linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V5 1/3] mm: Add get_user_pages_cma

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Date:   Thu, 20 Dec 2018 15:28:52 +1100
From:   Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>
To:     "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        mpe@...erman.id.au, paulus@...ba.org,
        David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 1/3] mm: Add get_user_pages_cma_migrate



On 19/12/2018 14:40, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> This helper does a get_user_pages_fast and if it find pages in the CMA area
> it will try to migrate them before taking page reference. This makes sure that
> we don't keep non-movable pages (due to page reference count) in the CMA area.
> Not able to move pages out of CMA area result in CMA allocation failures.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/hugetlb.h |   2 +
>  include/linux/migrate.h |   3 +
>  mm/hugetlb.c            |   4 +-
>  mm/migrate.c            | 139 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 146 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> index 087fd5f48c91..1eed0cdaec0e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> @@ -371,6 +371,8 @@ struct page *alloc_huge_page_nodemask(struct hstate *h, int preferred_nid,
>  				nodemask_t *nmask);
>  struct page *alloc_huge_page_vma(struct hstate *h, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  				unsigned long address);
> +struct page *alloc_migrate_huge_page(struct hstate *h, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> +				     int nid, nodemask_t *nmask);
>  int huge_add_to_page_cache(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
>  			pgoff_t idx);
>  
> diff --git a/include/linux/migrate.h b/include/linux/migrate.h
> index f2b4abbca55e..d82b35afd2eb 100644
> --- a/include/linux/migrate.h
> +++ b/include/linux/migrate.h
> @@ -286,6 +286,9 @@ static inline int migrate_vma(const struct migrate_vma_ops *ops,
>  }
>  #endif /* IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MIGRATE_VMA_HELPER) */
>  
> +extern int get_user_pages_cma_migrate(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
> +				      struct page **pages);


ah, sorry for commenting the same patch again but
./scripts/checkpatch.pl complains a log on this patch.


-- 
Alexey