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Message-ID: <9207451b-ebd1-46d5-b277-2adf3028f361@nvidia.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:36:10 +1000
From: Balbir Singh <balbirs@...dia.com>
To: Mika Penttilä <mpenttil@...hat.com>,
 dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
 David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>,
 Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@...il.com>, Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@...com>,
 Byungchul Park <byungchul@...com>, Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net>,
 Ying Huang <ying.huang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
 Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>, Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>,
 Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
 "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>, Nico Pache <npache@...hat.com>,
 Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com>,
 Barry Song <baohua@...nel.org>, Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>,
 Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
 Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>, Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>,
 Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@...el.com>,
 Francois Dugast <francois.dugast@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [v3 03/11] mm/migrate_device: THP migration of zone device pages

On 8/12/25 15:35, Mika Penttilä wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 8/12/25 05:40, Balbir Singh wrote:
> 
>> MIGRATE_VMA_SELECT_COMPOUND will be used to select THP pages during
>> migrate_vma_setup() and MIGRATE_PFN_COMPOUND will make migrating
>> device pages as compound pages during device pfn migration.
>>
>> migrate_device code paths go through the collect, setup
>> and finalize phases of migration.
>>
>> The entries in src and dst arrays passed to these functions still
>> remain at a PAGE_SIZE granularity. When a compound page is passed,
>> the first entry has the PFN along with MIGRATE_PFN_COMPOUND
>> and other flags set (MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE, MIGRATE_PFN_VALID), the
>> remaining entries (HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1) are filled with 0's. This
>> representation allows for the compound page to be split into smaller
>> page sizes.
>>
>> migrate_vma_collect_hole(), migrate_vma_collect_pmd() are now THP
>> page aware. Two new helper functions migrate_vma_collect_huge_pmd()
>> and migrate_vma_insert_huge_pmd_page() have been added.
>>
>> migrate_vma_collect_huge_pmd() can collect THP pages, but if for
>> some reason this fails, there is fallback support to split the folio
>> and migrate it.
>>
>> migrate_vma_insert_huge_pmd_page() closely follows the logic of
>> migrate_vma_insert_page()
>>
>> Support for splitting pages as needed for migration will follow in
>> later patches in this series.
>>
>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
>> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
>> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>
>> Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@...il.com>
>> Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@...com>
>> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@...com>
>> Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net>
>> Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@...ux.alibaba.com>
>> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>
>> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
>> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
>> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
>> Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>
>> Cc: Nico Pache <npache@...hat.com>
>> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>
>> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com>
>> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@...nel.org>
>> 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: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>
>> Cc: Mika Penttilä <mpenttil@...hat.com>
>> Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@...el.com>
>> Cc: Francois Dugast <francois.dugast@...el.com>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbirs@...dia.com>
>> ---
>>  include/linux/migrate.h |   2 +
>>  mm/migrate_device.c     | 457 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>>  2 files changed, 396 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/migrate.h b/include/linux/migrate.h
>> index acadd41e0b5c..d9cef0819f91 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/migrate.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/migrate.h
>> @@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ static inline int migrate_misplaced_folio(struct folio *folio, int node)
>>  #define MIGRATE_PFN_VALID	(1UL << 0)
>>  #define MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE	(1UL << 1)
>>  #define MIGRATE_PFN_WRITE	(1UL << 3)
>> +#define MIGRATE_PFN_COMPOUND	(1UL << 4)
>>  #define MIGRATE_PFN_SHIFT	6
>>  
>>  static inline struct page *migrate_pfn_to_page(unsigned long mpfn)
>> @@ -147,6 +148,7 @@ enum migrate_vma_direction {
>>  	MIGRATE_VMA_SELECT_SYSTEM = 1 << 0,
>>  	MIGRATE_VMA_SELECT_DEVICE_PRIVATE = 1 << 1,
>>  	MIGRATE_VMA_SELECT_DEVICE_COHERENT = 1 << 2,
>> +	MIGRATE_VMA_SELECT_COMPOUND = 1 << 3,
>>  };
>>  
>>  struct migrate_vma {
>> diff --git a/mm/migrate_device.c b/mm/migrate_device.c
>> index 0ed337f94fcd..6621bba62710 100644
>> --- a/mm/migrate_device.c
>> +++ b/mm/migrate_device.c
>> @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
>>  #include <linux/pagewalk.h>
>>  #include <linux/rmap.h>
>>  #include <linux/swapops.h>
>> +#include <asm/pgalloc.h>
>>  #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
>>  #include "internal.h"
>>  
>> @@ -44,6 +45,23 @@ static int migrate_vma_collect_hole(unsigned long start,
>>  	if (!vma_is_anonymous(walk->vma))
>>  		return migrate_vma_collect_skip(start, end, walk);
>>  
>> +	if (thp_migration_supported() &&
>> +		(migrate->flags & MIGRATE_VMA_SELECT_COMPOUND) &&
>> +		(IS_ALIGNED(start, HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) &&
>> +		 IS_ALIGNED(end, HPAGE_PMD_SIZE))) {
>> +		migrate->src[migrate->npages] = MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE |
>> +						MIGRATE_PFN_COMPOUND;
>> +		migrate->dst[migrate->npages] = 0;
>> +		migrate->npages++;
>> +		migrate->cpages++;
>> +
>> +		/*
>> +		 * Collect the remaining entries as holes, in case we
>> +		 * need to split later
>> +		 */
>> +		return migrate_vma_collect_skip(start + PAGE_SIZE, end, walk);
>> +	}
>> +
>>  	for (addr = start; addr < end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
>>  		migrate->src[migrate->npages] = MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE;
>>  		migrate->dst[migrate->npages] = 0;
>> @@ -54,57 +72,151 @@ static int migrate_vma_collect_hole(unsigned long start,
>>  	return 0;
>>  }
>>  
>> -static int migrate_vma_collect_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp,
>> -				   unsigned long start,
>> -				   unsigned long end,
>> -				   struct mm_walk *walk)
>> +/**
>> + * migrate_vma_collect_huge_pmd - collect THP pages without splitting the
>> + * folio for device private pages.
