linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/7] khugepaged: Allow to callapse a page shared across fork

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Date:   Fri, 27 Mar 2020 20:05:58 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/7] khugepaged: Allow to callapse a page shared across fork

The page can be included into collapse as long as it doesn't have extra
pins (from GUP or otherwise).

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
---
 mm/khugepaged.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 39e0994abeb8..b47edfe57f7b 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -581,18 +581,26 @@ static int __collapse_huge_page_isolate(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		}
 
 		/*
-		 * cannot use mapcount: can't collapse if there's a gup pin.
-		 * The page must only be referenced by the scanned process
-		 * and page swap cache.
+		 * Check if the page has any GUP (or other external) pins.
+		 *
+		 * The page table that maps the page has been already unlinked
+		 * from the page table tree and this process cannot get
+		 * additinal pin on the page.
+		 *
+		 * New pins can come later if the page is shared across fork,
+		 * but not for the this process. It is fine. The other process
+		 * cannot write to the page, only trigger CoW.
 		 */
-		if (page_count(page) != 1 + PageSwapCache(page)) {
+		if (total_mapcount(page) + PageSwapCache(page) !=
+				page_count(page)) {
 			/*
 			 * Drain pagevec and retry just in case we can get rid
 			 * of the extra pin, like in swapin case.
 			 */
 			lru_add_drain();
 		}
-		if (page_count(page) != 1 + PageSwapCache(page)) {
+		if (total_mapcount(page) + PageSwapCache(page) !=
+				page_count(page)) {
 			unlock_page(page);
 			result = SCAN_PAGE_COUNT;
 			goto out;
@@ -680,7 +688,6 @@ static void __collapse_huge_page_copy(pte_t *pte, struct page *page,
 		} else {
 			src_page = pte_page(pteval);
 			copy_user_highpage(page, src_page, address, vma);
-			VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_mapcount(src_page) != 1, src_page);
 			release_pte_page(src_page);
 			/*
 			 * ptl mostly unnecessary, but preempt has to
@@ -1209,12 +1216,9 @@ static int khugepaged_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
 			goto out_unmap;
 		}
 
-		/*
-		 * cannot use mapcount: can't collapse if there's a gup pin.
-		 * The page must only be referenced by the scanned process
-		 * and page swap cache.
-		 */
-		if (page_count(page) != 1 + PageSwapCache(page)) {
+		/* Check if the page has any GUP (or other external) pins */
+		if (total_mapcount(page) + PageSwapCache(page) !=
+				page_count(page)) {
 			result = SCAN_PAGE_COUNT;
 			goto out_unmap;
 		}
-- 
2.26.0