linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: thp: register mm for khugepaged when merging vma for shmem

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:49:58 -0700
From:   Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Cc:     hughd@...gle.com, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, vbabka@...e.cz,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: thp: register mm for khugepaged when merging vma for
 shmem



On 6/21/18 3:24 PM, Yang Shi wrote:
>
>
> On 6/21/18 3:10 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 05:40:47AM +0800, Yang Shi wrote:
>>> When merging anonymous page vma, if the size of vam can fit in at least
>> s/vam/vma/
>>
>>> one hugepage, the mm will be registered for khugepaged for collapsing
>>> THP in the future.
>>>
>>> But, it skips shmem vma. Doing so for shmem too when merging vma in
>>> order to increase the odd to collapse hugepage by khugepaged.
>> Good catch. Thanks.
>>
>> I think the fix incomplete. We shouldn't require vma->anon_vma for 
>> shmem,
>> only for anonymous mappings. We don't support file-private THPs.
>
> So you mean, shmem_file(vma->vm_file) && PageAnon(page)?

I got your point. Please disregard the question.

>
>>
>>> Also increase the count of shmem THP collapse. It looks missed before.
>> Separate patch, please.
>
> Sure.
>
> Thanks,
> Yang
>
>>
>