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Message-ID: <225cbb00-9759-3547-8073-3b08b458c73e@arm.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 10:33:58 +0100
From: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@...el.com>,
Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>, Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>,
"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] mm: Allow deferred splitting of arbitrary large
anon folios
On 18/07/2023 10:08, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 18.07.23 10:58, Ryan Roberts wrote:
>> On 17/07/2023 17:48, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> On 17.07.23 18:01, Ryan Roberts wrote:
>>>> On 17/07/2023 16:42, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>>> On 17.07.23 16:31, Ryan Roberts wrote:
>>>>>> In preparation for the introduction of large folios for anonymous
>>>>>> memory, we would like to be able to split them when they have unmapped
>>>>>> subpages, in order to free those unused pages under memory pressure. So
>>>>>> remove the artificial requirement that the large folio needed to be at
>>>>>> least PMD-sized.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>
>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@...el.com>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> mm/rmap.c | 2 +-
>>>>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
>>>>>> index 0c0d8857dfce..2baf57d65c23 100644
>>>>>> --- a/mm/rmap.c
>>>>>> +++ b/mm/rmap.c
>>>>>> @@ -1430,7 +1430,7 @@ void page_remove_rmap(struct page *page, struct
>>>>>> vm_area_struct *vma,
>>>>>> * page of the folio is unmapped and at least one page
>>>>>> * is still mapped.
>>>>>> */
>>>>>> - if (folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio) && folio_test_anon(folio))
>>>>>> + if (folio_test_large(folio) && folio_test_anon(folio))
>>>>>> if (!compound || nr < nr_pmdmapped)
>>>>>> deferred_split_folio(folio);
>>>>>
>>>>> !compound will always be true I guess, so nr_pmdmapped == 0 (which will always
>>>>> be the case) will be ignored.
>>>>
>>>> I don't follow why !compound will always be true. This function is
>>>> page_remove_rmap() (not folio_remove_rmap_range() which I add in a later
>>>> patch).
>>>> page_remove_rmap() can work on pmd-mapped pages where compound=true is
>>>> passed in.
>>>
>>> I was talking about the folio_test_pmd_mappable() -> folio_test_large() change.
>>> For folio_test_large() && !folio_test_pmd_mappable() I expect that we'll never
>>> pass in "compound=true".
>>>
>>
>> Sorry David, I've been staring at the code and your comment, and I still don't
>> understand your point. I assumed you were trying to say that compound is always
>> false and therefore "if (!compound || nr < nr_pmdmapped)" can be removed? But
>> its not the case that compound is always false; it will be true when called to
>> remove a pmd-mapped compound page.
>
> Let me try again:
>
> Assume, as I wrote, that we are given a folio that is "folio_test_large() &&
> !folio_test_pmd_mappable()". That is, a folio that is *not* pmd mappable.
>
> If it's not pmd-mappable, certainly, nr_pmdmapped == 0, and therefore, "nr <
> nr_pmdmapped" will never ever trigger.
>
> The only way to have it added to the deferred split queue is, therefore "if
> (!compound)".
>
> So *for these folios*, we will always pass "compound == false" to make that "if
> (!compound)" succeed.
>
>
> Does that make sense?
Yes I agree with all of this. I thought you were pointing out an issue or
proposing a change to the logic. Hence my confusion.
>
>> What change are you suggesting, exactly?
>
> Oh, I never suggested a change (I even gave you my RB). I was just thinking out
> loud.
>
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