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Message-ID: <b25b3610-5755-4b7e-9a9f-d7f1dc3e4bdc@nvidia.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2025 10:26:05 +1000
From: Balbir Singh <balbirs@...dia.com>
To: Mika Penttilä <mpenttil@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Karol Herbst <kherbst@...hat.com>, Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>,
 Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
 Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>, Jérôme Glisse
 <jglisse@...hat.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
 David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, Barry Song <baohua@...nel.org>,
 Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
 Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
 Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>,
 Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>, Jane Chu <jane.chu@...cle.com>,
 Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>, Donet Tom <donettom@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [v1 resend 08/12] mm/thp: add split during migration support

On 7/4/25 16:43, Mika Penttilä wrote:
> 
> On 7/4/25 08:17, Mika Penttilä wrote:
>> On 7/4/25 02:35, Balbir Singh wrote:
>>> Support splitting pages during THP zone device migration as needed.
>>> The common case that arises is that after setup, during migrate
>>> the destination might not be able to allocate MIGRATE_PFN_COMPOUND
>>> pages.
>>>
>>> Add a new routine migrate_vma_split_pages() to support the splitting
>>> of already isolated pages. The pages being migrated are already unmapped
>>> and marked for migration during setup (via unmap). folio_split() and
>>> __split_unmapped_folio() take additional isolated arguments, to avoid
>>> unmapping and remaping these pages and unlocking/putting the folio.
>>>
>>> Cc: Karol Herbst <kherbst@...hat.com>
>>> Cc: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
>>> Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
>>> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
>>> Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>
>>> Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@...hat.com>
>>> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
>>> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
>>> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@...nel.org>
>>> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
>>> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>
>>> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
>>> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
>>> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>
>>> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>
>>> Cc: Jane Chu <jane.chu@...cle.com>
>>> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>
>>> Cc: Donet Tom <donettom@...ux.ibm.com>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbirs@...dia.com>
>>> ---
>>>  include/linux/huge_mm.h | 11 ++++++--
>>>  mm/huge_memory.c        | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>>>  mm/migrate_device.c     | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>>>  3 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
>>> index 65a1bdf29bb9..5f55a754e57c 100644
>>> --- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
>>> +++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
>>> @@ -343,8 +343,8 @@ unsigned long thp_get_unmapped_area_vmflags(struct file *filp, unsigned long add
>>>  		vm_flags_t vm_flags);
>>>  
>>>  bool can_split_folio(struct folio *folio, int caller_pins, int *pextra_pins);
>>> -int split_huge_page_to_list_to_order(struct page *page, struct list_head *list,
>>> -		unsigned int new_order);
>>> +int __split_huge_page_to_list_to_order(struct page *page, struct list_head *list,
>>> +		unsigned int new_order, bool isolated);
>>>  int min_order_for_split(struct folio *folio);
