Re: [RFC PATCH 14/39] KVM: guest_memfd: hugetlb: initialization and cleanup

Ackerley Tng
2025-02-26T18:55:14Z

Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com> writes:

> Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 11:43:45PM +0000, Ackerley Tng wrote:
>>> +/**
>>> + * Removes folios in range [@lstart, @lend) from page cache of inode, updates
>>> + * inode metadata and hugetlb reservations.
>>> + */
>>> +static void kvm_gmem_hugetlb_truncate_folios_range(struct inode *inode,
>>> + loff_t lstart, loff_t lend)
>>> +{
>>> + struct kvm_gmem_hugetlb *hgmem;
>>> + struct hstate *h;
>>> + int gbl_reserve;
>>> + int num_freed;
>>> +
>>> + hgmem = kvm_gmem_hgmem(inode);
>>> + h = hgmem->h;
>>> +
>>> + num_freed = kvm_gmem_hugetlb_filemap_remove_folios(inode->i_mapping,
>>> + h, lstart, lend);
>>> +
>>> + gbl_reserve = hugepage_subpool_put_pages(hgmem->spool, num_freed);
>>> + hugetlb_acct_memory(h, -gbl_reserve);
>>
>> I wonder whether this is needed, and whether hugetlb_acct_memory() needs to
>> be exported in the other patch.
>>
>> IIUC subpools manages the global reservation on its own when min_pages is
>> set (which should be gmem's case, where both max/min set to gmem size).
>> That's in hugepage_put_subpool() -> unlock_or_release_subpool().
>>
>
> Thank you for pointing this out! You are right and I will remove
> hugetlb_acct_memory() from here.
>

I looked further at the folio cleanup process in free_huge_folio() and I
realized I should be returning the pages to the subpool via
free_huge_folio(). There should be no call to
hugepage_subpool_put_pages() directly from this truncate function.

To use free_huge_folio() to return the pages to the subpool, I will
clear the restore_reserve flag once guest_memfd allocates a folio. All
the guest_memfd hugetlb folios will always have the restore_reserve flag
cleared.

With the restore_reserve flag cleared, free_huge_folio() will do
hugepage_subpool_put_pages(), and then restore the reservation in hstate
as well.

Returning the folio to the subpool on freeing is important and correct,
since if/when the folio_put() callback is used, the filemap may not hold
the last refcount on the folio, so truncation may not be when the folio
should not be returned to the subpool.

>>> +
>>> + spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
>>> + inode->i_blocks -= blocks_per_huge_page(h) * num_freed;
>>> + spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
>>> +}