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Date:	Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:54:39 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 22/29] HMM: mm add helper to update page table when migrating memory v3.

Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com> writes:

> +
> +	/* Try to fail early on. */
> +	if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma)))
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +

What is this about ?

> +retry:
> +	lru_add_drain();
> +	tlb_gather_mmu(&tlb, mm, range.start, range.end);
> +	update_hiwater_rss(mm);
> +	mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start_excluding(mm, &range,
> +						      mmu_notifier_exclude);
> +	tlb_start_vma(&tlb, vma);
> +	for (addr = range.start, i = 0; addr < end && !ret;) {
> +		unsigned long cstart, next, npages = 0;
> +		spinlock_t *ptl;
> +		pgd_t *pgdp;
> +		pud_t *pudp;
> +		pmd_t *pmdp;
> +		pte_t *ptep;
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * Pretty much the exact same logic as __handle_mm_fault(),
> +		 * exception being the handling of huge pmd.
> +		 */
> +		pgdp = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
> +		pudp = pud_alloc(mm, pgdp, addr);
> +		if (!pudp) {
> +			ret = -ENOMEM;
> +			break;
> +		}
> +		pmdp = pmd_alloc(mm, pudp, addr);
> +		if (!pmdp) {
> +			ret = -ENOMEM;
> +			break;
> +		}
> +		if (unlikely(pte_alloc(mm, pmdp, addr))) {
> +			ret = -ENOMEM;
> +			break;
> +		}
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * If a huge pmd materialized under us just retry later.  Use
> +		 * pmd_trans_unstable() instead of pmd_trans_huge() to ensure the pmd
> +		 * didn't become pmd_trans_huge under us and then back to pmd_none, as
> +		 * a result of MADV_DONTNEED running immediately after a huge pmd fault
> +		 * in a different thread of this mm, in turn leading to a misleading
> +		 * pmd_trans_huge() retval.  All we have to ensure is that it is a
> +		 * regular pmd that we can walk with pte_offset_map() and we can do that
> +		 * through an atomic read in C, which is what pmd_trans_unstable()
> +		 * provides.
> +		 */
> +		if (unlikely(pmd_trans_unstable(pmdp) || pmd_devmap(*pmdp))) {
> +			ret = -EAGAIN;
> +			break;
> +		}
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * If an huge pmd materialized from under us split it and break
> +		 * out of the loop to retry.
> +		 */
> +		if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmdp) || pmd_devmap(*pmdp)) {
> +			split_huge_pmd(vma, addr, pmdp);
> +			ret = -EAGAIN;
> +			break;
> +		}
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * A regular pmd is established and it can't morph into a huge pmd
> +		 * from under us anymore at this point because we hold the mmap_sem
> +		 * read mode and khugepaged takes it in write mode. So now it's
> +		 * safe to run pte_offset_map().
> +		 */
> +		ptep = pte_offset_map(pmdp, addr);
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * A regular pmd is established and it can't morph into a huge
> +		 * pmd from under us anymore at this point because we hold the
> +		 * mmap_sem read mode and khugepaged takes it in write mode. So
> +		 * now it's safe to run pte_offset_map().
> +		 */
> +		ptep = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmdp, addr, &ptl);


Why pte_offset_map followed by map_lock ?

> +		for (i = (addr - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT, cstart = addr,
> +		     next = min((addr + PMD_SIZE) & PMD_MASK, end);
> +		     addr < next; addr += PAGE_SIZE, ptep++, i++) {
> +			save_pte[i] = ptep_get_and_clear(mm, addr, ptep);
> +			tlb_remove_tlb_entry(&tlb, ptep, addr);
> +			set_pte_at(mm, addr, ptep, hmm_entry);
> +
> +			if (pte_present(save_pte[i]))
> +				continue;
> +
> +			if (!pte_none(save_pte[i])) {
> +				set_pte_at(mm, addr, ptep, save_pte[i]);
> +				ret = -ENOENT;
> +				ptep++;
> +				break;
> +			}

What is special about pte_none ? Why break the loop ? I guess we are
checking for swap_pte ? why not is_swap_pte ? is that we already checked
pte_present ?

