linux-kernel - Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v5 00/21] Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb page

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Message-ID: <20201123074046.GB27488@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Mon, 23 Nov 2020 08:40:46 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
To:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
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Subject: Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v5 00/21] Free some vmemmap pages of
 hugetlb page

On Fri 20-11-20 23:44:26, Muchun Song wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 9:11 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri 20-11-20 20:40:46, Muchun Song wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 4:42 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Fri 20-11-20 14:43:04, Muchun Song wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for improving the cover letter and providing some numbers. I have
> > > > only glanced through the patchset because I didn't really have more time
> > > > to dive depply into them.
> > > >
> > > > Overall it looks promissing. To summarize. I would prefer to not have
> > > > the feature enablement controlled by compile time option and the kernel
> > > > command line option should be opt-in. I also do not like that freeing
> > > > the pool can trigger the oom killer or even shut the system down if no
> > > > oom victim is eligible.
> > >
> > > Hi Michal,
> > >
> > > I have replied to you about those questions on the other mail thread.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > One thing that I didn't really get to think hard about is what is the
> > > > effect of vmemmap manipulation wrt pfn walkers. pfn_to_page can be
> > > > invalid when racing with the split. How do we enforce that this won't
> > > > blow up?
> > >
> > > This feature depends on the CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP,
> > > in this case, the pfn_to_page can work. The return value of the
> > > pfn_to_page is actually the address of it's struct page struct.
> > > I can not figure out where the problem is. Can you describe the
> > > problem in detail please? Thanks.
> >
> > struct page returned by pfn_to_page might get invalid right when it is
> > returned because vmemmap could get freed up and the respective memory
> > released to the page allocator and reused for something else. See?
> 
> If the HugeTLB page is already allocated from the buddy allocator,
> the struct page of the HugeTLB can be freed? Does this exist?

Nope, struct pages only ever get deallocated when the respective memory
(they describe) is hotremoved via hotplug.

> If yes, how to free the HugeTLB page to the buddy allocator
> (cannot access the struct page)?

But I do not follow how that relates to my concern above.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs