linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v4 8/8] hugetlb: use new vma

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Date:   Fri, 29 Jul 2022 09:41:54 +0800
From:   Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To:     Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
CC:     <linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@...ux.dev>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        Prakash Sangappa <prakash.sangappa@...cle.com>,
        James Houghton <jthoughton@...gle.com>,
        Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>,
        Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>,
        Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@...gle.com>,
        Ray Fucillo <Ray.Fucillo@...ersystems.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 8/8] hugetlb: use new vma_lock for pmd sharing
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On 2022/7/29 1:47, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> On 07/28/22 14:51, Miaohe Lin wrote:
snip
>>
>> Do we need to check &mm->mm_users == 0 here in case the address_space of corresponding process
>> has exited? In this case, mmdrop will drop the last reference and free the skipped_mm. So we will
>> use skipped_mm below after it's freed?
>>
> 
> Good point!
> I think we need to wait to drop since we want to hold the read lock.
> Will update.
> 
>>> +		vma = find_vma(skipped_mm, skipped_vm_start);
>>> +		if (!vma || vma->vm_file->f_mapping != mapping ||
>>
>> If skipped_vm_start is unmapped and remapped as a anon vma before we taking the mmap_read_lock,
>> vma->vm_file will be NULL?
>>
> 
> IIUC, vma->vm_file will always be set even for an anon vma.  The fault
> code depends on this.  See beginning of hugetlb_fault() where we
> unconditionally do:
> 
> mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping;

What if vma is non-hugetlb anon vma?

Thanks.