Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] Buglet in 16G page handling

Jon Tollefson
2008-09-04T21:08:37Z

Jon Tollefson wrote:
> David Gibson wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 12:12:27PM -0500, Jon Tollefson wrote:
>>
>>
>>> David Gibson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> When BenH and I were looking at the new code for handling 16G pages,
>>>> we noticed a small bug. It doesn't actually break anything user
>>>> visible, but it's certainly not the way things are supposed to be.
>>>> The 16G patches didn't update the huge_pte_offset() and
>>>> huge_pte_alloc() functions, which means that the hugepte tables for
>>>> 16G pages will be allocated much further down the page table tree than
>>>> they should be - allocating several levels of page table with a single
>>>> entry in them along the way.
>>>>
>>>> The patch below is supposed to fix this, cleaning up the existing
>>>> handling of 64k vs 16M pages while its at it. However, it needs some
>>>> testing.
>>>>
>>>> I've checked that it doesn't break existing 16M support, either with
>>>> 4k or 64k base pages. I haven't figured out how to test with 64k
>>>> pages yet, at least until the multisize support goes into
>>>> libhugetlbfs. For 16G pages, I just don't have access to a machine
>>>> with enough memory to test. Jon, presumably you must have found such
>>>> a machine when you did the 16G page support in the first place. Do
>>>> you still have access, and can you test this patch?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I do have access to a machine to test it. I applied the patch to -rc4
>>> and used a pseries_defconfig. I boot with
>>> default_hugepagesz=16G... in order to test huge page sizes other then
>>> 16M at this point.
>>>
>>> Running the libhugetlbfs test suite it gets as far as Readback (64):
>>> PASS
>>> before it hits the following program check.
>>>
>>>
>> Ah, yes, oops, forgot to fix up the pagetable freeing path in line
>> with the other changes. Try the revised version below.
>>
>>
> I have run through the tests twice now with this new patch using a 4k
> base page size(and 16G huge page size) and there are no program checks
> or spin lock issues. So looking good.
>
> I will run it next a couple of times with 64K base pages.
>
I have run through the libhugetest suite 3 times each now with both
combinations(4k and 64K base page) and have not seen the spin lock
problem or any other problems.

Acked-by: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> Jon
>
>
>
>
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>> Index: working-2.6/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- working-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c 2008-09-02 11:50:12.000000000 +1000
>> +++ working-2.6/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c 2008-09-03 10:10:54.000000000 +1000
>> @@ -128,29 +128,37 @@ static int __hugepte_alloc(struct mm_str
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> -/* Base page size affects how we walk hugetlb page tables */
>> -#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES
>> -#define hpmd_offset(pud, addr, h) pmd_offset(pud, addr)
>> -#define hpmd_alloc(mm, pud, addr, h) pmd_alloc(mm, pud, addr)
>> -#else
>> -static inline
>> -pmd_t *hpmd_offset(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr, struct hstate *hstate)
>> +
>> +static pud_t *hpud_offset(pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long addr, struct hstate *hstate)
>> +{
>> + if (huge_page_shift(hstate) < PUD_SHIFT)
>> + return pud_offset(pgd, addr);
>> + else
>> + return (pud_t *) pgd;
>> +}
>> +static pud_t *hpud_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long addr,
>> + struct hstate *hstate)
>> {
>> - if (huge_page_shift(hstate) == PAGE_SHIFT_64K)
>> + if (huge_page_shift(hstate) < PUD_SHIFT)
>> + return pud_alloc(mm, pgd, addr);
>> + else
>> + return (pud_t *) pgd;
>> +}
>> +static pmd_t *hpmd_offset(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr, struct hstate *hstate)
>> +{
>> + if (huge_page_shift(hstate) < PMD_SHIFT)
>> return pmd_offset(pud, addr);
>> else
>> return (pmd_t *) pud;
>> }
>> -static inline
>> -pmd_t *hpmd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr,
>> - struct hstate *hstate)
>> +static pmd_t *hpmd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr,
>> + struct hstate *hstate)
>> {
>> - if (huge_page_shift(hstate) == PAGE_SHIFT_64K)
>> + if (huge_page_shift(hstate) < PMD_SHIFT)
>> return pmd_alloc(mm, pud, addr);
>> else
>> return (pmd_t *) pud;
>> }
>> -#endif
>>
>> /* Build list of addresses of gigantic pages. This function is used in early
>> * boot before the buddy or bootmem allocator is setup.
>> @@ -204,7 +212,7 @@ pte_t *huge_pte_offset(struct mm_struct
>>
>> pg = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
>> if (!pgd_none(*pg)) {
>> - pu = pud_offset(pg, addr);
>> + pu = hpud_offset(pg, addr, hstate);
>> if (!pud_none(*pu)) {
>> pm = hpmd_offset(pu, addr, hstate);
>> if (!pmd_none(*pm))
>> @@ -233,7 +241,7 @@ pte_t *huge_pte_alloc(struct mm_struct *
>> addr &= hstate->mask;
>>
>> pg = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
>> - pu = pud_alloc(mm, pg, addr);
>> + pu = hpud_alloc(mm, pg, addr, hstate);
>>
>> if (pu) {
>> pm = hpmd_alloc(mm, pu, addr, hstate);
>> @@ -316,13 +324,7 @@ static void hugetlb_free_pud_range(struc
>> pud = pud_offset(pgd, addr);
>> do {
>> next = pud_addr_end(addr, end);
>> -#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES
>> - if (pud_none_or_clear_bad(pud))
>> - continue;
>> - hugetlb_free_pmd_range(tlb, pud, addr, next, floor, ceiling,
>> - psize);
>> -#else
>> - if (shift == PAGE_SHIFT_64K) {
>> + if (shift < PMD_SHIFT) {
>> if (pud_none_or_clear_bad(pud))
>> continue;
>> hugetlb_free_pmd_range(tlb, pud, addr, next, floor,
>> @@ -332,7 +334,6 @@ static void hugetlb_free_pud_range(struc
>> continue;
>> free_hugepte_range(tlb, (hugepd_t *)pud, psize);
>> }
>> -#endif
>> } while (pud++, addr = next, addr != end);
>>
>> start &= PGDIR_MASK;
>> @@ -422,9 +423,15 @@ void hugetlb_free_pgd_range(struct mmu_g
>> psize = get_slice_psize(tlb->mm, addr);
>> BUG_ON(!mmu_huge_psizes[psize]);
>> next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
>> - if (pgd_none_or_clear_bad(pgd))
>> - continue;
>> - hugetlb_free_pud_range(tlb, pgd, addr, next, floor, ceiling);
>> + if (mmu_psize_to_shift(psize) < PUD_SHIFT) {
>> + if (pgd_none_or_clear_bad(pgd))
>> + continue;
>> + hugetlb_free_pud_range(tlb, pgd, addr, next, floor, ceiling);
>> + } else {
>> + if (pgd_none(*pgd))
>> + continue;
>> + free_hugepte_range(tlb, (hugepd_t *)pgd, psize);
>> + }
>> } while (pgd++, addr = next, addr != end);
>> }
>>