> +			/*
> +			 * TODO: This mm_forbids_zeropage() really does not
> +			 * apply to us. First it seems only S390 have it set,
> +			 * second we are not even using the zero page entry
> +			 * to populate the CPU page table, thought on error
> +			 * we might use the save_pte entry to set the CPU
> +			 * page table entry.
> +			 *
> +			 * Live with that oddity for now.
> +			 */
> +			if (mm_forbids_zeropage(mm)) {
> +				pte_clear(mm, addr, &save_pte[i]);
> +				npages++;
> +				continue;
> +			}
> +			save_pte[i] = pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(my_zero_pfn(addr),
> +						    vma->vm_page_prot));
> +		}
> +		pte_unmap_unlock(ptep - 1, ptl);
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * So we must allocate pages before checking for error, which
> +		 * here indicate that one entry is a swap entry. We need to
> +		 * allocate first because otherwise there is no easy way to
> +		 * know on retry or in error code path wether the CPU page
> +		 * table locked HMM entry is ours or from some other thread.
> +		 */
> +
> +		if (!npages)
> +			continue;
> +
> +		for (next = addr, addr = cstart,
> +		     i = (addr - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> +		     addr < next; addr += PAGE_SIZE, i++) {
> +			struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
> +			struct page *page;
> +
> +			if (pte_present(save_pte[i]) || !pte_none(save_pte[i]))
> +				continue;
> +
> +			page = alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable(vma, addr);
> +			if (!page) {
> +				ret = -ENOMEM;
> +				break;
> +			}
> +			__SetPageUptodate(page);
> +			if (mem_cgroup_try_charge(page, mm, GFP_KERNEL,
> +						  &memcg, false)) {
> +				page_cache_release(page);
> +				ret = -ENOMEM;
> +				break;
> +			}
> +			save_pte[i] = mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot);
> +			if (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE)
> +				save_pte[i] = pte_mkwrite(save_pte[i]);

I guess this also need to go ?