>> + * @pmdp: pointer to pmd entry
>> + * @start: start address of the range for migration
>> + * @end: end address of the range for migration
>> + * @walk: mm_walk callback structure
>> + *
>> + * Collect the huge pmd entry at @pmdp for migration and set the
>> + * MIGRATE_PFN_COMPOUND flag in the migrate src entry to indicate that
>> + * migration will occur at HPAGE_PMD granularity
>> + */
>> +static int migrate_vma_collect_huge_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long start,
>> +					unsigned long end, struct mm_walk *walk,
>> +					struct folio *fault_folio)
>>  {
>> +	struct mm_struct *mm = walk->mm;
>> +	struct folio *folio;
>>  	struct migrate_vma *migrate = walk->private;
>> -	struct folio *fault_folio = migrate->fault_page ?
>> -		page_folio(migrate->fault_page) : NULL;
>> -	struct vm_area_struct *vma = walk->vma;
>> -	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
>> -	unsigned long addr = start, unmapped = 0;
>>  	spinlock_t *ptl;
>> -	pte_t *ptep;
>> +	swp_entry_t entry;
>> +	int ret;
>> +	unsigned long write = 0;
>>  
>> -again:
>> -	if (pmd_none(*pmdp))
>> +	ptl = pmd_lock(mm, pmdp);
>> +	if (pmd_none(*pmdp)) {
>> +		spin_unlock(ptl);
>>  		return migrate_vma_collect_hole(start, end, -1, walk);
>> +	}
>>  
>>  	if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmdp)) {
>> -		struct folio *folio;
>> -
>> -		ptl = pmd_lock(mm, pmdp);
>> -		if (unlikely(!pmd_trans_huge(*pmdp))) {
>> +		if (!(migrate->flags & MIGRATE_VMA_SELECT_SYSTEM)) {
>>  			spin_unlock(ptl);
>> -			goto again;
>> +			return migrate_vma_collect_skip(start, end, walk);
>>  		}
>>  
>>  		folio = pmd_folio(*pmdp);
>>  		if (is_huge_zero_folio(folio)) {
>>  			spin_unlock(ptl);
>> -			split_huge_pmd(vma, pmdp, addr);
>> -		} else {
>> -			int ret;
>> +			return migrate_vma_collect_hole(start, end, -1, walk);
>> +		}
>> +		if (pmd_write(*pmdp))
>> +			write = MIGRATE_PFN_WRITE;
>> +	} else if (!pmd_present(*pmdp)) {
>> +		entry = pmd_to_swp_entry(*pmdp);
>> +		folio = pfn_swap_entry_folio(entry);
>> +
>> +		if (!is_device_private_entry(entry) ||
>> +			!(migrate->flags & MIGRATE_VMA_SELECT_DEVICE_PRIVATE) ||
>> +			(folio->pgmap->owner != migrate->pgmap_owner)) {
>> +			spin_unlock(ptl);
>> +			return migrate_vma_collect_skip(start, end, walk);
>> +		}
>>  
>> -			folio_get(folio);
>> +		if (is_migration_entry(entry)) {
>> +			migration_entry_wait_on_locked(entry, ptl);
>>  			spin_unlock(ptl);
>> -			/* FIXME: we don't expect THP for fault_folio */
>> -			if (WARN_ON_ONCE(fault_folio == folio))
>> -				return migrate_vma_collect_skip(start, end,
>> -								walk);
>> -			if (unlikely(!folio_trylock(folio)))
>> -				return migrate_vma_collect_skip(start, end,
>> -								walk);
>> -			ret = split_folio(folio);
>> -			if (fault_folio != folio)
>> -				folio_unlock(folio);
>> -			folio_put(folio);
>> -			if (ret)
>> -				return migrate_vma_collect_skip(start, end,
>> -								walk);
>> +			return -EAGAIN;
>>  		}
>> +
>> +		if (is_writable_device_private_entry(entry))
>> +			write = MIGRATE_PFN_WRITE;
>> +	} else {
>> +		spin_unlock(ptl);
>> +		return -EAGAIN;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	folio_get(folio);
>> +	if (folio != fault_folio && unlikely(!folio_trylock(folio))) {
>> +		spin_unlock(ptl);
>> +		folio_put(folio);
>> +		return migrate_vma_collect_skip(start, end, walk);
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	if (thp_migration_supported() &&
>> +		(migrate->flags & MIGRATE_VMA_SELECT_COMPOUND) &&
