From: Simon Jeons <simon.jeons@gmail.com>
To: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] migrate: add migrate_entry_wait_huge()
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:36:53 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <514A4815.4040206@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1363816399-c6e7mofc-mutt-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Hi Naoya,
On 03/21/2013 05:53 AM, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 07:57:32AM +0800, Simon Jeons wrote:
>> Hi Naoya,
>> On 02/22/2013 03:41 AM, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
>>> When we have a page fault for the address which is backed by a hugepage
>>> under migration, the kernel can't wait correctly until the migration
>>> finishes. This is because pte_offset_map_lock() can't get a correct
>> It seems that current hugetlb_fault still wait hugetlb page under
>> migration, how can it work without lock 2MB memory?
> Hugetlb_fault() does call migration_entry_wait(), but returns immediately.
Could you point out to me which code in function migration_entry_wait()
lead to return immediately?
> So page fault happens over and over again until the migration completes.
> IOW, migration_entry_wait() is now broken for hugepage and doesn't work
> as expected.
>
> Thanks,
> Naoya
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-21 19:41 [RFC][PATCH 0/9] extend hugepage migration Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 1/9] migrate: add migrate_entry_wait_huge() Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-18 14:51 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-19 0:06 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-19 23:57 ` Simon Jeons
2013-03-20 21:53 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-20 23:36 ` Simon Jeons [this message]
2013-04-04 4:57 ` Simon Jeons
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 2/9] migrate: make core migration code aware of hugepage Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-18 15:22 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-18 15:33 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-19 0:06 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 3/9] soft-offline: use migrate_pages() instead of migrate_huge_page() Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-27 7:25 ` Chen Gong
2013-02-27 17:06 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-27 17:57 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 4/9] migrate: clean up migrate_huge_page() Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 5/9] migrate: enable migrate_pages() to migrate hugepage Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-18 15:40 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-19 0:07 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-19 7:11 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-20 6:12 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-20 7:41 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-20 0:31 ` Simon Jeons
2013-03-20 21:59 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-21 0:06 ` Simon Jeons
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 6/9] migrate: enable move_pages() " Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 7/9] mbind: enable mbind() " Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 8/9] memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-23 7:05 ` Hillf Danton
2013-02-25 16:57 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-27 7:36 ` Chen Gong
2013-02-27 17:16 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-18 16:07 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-20 3:55 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-20 7:57 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-20 1:03 ` Simon Jeons
2013-03-20 22:05 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-20 23:55 ` Simon Jeons
2013-02-21 19:41 ` [PATCH 9/9] remove /proc/sys/vm/hugepages_treat_as_movable Naoya Horiguchi
2013-02-28 6:02 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-02-28 18:16 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-18 15:51 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-19 0:07 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-19 23:43 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/9] extend hugepage migration Simon Jeons
2013-03-20 21:35 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-03-20 23:49 ` Simon Jeons
2013-03-21 12:56 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-21 23:46 ` Simon Jeons
[not found] ` <20130322081532.GC31457@dhcp22.suse.cz>
2013-04-05 1:14 ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-05 8:08 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-05 9:00 ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-05 9:30 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-07 0:32 ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-07 14:05 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
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