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Message-ID: <20150507092000.GA18516@node.dhcp.inet.fi>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 12:20:00 +0300
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mpe@...erman.id.au, paulus@...ba.org,
benh@...nel.crashing.org, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com,
aarcange@...hat.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/2] mm/thp: Split out pmd collpase flush into a
seperate functions
On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 12:53:27PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> After this patch pmdp_* functions operate only on hugepage pte,
> and not on regular pmd_t values pointing to page table.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h | 4 ++
> arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c | 76 +++++++++++++++++---------------
> include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 19 ++++++++
> mm/huge_memory.c | 2 +-
> 4 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h
> index 43e6ad424c7f..50830c9a2116 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h
> @@ -576,6 +576,10 @@ static inline void pmdp_set_wrprotect(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> extern void pmdp_splitting_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmdp);
>
> +#define __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_COLLAPSE_FLUSH
> +extern pmd_t pmdp_collapse_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> + unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmdp);
> +
> #define __HAVE_ARCH_PGTABLE_DEPOSIT
> extern void pgtable_trans_huge_deposit(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmdp,
> pgtable_t pgtable);
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c
> index 59daa5eeec25..9171c1a37290 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c
> @@ -560,41 +560,47 @@ pmd_t pmdp_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
> pmd_t pmd;
>
> VM_BUG_ON(address & ~HPAGE_PMD_MASK);
> - if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmdp)) {
> - pmd = pmdp_get_and_clear(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp);
> - } else {
> - /*
> - * 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();
> - /*
> - * Now invalidate the hpte entries in the range
> - * covered by pmd. This make sure we take a
> - * fault and will find the pmd as none, which will
> - * result in a major fault which takes mmap_sem and
> - * hence wait for collapse to complete. Without this
> - * the __collapse_huge_page_copy can result in copying
> - * the old content.
> - */
> - flush_tlb_pmd_range(vma->vm_mm, &pmd, address);
> - }
> + VM_BUG_ON(!pmd_trans_huge(*pmdp));
> + pmd = pmdp_get_and_clear(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp);
> + return pmd;
The patches are in reverse order: you need to change pmdp_get_and_clear
first otherwise you break bisectability.
Or better merge patches together.
> +}
> +
> +pmd_t pmdp_collapse_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
> + pmd_t *pmdp)
> +{
> + pmd_t pmd;
> +
> + VM_BUG_ON(address & ~HPAGE_PMD_MASK);
> + VM_BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*pmdp));
> +
> + 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();
> + /*
> + * Now invalidate the hpte entries in the range
> + * covered by pmd. This make sure we take a
> + * fault and will find the pmd as none, which will
> + * result in a major fault which takes mmap_sem and
> + * hence wait for collapse to complete. Without this
> + * the __collapse_huge_page_copy can result in copying
> + * the old content.
> + */
> + flush_tlb_pmd_range(vma->vm_mm, &pmd, address);
> return pmd;
> }
>
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
> index 39f1d6a2b04d..80e6d415cd57 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
> @@ -189,6 +189,25 @@ extern void pmdp_splitting_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmdp);
> #endif
>
> +#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_COLLAPSE_FLUSH
> +#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> +static inline pmd_t pmdp_collapse_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> + unsigned long address,
> + pmd_t *pmdp)
> +{
> + return pmdp_clear_flush(vma, address, pmdp);
> +}
> +#else
> +static inline pmd_t pmdp_collapse_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> + unsigned long address,
> + pmd_t *pmdp)
> +{
> + BUILD_BUG();
> + return __pmd(0);
> +}
> +#endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
> +#endif
> +
> #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PGTABLE_DEPOSIT
> extern void pgtable_trans_huge_deposit(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmdp,
> pgtable_t pgtable);
> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> index 078832cf3636..88f695a4e38b 100644
> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -2499,7 +2499,7 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
> * huge and small TLB entries for the same virtual address
> * to avoid the risk of CPU bugs in that area.
> */
> - _pmd = pmdp_clear_flush(vma, address, pmd);
> + _pmd = pmdp_collapse_flush(vma, address, pmd);
Why? pmdp_clear_flush() does kick_all_cpus_sync() already.
> spin_unlock(pmd_ptl);
> mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);
>
> --
> 2.1.4
>
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