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Date:	Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:50:25 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
	rientjes@...gle.com, riel@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org,
	pbonzini@...hat.com, mingo@...nel.org, mgorman@...e.de,
	kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com,
	hannes@...xchg.org, gerald.schaefer@...ibm.com,
	ebiederm@...ssion.com, aarcange@...hat.com, athorlton@....com
Subject: Re: +
	mm-revert-thp-make-madv_hugepage-check-for-mm-def_flags.patch added
	to -mm tree

On 02/26, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>
> On 26/02/14 00:53, akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
> > Subject: + mm-revert-thp-make-madv_hugepage-check-for-mm-def_flags.patch added to -mm tree
> > To: athorlton@....com,aarcange@...hat.com,borntraeger@...ibm.com,ebiederm@...ssion.com,gerald.schaefer@...ibm.com,hannes@...xchg.org,heiko.carstens@...ibm.com,kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com,mgorman@...e.de,mingo@...nel.org,oleg@...hat.com,pbonzini@...hat.com,peterz@...radead.org,riel@...hat.com,rientjes@...gle.com,schwidefsky@...ibm.com,viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
> > From: akpm@...ux-foundation.org
> > Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:53:13 -0800
> >
> >
> > The patch titled
> >      Subject: mm: revert "thp: make MADV_HUGEPAGE check for mm->def_flags"
> > has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
> >      mm-revert-thp-make-madv_hugepage-check-for-mm-def_flags.patch
> >
> > This patch should soon appear at
> >     http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-revert-thp-make-madv_hugepage-check-for-mm-def_flags.patch
> > and later at
> >     http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-revert-thp-make-madv_hugepage-check-for-mm-def_flags.patch
>
>
> NAK.
>
> Since 2012 qemu does call "qemu_madvise(new_block->host, size, QEMU_MADV_HUGEPAGE);" for all kvm pages.
> (commit ad0b5321f1f797274603ebbe20108b0750baee94 Call MADV_HUGEPAGE for guest RAM allocations) so this
> breaks any recent kvm guest on s390.

Well, I can't really discuss the changes in arch/s390.

But perhaps qemu can be changed to avoid MADV_HUGEPAGE on s390 ?
Otherwise I'd suggest the change below.

Oleg.


--- x/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ x/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1968,8 +1968,6 @@ out:
 int hugepage_madvise(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		     unsigned long *vm_flags, int advice)
 {
-	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
-
 	switch (advice) {
 	case MADV_HUGEPAGE:
 		/*
@@ -1977,8 +1975,16 @@ int hugepage_madvise(struct vm_area_stru
 		 */
 		if (*vm_flags & (VM_HUGEPAGE | VM_NO_THP))
 			return -EINVAL;
-		if (mm->def_flags & VM_NOHUGEPAGE)
+
+/*
+ * MADV_HUGEPAGE after PRCTL_THP_DISABLE is broken on s390 because
+ * qemu blindly does madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) after s390_enable_sie().
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_S390
+		if (vma->vm_mm->def_flags & VM_NOHUGEPAGE)
 			return -EINVAL;
+#endif
+
 		*vm_flags &= ~VM_NOHUGEPAGE;
 		*vm_flags |= VM_HUGEPAGE;
 		/*

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