linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 1/2] mm: Update generic gup implementation to handle hugepage directory

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Date:	Mon, 27 Oct 2014 19:41:15 +0100
From:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	steve.capper@...aro.org, mpe@...erman.id.au, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, hannes@...xchg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/2] mm: Update generic gup implementation to handle
 hugepage directory

Hi Aneesh,

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:28:41PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> 	VM_BUG_ON(address & ~HPAGE_PMD_MASK);
> 	if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmdp)) {
> 		pmd = pmdp_get_and_clear(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp);
> 	} else {

The only problematic path that needs IPI is the below one yes.

> 		/*
> 		 * khugepaged calls this for normal pmd
> 		 */
> 		pmd = *pmdp;
> 		pmd_clear(pmdp);
> 		/*
> 		 * Wait for all pending hash_page to finish. This is needed
> 		 * in case of subpage collapse. When we collapse normal pages
> 		 * to hugepage, we first clear the pmd, then invalidate all
> 		 * the PTE entries. The assumption here is that any low level
> 		 * page fault will see a none pmd and take the slow path that
> 		 * will wait on mmap_sem. But we could very well be in a
> 		 * hash_page with local ptep pointer value. Such a hash page
> 		 * can result in adding new HPTE entries for normal subpages.
> 		 * That means we could be modifying the page content as we
> 		 * copy them to a huge page. So wait for parallel hash_page
> 		 * to finish before invalidating HPTE entries. We can do this
> 		 * by sending an IPI to all the cpus and executing a dummy
> 		 * function there.
> 		 */
> 		kick_all_cpus_sync();
>
> We already do an IPI for ppc64.

Agreed, ppc64 is already covered.

sparc/arm seem to be using the generic pmdp_clear_flush implementation
instead, which just calls flush_tlb_range, so perhaps they aren't.

As above, the IPIs are only needed if the *pmd is not transhuge.

Thanks,
Andrea
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