Re: [PATCH] mm: Loosen MADV_NOHUGEPAGE to enable Qemu postcopy on s390

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On 11/12/2015 04:18 PM, Jason J. Herne wrote:
> MADV_NOHUGEPAGE processing is too restrictive. kvm already disables
> hugepage but hugepage_madvise() takes the error path when we ask to turn
> on the MADV_NOHUGEPAGE bit and the bit is already on. This causes Qemu's
> new postcopy migration feature to fail on s390 because its first action is
> to madvise the guest address space as NOHUGEPAGE. This patch modifies the
> code so that the operation succeeds without error now.

maybe add

"For consistency reasons do the same for MADV_HUGEPAGE."

> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason J. Herne <jjherne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>

Andrew, can you queue this patch?


> ---
>  mm/huge_memory.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> index c29ddeb..62fe06b 100644
> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -2009,7 +2009,7 @@ int hugepage_madvise(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  		/*
>  		 * Be somewhat over-protective like KSM for now!
>  		 */
> -		if (*vm_flags & (VM_HUGEPAGE | VM_NO_THP))
> +		if (*vm_flags & VM_NO_THP)
>  			return -EINVAL;
>  		*vm_flags &= ~VM_NOHUGEPAGE;
>  		*vm_flags |= VM_HUGEPAGE;
> @@ -2025,7 +2025,7 @@ int hugepage_madvise(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  		/*
>  		 * Be somewhat over-protective like KSM for now!
>  		 */
> -		if (*vm_flags & (VM_NOHUGEPAGE | VM_NO_THP))
> +		if (*vm_flags & VM_NO_THP)
>  			return -EINVAL;
>  		*vm_flags &= ~VM_HUGEPAGE;
>  		*vm_flags |= VM_NOHUGEPAGE;
> 

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