linux-kernel - [PATCHv10 28/36] mm, numa: skip PTE-mapped THP on numa fault

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Date:	Thu,  3 Sep 2015 18:13:14 +0300
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	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,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCHv10 28/36] mm, numa: skip PTE-mapped THP on numa fault

We're going to have THP mapped with PTEs. It will confuse numabalancing.
Let's skip them for now.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
---
 mm/memory.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index e42de24690af..5a9e9399d935 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3184,6 +3184,12 @@ static int do_numa_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+	/* TODO: handle PTE-mapped THP */
+	if (PageCompound(page)) {
+		pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Avoid grouping on RO pages in general. RO pages shouldn't hurt as
 	 * much anyway since they can be in shared cache state. This misses
-- 
2.5.0

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