linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] mm/THP: use hugepage_vma_check() in khugepaged_enter_vma

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Date:   Mon, 28 May 2018 13:57:24 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:     Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, kernel-team@...com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mhocko@...nel.org,
        rientjes@...gle.com, aarcange@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm/THP: use hugepage_vma_check() in
 khugepaged_enter_vma_merge()

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 12:44:30PM -0700, Song Liu wrote:
> khugepaged_enter_vma_merge() is using a different approach to check
> whether a vma is valid for khugepaged_enter():
> 
>     if (!vma->anon_vma)
>             /*
>              * Not yet faulted in so we will register later in the
>              * page fault if needed.
>              */
>             return 0;
>     if (vma->vm_ops || (vm_flags & VM_NO_KHUGEPAGED))
>             /* khugepaged not yet working on file or special mappings */
>             return 0;
> 
> This check has some problems. One of the obvious problems is that
> it doesn't check shmem_file(), so that vma backed with shmem files
> will not call khugepaged_enter(). Here is an example of failed madvise():
> 
>    /* mount /dev/shm with huge=advise:
>     *     mount -o remount,huge=advise /dev/shm */
>    /* create file /dev/shm/huge */
>    #define HUGE_FILE "/dev/shm/huge"
> 
>    fd = open(HUGE_FILE, O_RDONLY);
>    ptr = mmap(NULL, FILE_SIZE, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
>    ret = madvise(ptr, FILE_SIZE, MADV_HUGEPAGE);
> 
> madvise() will return 0, but this memory region is never put in huge
> page (check from /proc/meminfo: ShmemHugePages).
> 
> This patch fixes these problems by reusing hugepage_vma_check() in
> khugepaged_enter_vma_merge().
> 
> vma->vm_flags is not yet updated in khugepaged_enter_vma_merge(),
> so we need to pass the new vm_flags to hugepage_vma_check() through
> a separate argument.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>
> ---
>  mm/khugepaged.c | 26 ++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
> index d7b2a4b..9f74e51 100644
> --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
> +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
> @@ -430,18 +430,15 @@ int __khugepaged_enter(struct mm_struct *mm)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static bool hugepage_vma_check(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> +			       unsigned long vm_flags);
> +

The patch looks good to me.

But can we move hugepage_vma_check() here to avoid forward declaration of
the function?

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov