Re: [PATCH 4/7] mm/hmm: properly handle migration pmd

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>]

On Tue 28-08-18 11:36:59, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 05:24:14PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Fri 24-08-18 20:05:46, Zi Yan wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > +	if (!pmd_present(pmd)) {
> > > > +		swp_entry_t entry = pmd_to_swp_entry(pmd);
> > > > +
> > > > +		if (is_migration_entry(entry)) {
> > > 
> > > I think you should check thp_migration_supported() here, since PMD migration is only enabled in x86_64 systems.
> > > Other architectures should treat PMD migration entries as bad.
> > 
> > How can we have a migration pmd entry when the migration is not
> > supported?
> 
> Not sure i follow here, migration can happen anywhere (assuming
> that something like compaction is active or numa or ...). So this
> code can face pmd migration entry on architecture that support
> it. What is missing here is thp_migration_supported() call to
> protect the is_migration_entry() to avoid false positive on arch
> which do not support thp migration.

I mean that architectures which do not support THP migration shouldn't
ever see any migration entry. So is_migration_entry should be always
false. Or do I miss something?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs