From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f41.google.com (mail-wm0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5298E6B0005 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 11:43:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-wm0-f41.google.com with SMTP id l68so31945653wml.0 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 08:43:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id dd9si10841245wjc.207.2016.03.17.08.43.52 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 17 Mar 2016 08:43:53 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test References: <56DD38E7.3050107@huawei.com> <56DDCB86.4030709@redhat.com> <56DE30CB.7020207@huawei.com> <56DF7B28.9060108@huawei.com> <56E2FB5C.1040602@suse.cz> <20160314064925.GA27587@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE> <56E662E8.700@suse.cz> <20160314071803.GA28094@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE> <56E92AFC.9050208@huawei.com> <20160317065426.GA10315@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE> <56EA77BC.2090702@huawei.com> From: Vlastimil Babka Message-ID: <56EAD0B4.2060807@suse.cz> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 16:43:48 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56EA77BC.2090702@huawei.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Hanjun Guo , Joonsoo Kim Cc: "Leizhen (ThunderTown)" , Laura Abbott , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Andrew Morton , Sasha Levin , Laura Abbott , qiuxishi , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Arnd Bergmann , dingtinahong , chenjie6@huawei.com, "linux-mm@kvack.org" On 03/17/2016 10:24 AM, Hanjun Guo wrote: > On 2016/3/17 14:54, Joonsoo Kim wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 05:44:28PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote: >>> On 2016/3/14 15:18, Joonsoo Kim wrote: >>>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 08:06:16AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >>>>> On 03/14/2016 07:49 AM, Joonsoo Kim wrote: >>>>>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 06:07:40PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >>>>>>> On 03/11/2016 04:00 PM, Joonsoo Kim wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> How about something like this? Just and idea, probably buggy (off-by-one etc.). >>>>>>> Should keep away cost from >>>>>> relatively fewer >pageblock_order iterations. >>>>>> Hmm... I tested this and found that it's code size is a little bit >>>>>> larger than mine. I'm not sure why this happens exactly but I guess it would be >>>>>> related to compiler optimization. In this case, I'm in favor of my >>>>>> implementation because it looks like well abstraction. It adds one >>>>>> unlikely branch to the merge loop but compiler would optimize it to >>>>>> check it once. >>>>> I would be surprised if compiler optimized that to check it once, as >>>>> order increases with each loop iteration. But maybe it's smart >>>>> enough to do something like I did by hand? Guess I'll check the >>>>> disassembly. >>>> Okay. I used following slightly optimized version and I need to >>>> add 'max_order = min_t(unsigned int, MAX_ORDER, pageblock_order + 1)' >>>> to yours. Please consider it, too. >>> Hmm, this one is not work, I still can see the bug is there after applying >>> this patch, did I miss something? >> I may find that there is a bug which was introduced by me some time >> ago. Could you test following change in __free_one_page() on top of >> Vlastimil's patch? >> >> -page_idx = pfn & ((1 << max_order) - 1); >> +page_idx = pfn & ((1 << MAX_ORDER) - 1); > > I tested Vlastimil's patch + your change with stress for more than half hour, the bug > I reported is gone :) Oh, ok, will try to send proper patch, once I figure out what to write in the changelog :) -- 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: email@kvack.org