linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: kill set_huge_swap_pte

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Date:   Mon, 27 Jun 2022 14:55:50 +0800
From:   Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@...edance.com>
To:     Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        mike.kravetz@...cle.com, songmuchun@...edance.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, catalin.marinas@....com, will@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: kill set_huge_swap_pte_at()



On 2022/6/27 14:18, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6/26/22 20:27, Qi Zheng wrote:
>> The commit e5251fd43007 ("mm/hugetlb: introduce set_huge_swap_pte_at()
>> helper") add set_huge_swap_pte_at() to handle swap entries on
>> architectures that support hugepages consisting of contiguous ptes.
>> And currently the set_huge_swap_pte_at() is only overridden by arm64.
>>
>> The set_huge_swap_pte_at() provide a sz parameter to help determine
>> the number of entries to be updated. But in fact, all hugetlb swap
>> entries contain pfn information, so we can find the corresponding
>> folio through the pfn recorded in the swap entry, then the folio_size()
>> is the number of entries that need to be updated.
>>
>> And considering that users will easily cause bugs by ignoring the
>> difference between set_huge_swap_pte_at() and set_huge_pte_at().
>> Let's handle swap entries in set_huge_pte_at() and remove the
>> set_huge_swap_pte_at(), then we can call set_huge_pte_at()
>> anywhere, which simplifies our coding.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@...edance.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/arm64/include/asm/hugetlb.h |  3 ---
>>   arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c      | 34 ++++++++++++++++----------------
>>   include/linux/hugetlb.h          | 13 ------------
>>   mm/hugetlb.c                     |  8 +++-----
>>   mm/rmap.c                        | 11 +++--------
>>   5 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/hugetlb.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/hugetlb.h
>> index 1fd2846dbefe..d20f5da2d76f 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/hugetlb.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/hugetlb.h
>> @@ -46,9 +46,6 @@ extern void huge_pte_clear(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
>>   			   pte_t *ptep, unsigned long sz);
>>   #define __HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_PTEP_GET
>>   extern pte_t huge_ptep_get(pte_t *ptep);
>> -extern void set_huge_swap_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
>> -				 pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte, unsigned long sz);
>> -#define set_huge_swap_pte_at set_huge_swap_pte_at
>>   
>>   void __init arm64_hugetlb_cma_reserve(void);
>>   
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
>> index c9e076683e5d..58b89b9d13e0 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
>> @@ -238,6 +238,13 @@ static void clear_flush(struct mm_struct *mm,
>>   	flush_tlb_range(&vma, saddr, addr);
>>   }
>>   
>> +static inline struct folio *hugetlb_swap_entry_to_folio(swp_entry_t entry)
>> +{
>> +	VM_BUG_ON(!is_migration_entry(entry) && !is_hwpoison_entry(entry));
>> +
>> +	return page_folio(pfn_to_page(swp_offset(entry)));
>> +}
> 
> Extracting this huge page size from swap entry is an additional operation which
> will increase the over all cost for set_huge_swap_pte_at(). At present the size

Hmm, I think this cost is very small. And replacing
set_huge_swap_pte_at() by transparently handling swap entries helps
reduce possible bugs, which is worthwhile.

> value is readily available near set_huge_swap_pte_at() call sites.

-- 
Thanks,
Qi