linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 14/20] mm, hugetlb: call vma_needs_reservation before entering alloc_huge

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Date:	Mon, 26 Aug 2013 19:06:45 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@...com>,
	David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 14/20] mm, hugetlb: call vma_needs_reservation before entering alloc_huge_page()

Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com> writes:

> In order to validate that this failure is reasonable, we need to know
> whether allocation request is for reserved or not on caller function.
> So moving vma_needs_reservation() up to the caller of alloc_huge_page().
> There is no functional change in this patch and following patch use
> this information.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
>
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 8dff972..bc666cf 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -1110,13 +1110,11 @@ static void vma_commit_reservation(struct hstate *h,
>  }
>
>  static struct page *alloc_huge_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> -				    unsigned long addr, int avoid_reserve)
> +				    unsigned long addr, int use_reserve)
>  {
>  	struct hugepage_subpool *spool = subpool_vma(vma);
>  	struct hstate *h = hstate_vma(vma);
>  	struct page *page;
> -	long chg;
> -	bool use_reserve;
>  	int ret, idx;
>  	struct hugetlb_cgroup *h_cg;
>
> @@ -1129,10 +1127,6 @@ static struct page *alloc_huge_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  	 * need pages and subpool limit allocated allocated if no reserve
>  	 * mapping overlaps.
>  	 */
> -	chg = vma_needs_reservation(h, vma, addr);
> -	if (chg < 0)
> -		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> -	use_reserve = (!chg && !avoid_reserve);
>  	if (!use_reserve)
>  		if (hugepage_subpool_get_pages(spool, 1))
>  			return ERR_PTR(-ENOSPC);
> @@ -2504,6 +2498,8 @@ static int hugetlb_cow(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  	struct hstate *h = hstate_vma(vma);
>  	struct page *old_page, *new_page;
>  	int outside_reserve = 0;
> +	long chg;
> +	bool use_reserve;
>  	unsigned long mmun_start;	/* For mmu_notifiers */
>  	unsigned long mmun_end;		/* For mmu_notifiers */
>
> @@ -2535,7 +2531,17 @@ retry_avoidcopy:
>
>  	/* Drop page_table_lock as buddy allocator may be called */
>  	spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> -	new_page = alloc_huge_page(vma, address, outside_reserve);
> +	chg = vma_needs_reservation(h, vma, address);
> +	if (chg == -ENOMEM) {

why not 

    if (chg < 0) ?

Should we try to unmap the page from child and avoid cow here ?. May be
with outside_reserve = 1 we will never have vma_needs_reservation fail.
Any how it would be nice to document why this error case is different
from alloc_huge_page error case.


> +		page_cache_release(old_page);
> +
> +		/* Caller expects lock to be held */
> +		spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> +		return VM_FAULT_OOM;
> +	}
> +	use_reserve = !chg && !outside_reserve;
> +
> +	new_page = alloc_huge_page(vma, address, use_reserve);
>
>  	if (IS_ERR(new_page)) {
>  		long err = PTR_ERR(new_page);
> @@ -2664,6 +2670,8 @@ static int hugetlb_no_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  	struct page *page;
>  	struct address_space *mapping;
>  	pte_t new_pte;
> +	long chg;
> +	bool use_reserve;
>
>  	/*
>  	 * Currently, we are forced to kill the process in the event the
> @@ -2689,7 +2697,15 @@ retry:
>  		size = i_size_read(mapping->host) >> huge_page_shift(h);
>  		if (idx >= size)
>  			goto out;
> -		page = alloc_huge_page(vma, address, 0);
> +
> +		chg = vma_needs_reservation(h, vma, address);
> +		if (chg == -ENOMEM) {

if (chg < 0)

> +			ret = VM_FAULT_OOM;
> +			goto out;
> +		}
> +		use_reserve = !chg;
> +
> +		page = alloc_huge_page(vma, address, use_reserve);
>  		if (IS_ERR(page)) {
>  			ret = PTR_ERR(page);
>  			if (ret == -ENOMEM)
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5

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