linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: enforce THP for VM

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Date:   Fri, 28 Sep 2018 15:43:04 -0700
From:   Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: enforce THP for VM_NOHUGEPAGE dax mappings



On 9/28/18 3:36 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 3:34 PM <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>> commit baabda261424517110ea98c6651f632ebf2561e3 ("mm: always enable thp
>> for dax mappings") says madvise hguepage policy makes less sense for
>> dax, and force enabling thp for dax mappings in all cases, even though
>> THP is set to "never".
>>
>> However, transparent_hugepage_enabled() may return false if
>> VM_NOHUGEPAGE is set even though the mapping is dax.
>>
>> So, move is_vma_dax() check to the very beginning to enforce THP for dax
>> mappings in all cases.
>>
>> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
>> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
>> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
>> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
>> ---
>> I didn't find anyone mention the check should be before VM_NOHUGEPAGE in
>> the review for Dan's original patch. And, that patch commit log states
>> clearly that THP for dax mapping for all cases even though THP is never.
>> So, I'm supposed it should behave in this way.
> No, if someone explicitly does MADV_NOHUGEPAGE then the kernel should
> honor that, even if the mapping is DAX.

Thanks for confirming this. Actually, I had the same question before I 
came up with this patch. "all cases" sounds a little bit misleading.