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Message-ID: <8f63f6bd-41ab-c819-291c-f66c239da27b@huawei.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 16:12:29 +0800
From: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@...wei.com>
To: Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>, Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, Oscar
Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>, Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>, Peter
Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
CC: <linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm/hugetlb: update nr_huge_pages and
surplus_huge_pages together
On 2025/3/5 11:54, Liu Shixin wrote:
> In alloc_surplus_hugetlb_folio(), we increase nr_huge_pages and
> surplus_huge_pages separately. In the middle window, if we set
> nr_hugepages to smaller and satisfy count < persistent_huge_pages(h),
> the surplus_huge_pages will be increased by adjust_pool_surplus().
>
> After adding delay in the middle window, we can reproduce the problem
> easily by following step:
>
> 1. echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages
> 2. mmap two hugepages. When nr_huge_pages=2 and surplus_huge_pages=1,
> goto step 3.
> 3. echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_huge_pages
>
> Finally, nr_huge_pages is less than surplus_huge_pages.
>
> To fix the problem, call only_alloc_fresh_hugetlb_folio() instead and
> move down __prep_account_new_huge_page() into the hugetlb_lock.
>
> Fixes: 0c397daea1d4 ("mm, hugetlb: further simplify hugetlb allocation API")
> Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@...wei.com>
> ---
> v2->v3: Modify the comment suggested by Oscar.
> mm/hugetlb.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 9faa1034704ff..0e08d2fff2360 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -2253,11 +2253,20 @@ static struct folio *alloc_surplus_hugetlb_folio(struct hstate *h,
> goto out_unlock;
> spin_unlock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
>
> - folio = alloc_fresh_hugetlb_folio(h, gfp_mask, nid, nmask);
> + folio = only_alloc_fresh_hugetlb_folio(h, gfp_mask, nid, nmask, NULL);
> if (!folio)
> return NULL;
>
> + hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folio(h, folio);
> +
> spin_lock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
> + /*
> + * nr_huge_pages needs to be adjusted within the same lock cycle
> + * as surplus_pages, otherwise it might confuse
> + * persistent_huge_pages() momentarily.
> + */
> + __prep_account_new_huge_page(h, nid);
> +
> /*
> * We could have raced with the pool size change.
> * Double check that and simply deallocate the new page
Hi,
Sorry, there's a mistake that the nid may be mismatch.
Please use the following code to fix it, or should I send a fix patch ?
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 39f92aad7bd1..6670f9b9e07a 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2271,7 +2271,7 @@ static struct folio *alloc_surplus_hugetlb_folio(struct hstate *h,
* as surplus_pages, otherwise it might confuse
* persistent_huge_pages() momentarily.
*/
- __prep_account_new_huge_page(h, nid);
+ __prep_account_new_huge_page(h, folio_nid(folio));
/*
* We could have raced with the pool size change.
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