>> +		(IS_ALIGNED(start, HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) &&
>> +		 IS_ALIGNED(end, HPAGE_PMD_SIZE))) {
>> +
>> +		struct page_vma_mapped_walk pvmw = {
>> +			.ptl = ptl,
>> +			.address = start,
>> +			.pmd = pmdp,
>> +			.vma = walk->vma,
>> +		};
>> +
>> +		unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(folio_page(folio, 0));
>> +
>> +		migrate->src[migrate->npages] = migrate_pfn(pfn) | write
>> +						| MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE
>> +						| MIGRATE_PFN_COMPOUND;
>> +		migrate->dst[migrate->npages++] = 0;
>> +		migrate->cpages++;
>> +		ret = set_pmd_migration_entry(&pvmw, folio_page(folio, 0));
>> +		if (ret) {
>> +			migrate->npages--;
>> +			migrate->cpages--;
>> +			migrate->src[migrate->npages] = 0;
>> +			migrate->dst[migrate->npages] = 0;
>> +			goto fallback;
>> +		}
>> +		migrate_vma_collect_skip(start + PAGE_SIZE, end, walk);
>> +		spin_unlock(ptl);
>> +		return 0;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +fallback:
>> +	spin_unlock(ptl);
>> +	if (!folio_test_large(folio))
>> +		goto done;
>> +	ret = split_folio(folio);
>> +	if (fault_folio != folio)
>> +		folio_unlock(folio);
>> +	folio_put(folio);
>> +	if (ret)
>> +		return migrate_vma_collect_skip(start, end, walk);
>> +	if (pmd_none(pmdp_get_lockless(pmdp)))
>> +		return migrate_vma_collect_hole(start, end, -1, walk);
>> +
>> +done:
>> +	return -ENOENT;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static int migrate_vma_collect_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp,
>> +				   unsigned long start,
>> +				   unsigned long end,
>> +				   struct mm_walk *walk)
>> +{
>> +	struct migrate_vma *migrate = walk->private;
>> +	struct vm_area_struct *vma = walk->vma;
>> +	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
>> +	unsigned long addr = start, unmapped = 0;
>> +	spinlock_t *ptl;
>> +	struct folio *fault_folio = migrate->fault_page ?
>> +		page_folio(migrate->fault_page) : NULL;
>> +	pte_t *ptep;
>> +
>> +again:
>> +	if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmdp) || !pmd_present(*pmdp)) {
>> +		int ret = migrate_vma_collect_huge_pmd(pmdp, start, end, walk, fault_folio);
>> +
>> +		if (ret == -EAGAIN)
>> +			goto again;
>> +		if (ret == 0)
>> +			return 0;
>>  	}
>>  
>>  	ptep = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmdp, addr, &ptl);
>> @@ -222,8 +334,7 @@ static int migrate_vma_collect_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp,
>>  			mpfn |= pte_write(pte) ? MIGRATE_PFN_WRITE : 0;
>>  		}
>>  
>> -		/* FIXME support THP */
>> -		if (!page || !page->mapping || PageTransCompound(page)) {
>> +		if (!page || !page->mapping) {
>>  			mpfn = 0;
>>  			goto next;
>>  		}
>> @@ -394,14 +505,6 @@ static bool migrate_vma_check_page(struct page *page, struct page *fault_page)
>>  	 */
>>  	int extra = 1 + (page == fault_page);
>>  
>> -	/*
>> -	 * FIXME support THP (transparent huge page), it is bit more complex to
>> -	 * check them than regular pages, because they can be mapped with a pmd
>> -	 * or with a pte (split pte mapping).
>> -	 */
>> -	if (folio_test_large(folio))
>> -		return false;
>> -
> 
> You cannot remove this check unless support normal mTHP folios migrate to device, 
> which I think this series doesn't do, but maybe should?
> 

mTHP needs to be a follow up series, there are comments in the cover letter. I had an
assert earlier to prevent other folio sizes, but I've removed it and the interface
to drivers does not allow for mTHP device private folios.

Balbir

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