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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 01:06:01 -0600
From: Nico Pache <npache@...hat.com>
To: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/12] introduce khugepaged_collapse_single_pmd to
 unify khugepaged and madvise_collapse

On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM Baolin Wang
<baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 2025/4/17 08:02, Nico Pache wrote:
> > The khugepaged daemon and madvise_collapse have two different
> > implementations that do almost the same thing.
> >
> > Create khugepaged_collapse_single_pmd to increase code
> > reuse and create an entry point for future khugepaged changes.
> >
> > Refactor madvise_collapse and khugepaged_scan_mm_slot to use
> > the new khugepaged_collapse_single_pmd function.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@...hat.com>
>
> Can you add a prefix 'khugepaged:' for the subject line?
I had that originally but the subject line is already extremely long.
>
> > ---
> >   mm/khugepaged.c | 92 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
> >   1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
> > index b8838ba8207a..cecadc4239e7 100644
> > --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
> > +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
> > @@ -2363,6 +2363,48 @@ static int hpage_collapse_scan_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> >   }
> >   #endif
> >
> > +/*
> > + * Try to collapse a single PMD starting at a PMD aligned addr, and return
> > + * the results.
> > + */
> > +static int khugepaged_collapse_single_pmd(unsigned long addr,
> > +                                struct vm_area_struct *vma, bool *mmap_locked,
> > +                                struct collapse_control *cc)
> > +{
> > +     int result = SCAN_FAIL;
> > +     struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
> > +     unsigned long tva_flags = cc->is_khugepaged ? TVA_ENFORCE_SYSFS : 0;
> > +
> > +     if (thp_vma_allowable_order(vma, vma->vm_flags,
> > +                                     tva_flags, PMD_ORDER)) {
>
> We've already checked the thp_vma_allowable_order() before calling this
> function, why check again?
>
> > +             if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SHMEM) && !vma_is_anonymous(vma)) {
> > +                     struct file *file = get_file(vma->vm_file);
> > +                     pgoff_t pgoff = linear_page_index(vma, addr);
> > +
> > +                     mmap_read_unlock(mm);
> > +                     *mmap_locked = false;
> > +                     result = hpage_collapse_scan_file(mm, addr, file, pgoff,
> > +                                                       cc);
> > +                     fput(file);
> > +                     if (result == SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE) {
> > +                             mmap_read_lock(mm);
> > +                             if (hpage_collapse_test_exit_or_disable(mm))
> > +                                     goto end;
> > +                             result = collapse_pte_mapped_thp(mm, addr,
> > +                                                              !cc->is_khugepaged);
>
> why drop the following check?
> if (*result == SCAN_PMD_MAPPED)
>         *result = SCAN_SUCCEED;

Good catch! When generalizing this for madvise_collapse i forgot to
properly handle the khugepaged case of PMD_MAPPED==SUCCEED.
>
> > +                             mmap_read_unlock(mm);
> > +                     }
> > +             } else {
> > +                     result = hpage_collapse_scan_pmd(mm, vma, addr,
> > +                                                      mmap_locked, cc);
> > +             }
> > +             if (cc->is_khugepaged && result == SCAN_SUCCEED)
> > +                     ++khugepaged_pages_collapsed;
> > +     }
> > +end:
> > +     return result;
> > +}
> > +
> >   static unsigned int khugepaged_scan_mm_slot(unsigned int pages, int *result,
> >                                           struct collapse_control *cc)
> >       __releases(&khugepaged_mm_lock)
> > @@ -2437,33 +2479,9 @@ static unsigned int khugepaged_scan_mm_slot(unsigned int pages, int *result,
> >                       VM_BUG_ON(khugepaged_scan.address < hstart ||
> >                                 khugepaged_scan.address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE >
> >                                 hend);
> > -                     if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SHMEM) && !vma_is_anonymous(vma)) {
> > -                             struct file *file = get_file(vma->vm_file);
> > -                             pgoff_t pgoff = linear_page_index(vma,
> > -                                             khugepaged_scan.address);
> >
> > -                             mmap_read_unlock(mm);
> > -                             mmap_locked = false;
> > -                             *result = hpage_collapse_scan_file(mm,
> > -                                     khugepaged_scan.address, file, pgoff, cc);
> > -                             fput(file);
> > -                             if (*result == SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE) {
> > -                                     mmap_read_lock(mm);
> > -                                     if (hpage_collapse_test_exit_or_disable(mm))
> > -                                             goto breakouterloop;
> > -                                     *result = collapse_pte_mapped_thp(mm,
> > -                                             khugepaged_scan.address, false);
> > -                                     if (*result == SCAN_PMD_MAPPED)
> > -                                             *result = SCAN_SUCCEED;
> > -                                     mmap_read_unlock(mm);
> > -                             }
> > -                     } else {
> > -                             *result = hpage_collapse_scan_pmd(mm, vma,
> > -                                     khugepaged_scan.address, &mmap_locked, cc);
> > -                     }
> > -
> > -                     if (*result == SCAN_SUCCEED)
> > -                             ++khugepaged_pages_collapsed;
> > +                     *result = khugepaged_collapse_single_pmd(khugepaged_scan.address,
> > +                                             vma, &mmap_locked, cc);
>
> If the khugepaged_collapse_single_pmd() returns a failure caused by
> hpage_collapse_test_exit_or_disable(), we should break out of the loop
> according to the original logic. But you've changed the action in this
> patch, is this intentional?

Nope, not intentional! Thanks for pointing that out. I'll get that fixed!

Thanks for the in depth review ! I'll work on cleaning up these corner cases.
>
> >
> >                       /* move to next address */
> >                       khugepaged_scan.address += HPAGE_PMD_SIZE;
> > @@ -2783,36 +2801,18 @@ int madvise_collapse(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct **prev,
> >               mmap_assert_locked(mm);
> >               memset(cc->node_load, 0, sizeof(cc->node_load));
> >               nodes_clear(cc->alloc_nmask);
> > -             if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SHMEM) && !vma_is_anonymous(vma)) {
> > -                     struct file *file = get_file(vma->vm_file);
> > -                     pgoff_t pgoff = linear_page_index(vma, addr);
> >
> > -                     mmap_read_unlock(mm);
> > -                     mmap_locked = false;
> > -                     result = hpage_collapse_scan_file(mm, addr, file, pgoff,
> > -                                                       cc);
> > -                     fput(file);
> > -             } else {
> > -                     result = hpage_collapse_scan_pmd(mm, vma, addr,
> > -                                                      &mmap_locked, cc);
> > -             }
> > +             result = khugepaged_collapse_single_pmd(addr, vma, &mmap_locked, cc);
> > +
> >               if (!mmap_locked)
> >                       *prev = NULL;  /* Tell caller we dropped mmap_lock */
> >
> > -handle_result:
> >               switch (result) {
> >               case SCAN_SUCCEED:
> >               case SCAN_PMD_MAPPED:
> >                       ++thps;
> >                       break;
> >               case SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE:
> > -                     BUG_ON(mmap_locked);
> > -                     BUG_ON(*prev);
> > -                     mmap_read_lock(mm);
> > -                     result = collapse_pte_mapped_thp(mm, addr, true);
> > -                     mmap_read_unlock(mm);
> > -                     goto handle_result;
> > -             /* Whitelisted set of results where continuing OK */
> >               case SCAN_PMD_NULL:
> >               case SCAN_PTE_NON_PRESENT:
> >               case SCAN_PTE_UFFD_WP:
>


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