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b=fMdBeOSiJ+R+DDlmzWfQaNRVkYB4AdKxjnCwrzSTfZvFklThcSFNBhwWT1mTSLLrB nZRR5d/ANJ36zcmLQFzvtZccSB+Q5k5FMZrmlgsMiff8EQM+oAYDjwsLIM1R8/UI59 04jthtIbMKjOD+D3I5sQBHHu/3aTxFHXS0LH8D2vIiuhCmkC0X8mbW57TqLkmfqHSC bIe11JJfkz6y+Nq/99se+nbn/p0aUKOsAvO5YtGpvpKbOmaRquDGRiF6kCKApGMB6Q +qKVw+GK6rVfp+AR0BaFxfUz2WL60BkzGmfsJOHBQP4Pf097/K8sgZS1squrZWn+Ci auf+s4ZBZjksw== Message-ID: <5de4d58d-649f-4eb3-81dd-8313d17a9725@kernel.org> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 12:22:15 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [RFC 00/12] mm: PUD (1GB) THP implementation To: Zi Yan , Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Rik van Riel , Usama Arif , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org, shakeel.butt@linux.dev, kas@kernel.org, baohua@kernel.org, dev.jain@arm.com, baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com, npache@redhat.com, Liam.Howlett@oracle.com, ryan.roberts@arm.com, vbabka@suse.cz, lance.yang@linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com, Frank van der Linden References: <20260202005451.774496-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com> <7d246914-6077-4dc1-bbcf-8dabbe6183e7@lucifer.local> <2B979847-CED0-41AE-AEB1-BEFB267B1E14@nvidia.com> From: "David Hildenbrand (arm)" Content-Language: en-US Autocrypt: addr=david@kernel.org; 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There's plenty of things that >> were considered 'temporary' upstream that became rather permanent :) >> >> Maybe we can't cover all corner-cases, but we need to make sure whatever we do >> send upstream is maintainable, conceptually sensible and doesn't paint us into >> any corners, etc. >> >>> >>> With CMA balancing, it would be possibly to just >>> have half (or even more) of system memory for >>> movable allocations only, which would make it possible >>> to allocate 1GB huge pages dynamically. >> >> Could you expand on that? > > I also would like to hear David’s opinion on using CMA for 1GB THP. > He did not like it[1] when I posted my patch back in 2020, but it has > been more than 5 years. :) Hehe, not particularly excited about that. We really have to avoid short-term hacks by any means. We have enough of that in THP land already. We talked about challenges in the past like: * Controlling who gets to allocate them. * Having a reasonable swap/migration mechanism * Reliably allocating them without hacks, while being future-proof * Long-term pinning them when they are actually on ZONE_MOVABLE or CMA (the latter could be made working but requires thought) I agree with Lorenzo that this RFC is a bit surprising, because I assume none of the real challenges were tackled. Having that said, it will take me some time to come back to this RFC here, other stuff that piled up is more urgent and more important. But I'll note that we really have to cleanup the THP mess before we add more stuff on it. For example, I still wonder whether we can just stop pre-allocating page tables for THPs and instead let code fail+retry in case we cannot remap the page. I wanted to look into the details a long time ago but never got to it. Avoiding that would make the remapping much easier; and we should then remap from PUD->PMD->PTEs. Implementing 1 GiB support for shmem might be a reasonable first step, before we start digging into the anonymous memory land with all these nasty things involved. -- Cheers, David