linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Correct alignment of huge page requests.

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Date:	Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:29:51 -0500
From:	Steven Truelove <steven.truelove@...ronto.ca>
To:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
CC:	wli@...omorphy.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Correct alignment of huge page requests.

On 03/03/2012 10:02 PM, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 09:58:41PM -0500, Steven Truelove wrote:
>> When calling shmget() with SHM_HUGETLB, shmget aligns the request size to PAGE_SIZE, but this is not sufficient.  Modified hugetlb_file_setup() to align requests to the huge page size, and to accept an address argument so that all alignment checks can be performed in hugetlb_file_setup(), rather than in its callers.  Changed newseg and mmap_pgoff to match new prototype and eliminated a now redundant alignment check.
> I think only rounding up request size in shmget() is not sufficient,
> because later shmat() also have alignment check and fails to mmap()
> to unaligned address.
> Maybe file->f_op->get_unmapped_area() (or hugetlb_get_unmapped_area())
> should have round up code, I think.
> Could you try it?

Because the allocation is done in shmget() and the the address is not 
provided until shmat(), I don't see a way to make this work reasonably.  
I would argue that only allowing aligned addresses, or allowing the 
kernel to choose the address, is a reasonable restriction on SHM_HUGETLB 
usage.

Regarding your other comments, I will submit a revised patch.

Thanks,

Steven Truelove


> And a few comments below,
>
>> Signed-off-by: Steven Truelove<steven.truelove@...ronto.ca>
>> ---
>>   fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c    |   12 ++++++++----
>>   include/linux/hugetlb.h |    3 ++-
>>   ipc/shm.c               |    2 +-
>>   mm/mmap.c               |    6 +++---
>>   4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
>> index 1e85a7a..a97b7cc 100644
>> --- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
>> +++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
>> @@ -928,7 +928,7 @@ static int can_do_hugetlb_shm(void)
>>   	return capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK) || in_group_p(sysctl_hugetlb_shm_group);
>>   }
>>
>> -struct file *hugetlb_file_setup(const char *name, size_t size,
>> +struct file *hugetlb_file_setup(const char *name, unsigned long addr, size_t size,
> Just a nitpick, this line is over 80 characters.
> checkpatch.pl should warn.
>
>>   				vm_flags_t acctflag,
>>   				struct user_struct **user, int creat_flags)
>>   {
>> @@ -938,6 +938,8 @@ struct file *hugetlb_file_setup(const char *name, size_t size,
>>   	struct path path;
>>   	struct dentry *root;
>>   	struct qstr quick_string;
>> +	struct hstate *hstate;
>> +	int num_pages;
> Is unsigned long better?
>
> Thanks,
> Naoya
>
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