> +			inc_mm_counter_fast(mm, MM_ANONPAGES);
> +			/*
> +			 * Because we set the page table entry to the special
> +			 * HMM locked entry we know no other process might do
> +			 * anything with it and thus we can safely account the
> +			 * page without holding any lock at this point.
> +			 */
> +			page_add_new_anon_rmap(page, vma, addr, false);
> +			mem_cgroup_commit_charge(page, memcg, false, false);
> +			/*
> +			 * Add to active list so we know vmscan will not waste
> +			 * its time with that page while we are still using it.
> +			 */
> +			lru_cache_add_active_or_unevictable(page, vma);
> +		}
> +	}
> +	tlb_end_vma(&tlb, vma);
> +	mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end_excluding(mm, &range,
> +						    mmu_notifier_exclude);
> +	tlb_finish_mmu(&tlb, range.start, range.end);
> +
> +	if (backoff && *backoff) {
> +		/* Stick to the range we updated. */
> +		ret = -EAGAIN;
> +		end = addr;
> +		goto out;
> +	}
> +
> +	/* Check if something is missing or something went wrong. */
> +	if (ret == -ENOENT) {
> +		int flags = FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
> +
> +		do {
> +			/*
> +			 * Using __handle_mm_fault() as current->mm != mm ie we
> +			 * might have been call from a kernel thread on behalf
> +			 * of a driver and all accounting handle_mm_fault() is
> +			 * pointless in our case.
> +			 */
> +			ret = __handle_mm_fault(mm, vma, addr, flags);
> +			flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
> +		} while ((ret & VM_FAULT_RETRY));
> +		if ((ret & VM_FAULT_ERROR)) {
> +			/* Stick to the range we updated. */
> +			end = addr;
> +			ret = -EFAULT;
> +			goto out;
> +		}
> +		range.start = addr;
> +		goto retry;
> +	}
> +	if (ret == -EAGAIN) {
> +		range.start = addr;
> +		goto retry;
> +	}
> +	if (ret)
> +		/* Stick to the range we updated. */
> +		end = addr;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * At this point no one else can take a reference on the page from this
> +	 * process CPU page table. So we can safely check wether we can migrate
> +	 * or not the page.
> +	 */
> +
> +out:
> +	for (addr = start, i = 0; addr < end;) {
> +		unsigned long next;
> +		spinlock_t *ptl;
> +		pgd_t *pgdp;
> +		pud_t *pudp;
> +		pmd_t *pmdp;
> +		pte_t *ptep;
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * We know for certain that we did set special swap entry for
> +		 * the range and HMM entry are mark as locked so it means that
> +		 * no one beside us can modify them which apply that all level
> +		 * of the CPU page table are valid.
> +		 */
> +		pgdp = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
> +		pudp = pud_offset(pgdp, addr);
> +		VM_BUG_ON(!pudp);
> +		pmdp = pmd_offset(pudp, addr);
> +		VM_BUG_ON(!pmdp || pmd_bad(*pmdp) || pmd_none(*pmdp) ||
> +			  pmd_trans_huge(*pmdp));
> +
> +		ptep = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmdp, addr, &ptl);
> +		for (next = min((addr + PMD_SIZE) & PMD_MASK, end),
> +		     i = (addr - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT; addr < next;
> +		     addr += PAGE_SIZE, ptep++, i++) {
> +			struct page *page;
> +			swp_entry_t entry;
> +			int swapped;
> +
> +			entry = pte_to_swp_entry(save_pte[i]);
> +			if (is_hmm_entry(entry)) {
> +				/*
> +				 * Logic here is pretty involve. If save_pte is
> +				 * an HMM special swap entry then it means that
> +				 * we failed to swap in that page so error must
> +				 * be set.
> +				 *
> +				 * If that's not the case than it means we are
> +				 * seriously screw.
> +				 */
> +				VM_BUG_ON(!ret);
> +				continue;
> +			}
> +
> +			/*
> +			 * This can not happen, no one else can replace our
> +			 * special entry and as range end is re-ajusted on
> +			 * error.
> +			 */
> +			entry = pte_to_swp_entry(*ptep);
> +			VM_BUG_ON(!is_hmm_entry_locked(entry));
> +
> +			/* On error or backoff restore all the saved pte. */
> +			if (ret)
> +				goto restore;
> +
> +			page = vm_normal_page(vma, addr, save_pte[i]);
> +			/* The zero page is fine to migrate. */
> +			if (!page)
> +				continue;
> +
> +			/*
> +			 * Check that only CPU mapping hold a reference on the
> +			 * page. To make thing simpler we just refuse bail out
> +			 * if page_mapcount() != page_count() (also accounting
> +			 * for swap cache).
> +			 *
> +			 * There is a small window here where wp_page_copy()
> +			 * might have decremented mapcount but have not yet
> +			 * decremented the page count. This is not an issue as
> +			 * we backoff in that case.
> +			 */
> +			swapped = PageSwapCache(page);
> +			if (page_mapcount(page) + swapped == page_count(page))
> +				continue;
> +
> +restore:
> +			/* Ok we have to restore that page. */
> +			set_pte_at(mm, addr, ptep, save_pte[i]);
> +			/*
> +			 * No need to invalidate - it was non-present
> +			 * before.
> +			 */
> +			update_mmu_cache(vma, addr, ptep);
> +			pte_clear(mm, addr, &save_pte[i]);
> +		}
> +		pte_unmap_unlock(ptep - 1, ptl);
> +	}
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(mm_hmm_migrate);

-aneesh

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