0xd0 [ 268.032598] [<ffffffff812ee43e>] ? security_file_permission+0xae/0xc0 [ 268.032598] [<ffffffff811d6f53>] ? rw_verify_area+0x53/0xf0 [ 268.032598] [<ffffffff811d707a>] vfs_read+0x8a/0x130 [ 268.032598] [<ffffffff811d7bf7>] SyS_pread64+0x77/0x90 [ 268.032598] [<ffffffff81648117>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6a [ 268.032598] Code: ca 00 00 40 01 48 39 c1 48 0f 44 da e9 a2 fd ff ff 48 c7 c6 50 a6 a1 8 1 e8 58 ab f4 ff 0f 0b 48 c7 c6 90 a2 a1 81 e8 4a ab f4 ff <0f> 0b 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 66 66 66 90 55 48 89 e5 41 57 [ 268.032598] RIP [<ffffffff812434b6>] stable_page_flags+0x336/0x340 [ 268.032598] RSP <ffff880213e2fda8> [ 268.070504] ---[ end trace e5d18553088c026a ]--- page_mapcount() could be called for a tail page, so VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead()) in PageDoubleMap() introduced by this patch seems too strong restriction. 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