linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] mm/vmscan: Attempt to migrate page in lieu of discard

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 18 Oct 2019 11:15:07 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] mm/vmscan: Attempt to migrate page in lieu of discard

On 10/17/19 10:30 AM, Yang Shi wrote:
>> +               if (!PageHuge(page)) {
>> +                       int rc = migrate_demote_mapping(page);
>> +
>> +                       /*
>> +                        * -ENOMEM on a THP may indicate either migration is
>> +                        * unsupported or there was not enough contiguous
>> +                        * space. Split the THP into base pages and retry the
>> +                        * head immediately. The tail pages will be considered
>> +                        * individually within the current loop's page list.
>> +                        */
>> +                       if (rc == -ENOMEM && PageTransHuge(page) &&
>> +                           !split_huge_page_to_list(page, page_list))
>> +                               rc = migrate_demote_mapping(page);
> I recalled when Keith posted the patch at the first time, I raised
> question about why not just migrating THP in a whole? The
> migrate_pages() could handle this. If it fails, it just fallbacks to
> base page.

There's a pair of migrate_demote_mapping()s in there.  I expected that
the first will migrate the whole THP and the second plus the split is
only used if fails the whole migration.

Am I reading it wrong?