linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv6 33/36] migrate_pages: try to split pages on qeueuing

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Date:	Mon, 22 Jun 2015 14:35:25 +0300
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc:	"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>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...two.org>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	Steve Capper <steve.capper@...aro.org>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 33/36] migrate_pages: try to split pages on qeueuing

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:27:19AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 06/03/2015 07:06 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> >We are not able to migrate THPs. It means it's not enough to split only
> >PMD on migration -- we need to split compound page under it too.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
> >---
> >  mm/mempolicy.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> >  1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
> >index 528f6c467cf1..0b1499c2f890 100644
> >--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
> >+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
> >@@ -489,14 +489,31 @@ static int queue_pages_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
> >  	struct page *page;
> >  	struct queue_pages *qp = walk->private;
> >  	unsigned long flags = qp->flags;
> >-	int nid;
> >+	int nid, ret;
> >  	pte_t *pte;
> >  	spinlock_t *ptl;
> >
> >-	split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr);
> >-	if (pmd_trans_unstable(pmd))
> >-		return 0;
> >+	if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
> >+		ptl = pmd_lock(walk->mm, pmd);
> >+		if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
> >+			page = pmd_page(*pmd);
> >+			if (is_huge_zero_page(page)) {
> >+				spin_unlock(ptl);
> >+				split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr);
> >+			} else {
> >+				get_page(page);
> >+				spin_unlock(ptl);
> >+				lock_page(page);
> >+				ret = split_huge_page(page);
> >+				unlock_page(page);
> >+				put_page(page);
> >+				if (ret)
> >+					return 0;
> >+			}
> >+		}
> >+	}
> >
> >+retry:
> >  	pte = pte_offset_map_lock(walk->mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
> >  	for (; addr != end; pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
> >  		if (!pte_present(*pte))
> >@@ -513,6 +530,18 @@ static int queue_pages_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
> >  		nid = page_to_nid(page);
> >  		if (node_isset(nid, *qp->nmask) == !!(flags & MPOL_MF_INVERT))
> >  			continue;
> >+		if (PageTail(page) && PageAnon(page)) {
> 
> Hm, can it really happen that we stumble upon THP tail page here, without
> first stumbling upon it in the previous hunk above? If so, when?

The first hunk catch PMD-mapped THP and here we deal with PTE-mapped.
The scenario: fault in a THP, split PMD (not page) e.g. with mprotect()
and then try to migrate.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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