Re: [PATCH v1 05/11] mm: thp: check pmd migration entry in common path

Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-03-03T10:51:06Z

On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 04:41:52PM +0900, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> If one of callers of page migration starts to handle thp, memory management code
> start to see pmd migration entry, so we need to prepare for it before enabling.
> This patch changes various code point which checks the status of given pmds in
> order to prevent race between thp migration and the pmd-related works.
>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/mm/gup.c | 3 +++
> fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 25 +++++++++++++--------
> mm/gup.c | 8 +++++++
> mm/huge_memory.c | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> mm/memcontrol.c | 2 ++
> mm/memory.c | 5 +++++
> 6 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git v4.5-rc5-mmotm-2016-02-24-16-18/arch/x86/mm/gup.c v4.5-rc5-mmotm-2016-02-24-16-18_patched/arch/x86/mm/gup.c
> index f8d0b5e..34c3d43 100644
> --- v4.5-rc5-mmotm-2016-02-24-16-18/arch/x86/mm/gup.c
> +++ v4.5-rc5-mmotm-2016-02-24-16-18_patched/arch/x86/mm/gup.c
> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
> #include <linux/highmem.h>
> #include <linux/swap.h>
> #include <linux/memremap.h>
> +#include <linux/swapops.h>
>
> #include <asm/pgtable.h>
>
> @@ -210,6 +211,8 @@ static int gup_pmd_range(pud_t pud, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
> if (pmd_none(pmd))
> return 0;
> if (unlikely(pmd_large(pmd) || !pmd_present(pmd))) {
> + if (unlikely(is_pmd_migration_entry(pmd)))
> + return 0;

Hm. I've expected to see bunch of pmd_none() to pmd_present() conversions.
That's seems a right way guard the code. Otherwise we wound need even more
checks once PMD-level swap is implemented.

I think we need to check for migration entires only if we have something
to do with migration. In all other cases pmd_present() should be enough to
bail out.

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Kirill A. Shutemov