From: "Zi Yan" <zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu>
To: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
mhocko@suse.com, will.deacon@arm.com,
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/thp: Correctly differentiate between mapped THP and PMD migration entry
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 09:58:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7E8E6B14-D5C4-4A30-840D-A7AB046517FB@cs.rutgers.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1539057538-27446-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
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cc: Naoya Horiguchi (who proposed to use !_PAGE_PRESENT && !_PAGE_PSE for x86
PMD migration entry check)
On 8 Oct 2018, at 23:58, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> A normal mapped THP page at PMD level should be correctly differentiated
> from a PMD migration entry while walking the page table. A mapped THP would
> additionally check positive for pmd_present() along with pmd_trans_huge()
> as compared to a PMD migration entry. This just adds a new conditional test
> differentiating the two while walking the page table.
>
> Fixes: 616b8371539a6 ("mm: thp: enable thp migration in generic path")
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
> ---
> On X86, pmd_trans_huge() and is_pmd_migration_entry() are always mutually
> exclusive which makes the current conditional block work for both mapped
> and migration entries. This is not same with arm64 where pmd_trans_huge()
!pmd_present() && pmd_trans_huge() is used to represent THPs under splitting,
since _PAGE_PRESENT is cleared during THP splitting but _PAGE_PSE is not.
See the comment in pmd_present() for x86, in arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> returns positive for both mapped and migration entries. Could some one
> please explain why pmd_trans_huge() has to return false for migration
> entries which just install swap bits and its still a PMD ? Nonetheless
> pmd_present() seems to be a better check to distinguish between mapped
> and (non-mapped non-present) migration entries without any ambiguity.
If arm64 does it differently, I just wonder how THP splitting is handled
in arm64.
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Best Regards
Yan Zi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-09 13:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-09 3:58 Anshuman Khandual
2018-10-09 13:04 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-10-09 13:18 ` Will Deacon
2018-10-12 8:02 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-10-15 8:32 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2018-10-16 13:16 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-10-09 13:42 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-10-09 13:58 ` Zi Yan [this message]
2018-10-10 4:05 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-10-10 12:43 ` Zi Yan
2018-10-12 8:00 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-10-15 0:53 ` Zi Yan
2018-10-15 4:06 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-10-16 14:31 ` Zi Yan
2018-10-18 2:17 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2018-11-02 5:22 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-10-25 8:10 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-10-25 18:45 ` Zi Yan
2018-10-26 1:39 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-10-17 2:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-10-22 14:00 ` Zi Yan
2018-11-02 6:15 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-11-06 0:35 ` Will Deacon
2018-11-06 9:51 ` Anshuman Khandual
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