Re: [PATCH v6v3 02/12] mm: migrate: support non-lru movable page migration
From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Date: 2016-06-16 05:37:49
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On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 09:12:07AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
On 06/16/2016 05:56 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:quoted
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 12:15:04PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:quoted
On 06/15/2016 08:02 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:quoted
Hi, On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 03:08:19PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:quoted
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On 05/31/2016 05:31 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:quoted
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@@ -791,6 +921,7 @@ static int __unmap_and_move(struct page *page, struct page *newpage, int rc = -EAGAIN; int page_was_mapped = 0; struct anon_vma *anon_vma = NULL; + bool is_lru = !__PageMovable(page); if (!trylock_page(page)) { if (!force || mode == MIGRATE_ASYNC)@@ -871,6 +1002,11 @@ static int __unmap_and_move(struct page *page, struct page *newpage, goto out_unlock_both; } + if (unlikely(!is_lru)) { + rc = move_to_new_page(newpage, page, mode); + goto out_unlock_both; + } +Hello Minchan, I might be missing something here but does this implementation support the scenario where these non LRU pages owned by the driver mapped as PTE into process page table ? Because the "goto out_unlock_both" statement above skips all the PTE unmap, putting a migration PTE and removing the migration PTE steps.You're right. Unfortunately, it doesn't support right now but surely, it's my TODO after landing this work. Could you share your usecase?Sure.Thanks a lot!quoted
My driver has privately managed non LRU pages which gets mapped into user space process page table through f_ops->mmap() and vmops->fault() which then updates the file RMAP (page->mapping->i_mmap) through page_add_file_rmap(page). One thingHmm, page_add_file_rmap is not exported function. How does your driver can use it?Its not using the function directly, I just re-iterated the sequence of functions above. (do_set_pte -> page_add_file_rmap) gets called after we grab the page from driver through (__do_fault->vma->vm_ops->fault()).quoted
Do you use vm_insert_pfn? What type your vma is? VM_PFNMMAP or VM_MIXEDMAP?I dont use vm_insert_pfn(). Here is the sequence of events how the user space VMA gets the non LRU pages from the driver. - Driver registers a character device with 'struct file_operations' binding - Then the 'fops->mmap()' just binds the incoming 'struct vma' with a 'struct vm_operations_struct' which provides the 'vmops->fault()' routine which basically traps all page faults on the VMA and provides one page at a time through a driver specific allocation routine which hands over non LRU pages The VMA is not anything special as such. Its what we get when we try to do a simple mmap() on a file descriptor pointing to a character device. I can figure out all the VM_* flags it holds after creation.quoted
I want to make dummy driver to simulate your case.Sure. I hope the above mentioned steps will help you but in case you need more information, please do let me know.
I got understood now. :) I will test it with dummy driver and will Cc'ed when I send a patch. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>