linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 04/12] mm: thp: introduce CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_THP

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Date:   Tue, 29 Nov 2016 07:50:06 +0000
From:   Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
CC:     "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        "Pavel Emelyanov" <xemul@...allels.com>,
        Zi Yan <zi.yan@...rutgers.edu>,
        Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/12] mm: thp: introduce
 CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 03:21:54PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 08-11-16 08:31:49, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> > Introduces CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION to limit thp migration
> > functionality to x86_64, which should be safer at the first step.
> 
> Please make sure to describe why this has to be arch specific and what
> are arches supposed to provide in order to enable this option.

OK, the below will be added in the future version:

  Thp migration is an arch-specific feature because it depends on the
  arch-dependent behavior of non-present format of page table entry.
  What you need to enable this option in other archs are:
  - to define arch-specific transformation functions like __pmd_to_swp_entry()
    and __swp_entry_to_pmd(),
  - to make sure that arch-specific page table walking code can properly handle
    !pmd_present case (gup_pmd_range() is a good example),
  - (if your archs enables CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY,) to define soft dirty
    routines like pmd_swp_mksoft_dirty.

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi