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Message-ID: <20181108103517.7uy3rktr4gyrsh6q@capper-debian.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:   Thu, 8 Nov 2018 10:35:28 +0000
From:   Steve Capper <Steve.Capper@....com>
To:     Anshuman Khandual <Anshuman.Khandual@....com>
CC:     "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Suzuki Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@....com>,
        Punit Agrawal <Punit.Agrawal@....com>,
        Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
        Steven Price <Steven.Price@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>,
        "mhocko@...nel.org" <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "mike.kravetz@...cle.com" <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        "n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com" <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
        nd <nd@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 3/5] mm/hugetlb: Enable arch specific huge page size
 support for migration

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 06:31:59PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Architectures like arm64 have HugeTLB page sizes which are different than
> generic sizes at PMD, PUD, PGD level and implemented via contiguous bits.
> At present these special size HugeTLB pages cannot be identified through
> macros like (PMD|PUD|PGDIR)_SHIFT and hence chosen not be migrated.
> 
> Enabling migration support for these special HugeTLB page sizes along with
> the generic ones (PMD|PUD|PGD) would require identifying all of them on a
> given platform. A platform specific hook can precisely enumerate all huge
> page sizes supported for migration. Instead of comparing against standard
> huge page orders let hugetlb_migration_support() function call a platform
> hook arch_hugetlb_migration_support(). Default definition for the platform
> hook maintains existing semantics which checks standard huge page order.
> But an architecture can choose to override the default and provide support
> for a comprehensive set of huge page sizes.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>

Reviewed-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@....com>

> ---
>  include/linux/hugetlb.h | 15 +++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> index 70bcd89..4cc3871 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> @@ -493,18 +493,29 @@ static inline pgoff_t basepage_index(struct page *page)
>  extern int dissolve_free_huge_page(struct page *page);
>  extern int dissolve_free_huge_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
>  				    unsigned long end_pfn);
> -static inline bool hugepage_migration_supported(struct hstate *h)
> -{
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION
> +#ifndef arch_hugetlb_migration_supported
> +static inline bool arch_hugetlb_migration_supported(struct hstate *h)
> +{
>  	if ((huge_page_shift(h) == PMD_SHIFT) ||
>  		(huge_page_shift(h) == PUD_SHIFT) ||
>  			(huge_page_shift(h) == PGDIR_SHIFT))
>  		return true;
>  	else
>  		return false;
> +}
> +#endif
>  #else
> +static inline bool arch_hugetlb_migration_supported(struct hstate *h)
> +{
>  	return false;
> +}
>  #endif
> +
> +static inline bool hugepage_migration_supported(struct hstate *h)
> +{
> +	return arch_hugetlb_migration_supported(h);
>  }
>  
>  /*
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 

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