From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf1-f198.google.com (mail-pf1-f198.google.com [209.85.210.198]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D98EA6B4542 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:10:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pf1-f198.google.com with SMTP id t23-v6so1177752pfe.20 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 09:10:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.suse.de (mx2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u64-v6si1375605pgu.533.2018.08.28.09.10.47 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 28 Aug 2018 09:10:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 18:10:43 +0200 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] mm/hmm: properly handle migration pmd Message-ID: <20180828161043.GT10223@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20180824192549.30844-1-jglisse@redhat.com> <20180824192549.30844-5-jglisse@redhat.com> <0560A126-680A-4BAE-8303-F1AB34BE4BA5@cs.rutgers.edu> <20180828152414.GQ10223@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20180828153658.GA4029@redhat.com> <20180828154206.GR10223@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20180828154555.GS10223@dhcp22.suse.cz> <44C89854-FE83-492F-B6BB-CF54B77233CF@cs.rutgers.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44C89854-FE83-492F-B6BB-CF54B77233CF@cs.rutgers.edu> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Zi Yan Cc: Jerome Glisse , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Aneesh Kumar K . V" , Ralph Campbell , John Hubbard On Tue 28-08-18 11:54:33, Zi Yan wrote: > Hi Michal, > > On 28 Aug 2018, at 11:45, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > On Tue 28-08-18 17:42:06, Michal Hocko wrote: > >> 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? > > > > And just to be clear. thp_migration_supported should be checked only > > when we actually _do_ the migration or evaluate migratability of the > > page. We definitely do want to sprinkle this check to all places where > > is_migration_entry is checked. > > is_migration_entry() is a general check for swp_entry_t, so it can return > true even if THP migration is not enabled. is_pmd_migration_entry() always > returns false when THP migration is not enabled. > > So the code can be changed in two ways, either replacing is_migration_entry() > with is_pmd_migration_entry() or adding thp_migration_supported() check > like Jerome did. > > Does this clarify your question? Not really. IIUC the code checks for the pmd. So even though is_migration_entry is a more generic check it should never return true for thp_migration_supported() == F because we simply never have those unless I am missing something. is_pmd_migration_entry is much more readable of course and I suspect it can save few cycles as well. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs