linux-kernel - Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v3 05/21] mm/hugetlb: Introduce pgtable allocation/freeing helpers

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Date:   Tue, 10 Nov 2020 06:42:50 +0100
From:   Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
To:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, mingo@...hat.com,
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Subject: Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v3 05/21] mm/hugetlb: Introduce pgtable
 allocation/freeing helpers

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:49:27AM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 1:21 AM Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 10:10:57PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> > > +static inline unsigned int pgtable_pages_to_prealloc_per_hpage(struct hstate *h)
> > > +{
> > > +     unsigned long vmemmap_size = vmemmap_pages_size_per_hpage(h);
> > > +
> > > +     /*
> > > +      * No need pre-allocate page tabels when there is no vmemmap pages
> > > +      * to free.
> >  s /tabels/tables/
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> >
> > > +static int vmemmap_pgtable_prealloc(struct hstate *h, struct page *page)
> > > +{
> > > +     int i;
> > > +     pgtable_t pgtable;
> > > +     unsigned int nr = pgtable_pages_to_prealloc_per_hpage(h);
> > > +
> > > +     if (!nr)
> > > +             return 0;
> > > +
> > > +     vmemmap_pgtable_init(page);
> > > +
> > > +     for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
> > > +             pte_t *pte_p;
> > > +
> > > +             pte_p = pte_alloc_one_kernel(&init_mm);
> > > +             if (!pte_p)
> > > +                     goto out;
> > > +             vmemmap_pgtable_deposit(page, virt_to_page(pte_p));
> > > +     }
> > > +
> > > +     return 0;
> > > +out:
> > > +     while (i-- && (pgtable = vmemmap_pgtable_withdraw(page)))
> > > +             pte_free_kernel(&init_mm, page_to_virt(pgtable));
> >
> >         would not be enough to:
> >
> >         while (pgtable = vmemmap_pgtable_withdrag(page))
> >                 pte_free_kernel(&init_mm, page_to_virt(pgtable));
> 
> The vmemmap_pgtable_withdraw can not return NULL. So we can not
> drop the "i--".

Yeah, you are right, I managed to confuse myself.
But why not make it return null, something like:

static pgtable_t vmemmap_pgtable_withdraw(struct page *page)
{
	pgtable_t pgtable;

	/* FIFO */
	pgtable = page_huge_pte(page);
	page_huge_pte(page) = list_first_entry_or_null(&pgtable->lru,
						       struct page, lru);
	if (page_huge_pte(page))
		list_del(&pgtable->lru);

	return page_huge_pte(page) ? pgtable : NULL;
}

What do you think?


-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3