Thread (54 messages) 54 messages, 4 authors, 2023-06-29

Re: [PATCH v1 01/10] mm: Expose clear_huge_page() unconditionally

From: Yu Zhao <hidden>
Date: 2023-06-27 08:31:54
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On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 1:21 AM Ryan Roberts [off-list ref] wrote:
On 27/06/2023 02:55, Yu Zhao wrote:
quoted
On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 11:14 AM Ryan Roberts [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
In preparation for extending vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio() to
allocate a arbitrary order folio, expose clear_huge_page()
unconditionally, so that it can be used to zero the allocated folio in
the generic implementation of vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio().

Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
---
 include/linux/mm.h | 3 ++-
 mm/memory.c        | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 7f1741bd870a..7e3bf45e6491 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -3684,10 +3684,11 @@ enum mf_action_page_type {
  */
 extern const struct attribute_group memory_failure_attr_group;

-#if defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) || defined(CONFIG_HUGETLBFS)
 extern void clear_huge_page(struct page *page,
                            unsigned long addr_hint,
                            unsigned int pages_per_huge_page);
+
+#if defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) || defined(CONFIG_HUGETLBFS)
We might not want to depend on THP eventually. Right now, we still
have to, unless splitting is optional, which seems to contradict
06/10. (deferred_split_folio()  is a nop without THP.)
Yes, I agree - for large anon folios to work, we depend on THP. But I don't
think that helps us here.

In the next patch, I give vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio() an extra `order`
parameter. So the generic/default version of the function now needs a way to
clear a compound page.

I guess I could do something like:

 static inline
 struct folio *vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
                                   unsigned long vaddr, gfp_t gfp, int order)
 {
        struct folio *folio;

        folio = vma_alloc_folio(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | gfp,
                                        order, vma, vaddr, false);
        if (folio) {
#ifdef CONFIG_LARGE_FOLIO
                clear_huge_page(&folio->page, vaddr, 1U << order);
#else
                BUG_ON(order != 0);
                clear_user_highpage(&folio->page, vaddr);
#endif
        }

        return folio;
 }

But that's pretty messy and there's no reason why other users might come along
that pass order != 0 and will be surprised by the BUG_ON.
#ifdef CONFIG_LARGE_ANON_FOLIO // depends on CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGE
struct folio *alloc_anon_folio(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned
long vaddr, int order)
{
  // how do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page() allocs and clears
  vma_alloc_folio(..., *true*);
}
#else
#define alloc_anon_folio(vma, addr, order)
vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio(vma, addr)
#endif

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