Thread (33 messages) 33 messages, 6 authors, 2015-02-16

Re: [PATCH v17 7/7] mm: Don't split THP page when syscall is called

From: Michal Hocko <hidden>
Date: 2014-11-27 15:49:28
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

On Mon 20-10-14 19:12:04, Minchan Kim wrote:
We don't need to split THP page when MADV_FREE syscall is
called. It could be done when VM decide really frees it so
we could avoid unnecessary THP split.

Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <redacted>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <redacted>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Other than a minor comment below
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <redacted>
---
 include/linux/huge_mm.h |  4 ++++
 mm/huge_memory.c        | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 mm/madvise.c            | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 mm/rmap.c               |  8 ++++++--
 mm/vmscan.c             | 28 ++++++++++++++++++----------
 5 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
[...]
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index a21584235bb6..84badee5f46d 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -271,8 +271,26 @@ static int madvise_free_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
 	spinlock_t *ptl;
 	pte_t *pte, ptent;
 	struct page *page;
+	unsigned long next;
+
+	next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
+	if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
+		if (next - addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
+			if (!rwsem_is_locked(&mm->mmap_sem)) {
+				pr_err("%s: mmap_sem is unlocked! addr=0x%lx end=0x%lx vma->vm_start=0x%lx vma->vm_end=0x%lx\n",
+					__func__, addr, end,
+					vma->vm_start,
+					vma->vm_end);
+				BUG();
+			}
+#endif
Why is this code here? madvise_free_pte_range is called only from the
madvise path and we are holding mmap_sem and relying on that for regular
pages as well.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+			split_huge_page_pmd(vma, addr, pmd);
+		} else if (!madvise_free_huge_pmd(tlb, vma, pmd, addr))
+			goto next;
+		/* fall through */
+	}
 
-	split_huge_page_pmd(vma, addr, pmd);
 	if (pmd_trans_unstable(pmd))
 		return 0;
 
@@ -316,6 +334,7 @@ static int madvise_free_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
 	}
 	arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
 	pte_unmap_unlock(pte - 1, ptl);
+next:
 	cond_resched();
 	return 0;
 }
[...]
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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