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Date:	Tue, 3 Mar 2015 15:35:24 +0200
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...two.org>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	Steve Capper <steve.capper@...aro.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 03/24] mm: avoid PG_locked on tail pages

On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 06:51:11PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com> writes:
> 
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > On 02/12/2015 02:55 PM, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >> On 02/12/2015 11:18 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> >
> >>> @@ -490,6 +493,7 @@ extern int 
> >>> wait_on_page_bit_killable_timeout(struct page *page,
> >> 
> >>> static inline int wait_on_page_locked_killable(struct page *page)
> >>>  { +	page = compound_head(page); if (PageLocked(page)) return 
> >>> wait_on_page_bit_killable(page, PG_locked); return 0; @@ -510,6 
> >>> +514,7 @@ static inline void wake_up_page(struct page *page, int 
> >>> bit) */ static inline void wait_on_page_locked(struct page *page)
> >>>  { +	page = compound_head(page); if (PageLocked(page)) 
> >>> wait_on_page_bit(page, PG_locked); }
> >> 
> >> These are all atomic operations.
> >> 
> >> This may be a stupid question with the answer lurking somewhere in
> >> the other patches, but how do you ensure you operate on the right
> >> page lock during a THP collapse or split?
> >
> > Kirill answered that question on IRC.
> >
> > The VM takes a refcount on a page before attempting to take a page
> > lock, which prevents the THP code from doing anything with the
> > page. In other words, while we have a refcount on the page, we
> > will dereference the same page lock.
> 
> Can we explain this more ? Don't we allow a thp split to happen even if
> we have page refcount ?.

The patchset changes this. Have you read the cover letter?

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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