>>>  int split_folio_to_list(struct folio *folio, struct list_head *list);
>>>  bool uniform_split_supported(struct folio *folio, unsigned int new_order,
>>> @@ -353,6 +353,13 @@ bool non_uniform_split_supported(struct folio *folio, unsigned int new_order,
>>>  		bool warns);
>>>  int folio_split(struct folio *folio, unsigned int new_order, struct page *page,
>>>  		struct list_head *list);
>>> +
>>> +static inline int split_huge_page_to_list_to_order(struct page *page, struct list_head *list,
>>> +		unsigned int new_order)
>>> +{
>>> +	return __split_huge_page_to_list_to_order(page, list, new_order, false);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>>  /*
>>>   * try_folio_split - try to split a @folio at @page using non uniform split.
>>>   * @folio: folio to be split
>>> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
>>> index d55e36ae0c39..e00ddfed22fa 100644
>>> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
>>> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
>>> @@ -3424,15 +3424,6 @@ static void __split_folio_to_order(struct folio *folio, int old_order,
>>>  		new_folio->mapping = folio->mapping;
>>>  		new_folio->index = folio->index + i;
>>>  
>>> -		/*
>>> -		 * page->private should not be set in tail pages. Fix up and warn once
>>> -		 * if private is unexpectedly set.
>>> -		 */
>>> -		if (unlikely(new_folio->private)) {
>>> -			VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_PAGE(true, new_head);
>>> -			new_folio->private = NULL;
>>> -		}
>>> -
>>>  		if (folio_test_swapcache(folio))
>>>  			new_folio->swap.val = folio->swap.val + i;
>>>  
>>> @@ -3519,7 +3510,7 @@ static int __split_unmapped_folio(struct folio *folio, int new_order,
>>>  		struct page *split_at, struct page *lock_at,
>>>  		struct list_head *list, pgoff_t end,
>>>  		struct xa_state *xas, struct address_space *mapping,
>>> -		bool uniform_split)
>>> +		bool uniform_split, bool isolated)
>>>  {
>>>  	struct lruvec *lruvec;
>>>  	struct address_space *swap_cache = NULL;
>>> @@ -3643,8 +3634,9 @@ static int __split_unmapped_folio(struct folio *folio, int new_order,
>>>  				percpu_ref_get_many(&release->pgmap->ref,
>>>  							(1 << new_order) - 1);
>>>  
>>> -			lru_add_split_folio(origin_folio, release, lruvec,
>>> -					list);
>>> +			if (!isolated)
>>> +				lru_add_split_folio(origin_folio, release,
>>> +							lruvec, list);
>>>  
>>>  			/* Some pages can be beyond EOF: drop them from cache */
>>>  			if (release->index >= end) {
>>> @@ -3697,6 +3689,12 @@ static int __split_unmapped_folio(struct folio *folio, int new_order,
>>>  	if (nr_dropped)
>>>  		shmem_uncharge(mapping->host, nr_dropped);
>>>  
>>> +	/*
>>> +	 * Don't remap and unlock isolated folios
>>> +	 */
>>> +	if (isolated)
>>> +		return ret;
>>> +
>>>  	remap_page(origin_folio, 1 << order,
>>>  			folio_test_anon(origin_folio) ?
>>>  				RMP_USE_SHARED_ZEROPAGE : 0);
>>> @@ -3790,6 +3788,7 @@ bool uniform_split_supported(struct folio *folio, unsigned int new_order,
>>>   * @lock_at: a page within @folio to be left locked to caller
>>>   * @list: after-split folios will be put on it if non NULL
>>>   * @uniform_split: perform uniform split or not (non-uniform split)
>>> + * @isolated: The pages are already unmapped
>>>   *
>>>   * It calls __split_unmapped_folio() to perform uniform and non-uniform split.
>>>   * It is in charge of checking whether the split is supported or not and
>>> @@ -3800,7 +3799,7 @@ bool uniform_split_supported(struct folio *folio, unsigned int new_order,
>>>   */
>>>  static int __folio_split(struct folio *folio, unsigned int new_order,
>>>  		struct page *split_at, struct page *lock_at,
>>> -		struct list_head *list, bool uniform_split)
>>> +		struct list_head *list, bool uniform_split, bool isolated)
>>>  {
>>>  	struct deferred_split *ds_queue = get_deferred_split_queue(folio);
>>>  	XA_STATE(xas, &folio->mapping->i_pages, folio->index);
