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Message-ID: <06a0e258-2c68-43ee-ab53-313a13ed0d68@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 08:38:35 +0300
From: Mika Penttilä <mpenttil@...hat.com>
To: Balbir Singh <balbirs@...dia.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: damon@...ts.linux.dev, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
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: [v5 06/15] mm/migrate_device: implement THP migration of zone
device pages
On 9/12/25 08:28, Mika Penttilä wrote:
> On 9/12/25 08:04, Balbir Singh wrote:
>
>> On 9/11/25 21:52, Mika Penttilä wrote:
>>> sending again for the v5 thread..
>>>
>>> On 9/8/25 03:04, 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 | 456 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>>>> 2 files changed, 395 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/include/linux/migrate.h b/include/linux/migrate.h
>>>> index 1f0ac122c3bf..41b4cc05a450 100644
>>>> --- a/include/linux/migrate.h
>>>> +++ b/include/linux/migrate.h
>>>> @@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ 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)
>>>> @@ -143,6 +144,7 @@ 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 f45ef182287d..1dfcf4799ea5 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 <linux/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);
>>>> + }
>>>> +
>>> seems you have to split_huge_pmd() for the huge zero page here in case
>>> of !thp_migration_supported() afaics
>>>
>> Not really, if pfn is 0, we do a vm_insert_page (please see if (!page) line 1107) and
>> folio handling in migrate_vma_finalize line 1284
> Ok actually seems it is handled by migrate_vma_insert_page() which does
>
> if (!pmd_none(*pmdp)) {
> if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmdp)) {
> if (!is_huge_zero_pmd(*pmdp))
> goto abort;
> folio_get(pmd_folio(*pmdp));
> split_huge_pmd(vma, pmdp, addr); <----- here
> } else if (pmd_leaf(*pmdp))
> goto abort;
> }
>
While at it, think the folio_get(pmd_folio(*pmdp)); is wrong for here,
we split the pmd for huge zero page.
>> Thanks,
>> Balbir
>>
> --Mika
>
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