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Message-ID: <c55d7ef7-78aa-4ed6-b897-c3e03a3f3ab7@linux.alibaba.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 16:56:37 +0800
From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
To: Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, hughd@...gle.com, willy@...radead.org,
 david@...hat.com, ryan.roberts@....com, ziy@...dia.com, gshan@...hat.com,
 ioworker0@...il.com, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: shmem: avoid allocating huge pages larger than
 MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER for shmem



On 2024/7/31 14:18, Barry Song wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 1:46 PM Baolin Wang
> <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>>
>> Similar to commit d659b715e94ac ("mm/huge_memory: avoid PMD-size page cache
>> if needed"), ARM64 can support 512MB PMD-sized THP when the base page size is
>> 64KB, which is larger than the maximum supported page cache size MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER.
>> This is not expected. To fix this issue, use THP_ORDERS_ALL_FILE_DEFAULT for
>> shmem to filter allowable huge orders.
>>
>> Fixes: e7a2ab7b3bb5 ("mm: shmem: add mTHP support for anonymous shmem")
>> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@...nel.org>

Thanks for reviewing.

> 
>> ---
>>   mm/shmem.c | 4 ++--
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
>> index 2faa9daaf54b..a4332a97558c 100644
>> --- a/mm/shmem.c
>> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
>> @@ -1630,10 +1630,10 @@ unsigned long shmem_allowable_huge_orders(struct inode *inode,
>>          unsigned long within_size_orders = READ_ONCE(huge_shmem_orders_within_size);
>>          unsigned long vm_flags = vma->vm_flags;
>>          /*
>> -        * Check all the (large) orders below HPAGE_PMD_ORDER + 1 that
>> +        * Check all the (large) orders below MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER + 1 that
>>           * are enabled for this vma.
> 
> Nit:
> THP_ORDERS_ALL_FILE_DEFAULT should be self-explanatory enough.
> I feel we don't need this comment?

Sure.

Andrew, please help to squash the following changes into this patch. Thanks.

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 6e9836b1bd1d..432faec21547 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1629,10 +1629,6 @@ unsigned long shmem_allowable_huge_orders(struct 
inode *inode,
         unsigned long mask = READ_ONCE(huge_shmem_orders_always);
         unsigned long within_size_orders = 
READ_ONCE(huge_shmem_orders_within_size);
         unsigned long vm_flags = vma->vm_flags;
-       /*
-        * Check all the (large) orders below MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER + 1 that
-        * are enabled for this vma.
-        */
         unsigned long orders = THP_ORDERS_ALL_FILE_DEFAULT;
         loff_t i_size;
         int order;

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