>>> @@ -3846,14 +3845,16 @@ static int __folio_split(struct folio *folio, unsigned int new_order,
>>>  		 * is taken to serialise against parallel split or collapse
>>>  		 * operations.
>>>  		 */
>>> -		anon_vma = folio_get_anon_vma(folio);
>>> -		if (!anon_vma) {
>>> -			ret = -EBUSY;
>>> -			goto out;
>>> +		if (!isolated) {
>>> +			anon_vma = folio_get_anon_vma(folio);
>>> +			if (!anon_vma) {
>>> +				ret = -EBUSY;
>>> +				goto out;
>>> +			}
>>> +			anon_vma_lock_write(anon_vma);
>>>  		}
>>>  		end = -1;
>>>  		mapping = NULL;
>>> -		anon_vma_lock_write(anon_vma);
>>>  	} else {
>>>  		unsigned int min_order;
>>>  		gfp_t gfp;
>>> @@ -3920,7 +3921,8 @@ static int __folio_split(struct folio *folio, unsigned int new_order,
>>>  		goto out_unlock;
>>>  	}
>>>  
>>> -	unmap_folio(folio);
>>> +	if (!isolated)
>>> +		unmap_folio(folio);
>>>  
>>>  	/* block interrupt reentry in xa_lock and spinlock */
>>>  	local_irq_disable();
>>> @@ -3973,14 +3975,15 @@ static int __folio_split(struct folio *folio, unsigned int new_order,
>>>  
>>>  		ret = __split_unmapped_folio(folio, new_order,
>>>  				split_at, lock_at, list, end, &xas, mapping,
>>> -				uniform_split);
>>> +				uniform_split, isolated);
>>>  	} else {
>>>  		spin_unlock(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock);
>>>  fail:
>>>  		if (mapping)
>>>  			xas_unlock(&xas);
>>>  		local_irq_enable();
>>> -		remap_page(folio, folio_nr_pages(folio), 0);
>>> +		if (!isolated)
>>> +			remap_page(folio, folio_nr_pages(folio), 0);
>>>  		ret = -EAGAIN;
>>>  	}
>>>  
>>> @@ -4046,12 +4049,13 @@ static int __folio_split(struct folio *folio, unsigned int new_order,
>>>   * Returns -EINVAL when trying to split to an order that is incompatible
>>>   * with the folio. Splitting to order 0 is compatible with all folios.
>>>   */
>>> -int split_huge_page_to_list_to_order(struct page *page, struct list_head *list,
>>> -				     unsigned int new_order)
>>> +int __split_huge_page_to_list_to_order(struct page *page, struct list_head *list,
>>> +				     unsigned int new_order, bool isolated)
>>>  {
>>>  	struct folio *folio = page_folio(page);
>>>  
>>> -	return __folio_split(folio, new_order, &folio->page, page, list, true);
>>> +	return __folio_split(folio, new_order, &folio->page, page, list, true,
>>> +				isolated);
>>>  }
>>>  
>>>  /*
>>> @@ -4080,7 +4084,7 @@ int folio_split(struct folio *folio, unsigned int new_order,
>>>  		struct page *split_at, struct list_head *list)
>>>  {
>>>  	return __folio_split(folio, new_order, split_at, &folio->page, list,
>>> -			false);
>>> +			false, false);
>>>  }
>>>  
>>>  int min_order_for_split(struct folio *folio)
>>> diff --git a/mm/migrate_device.c b/mm/migrate_device.c
>>> index 41d0bd787969..acd2f03b178d 100644
>>> --- a/mm/migrate_device.c
>>> +++ b/mm/migrate_device.c
>>> @@ -813,6 +813,24 @@ static int migrate_vma_insert_huge_pmd_page(struct migrate_vma *migrate,
>>>  		src[i] &= ~MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE;
>>>  	return 0;
>>>  }
>>> +
>>> +static void migrate_vma_split_pages(struct migrate_vma *migrate,
>>> +					unsigned long idx, unsigned long addr,
>>> +					struct folio *folio)
>>> +{
>>> +	unsigned long i;
>>> +	unsigned long pfn;
>>> +	unsigned long flags;
>>> +
>>> +	folio_get(folio);
>>> +	split_huge_pmd_address(migrate->vma, addr, true);
>>> +	__split_huge_page_to_list_to_order(folio_page(folio, 0), NULL, 0, true);
>> We already have reference to folio, why is folio_get() needed ?
>>
>> Splitting the page splits pmd for anon folios, why is there split_huge_pmd_address() ?
> 
> Oh I see 
> +	if (!isolated)
> +		unmap_folio(folio);
> 
> which explains the explicit split_huge_pmd_address(migrate->vma, addr, true);
> 
> Still, why the folio_get(folio);?
>  
> 

That is for split_huge_pmd_address, when called with freeze=true, it drops the
ref count on the page

	if (freeze)
		put_page(page);

Balbir


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