linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm, fault_around: do not take a reference to a locked page

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Date:   Tue, 20 Nov 2018 15:33:07 +0100
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Oscar Salvador <OSalvador@...e.com>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm, fault_around: do not take a reference to a
 locked page

On 20.11.18 14:43, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> 
> filemap_map_pages takes a speculative reference to each page in the
> range before it tries to lock that page. While this is correct it
> also can influence page migration which will bail out when seeing
> an elevated reference count. The faultaround code would bail on
> seeing a locked page so we can pro-actively check the PageLocked
> bit before page_cache_get_speculative and prevent from pointless
> reference count churn.
> 
> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
> Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> ---
>  mm/filemap.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
> index 81adec8ee02c..c76d6a251770 100644
> --- a/mm/filemap.c
> +++ b/mm/filemap.c
> @@ -2553,6 +2553,9 @@ void filemap_map_pages(struct vm_fault *vmf,
>  			goto next;
>  
>  		head = compound_head(page);
> +
> +		if (PageLocked(head))
> +			goto next;
>  		if (!page_cache_get_speculative(head))
>  			goto next;
>  
> 

Right, no sense in referencing a page if we know we will drop the
reference right away.

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>

-- 

Thanks,

David / dhildenb