RE: [PATCH v6 2/2] mm: fix the handling Non-LRU pages returned by follow_page

["Wang, Haiyue" <haiyue.wang@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2022 18:07
> To: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>; Wang, Haiyue <haiyue.wang@intel.com>; linux-mm@kvack.org;
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org; apopple@nvidia.com; Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>;
> songmuchun@bytedance.com; naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev; alex.sierra@amd.com; Felix Kuehling
> <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] mm: fix the handling Non-LRU pages returned by follow_page
> 
> On 17.08.22 04:34, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> > On 2022/8/16 10:21, Haiyue Wang wrote:
> >> The handling Non-LRU pages returned by follow_page() jumps directly, it
> >> doesn't call put_page() to handle the reference count, since 'FOLL_GET'
> >> flag for follow_page() has get_page() called. Fix the zone device page
> >> check by handling the page reference count correctly before returning.
> >>
> >> And as David reviewed, "device pages are never PageKsm pages". Drop this
> >> zone device page check for break_ksm().
> >>
> >> Fixes: 3218f8712d6b ("mm: handling Non-LRU pages returned by vm_normal_pages")
> >> Signed-off-by: Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang@intel.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com>
> >
> > Thanks for your fixing. LGTM with one nit below. But I have no strong opinion on it.
> > So with or without fixing below nit:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
> >
> >> ---
> >>  mm/huge_memory.c |  4 ++--
> >>  mm/ksm.c         | 12 +++++++++---
> >>  mm/migrate.c     | 19 ++++++++++++-------
> >>  3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> >> index 8a7c1b344abe..b2ba17c3dcd7 100644
> >> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> >> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> >> @@ -2963,10 +2963,10 @@ static int split_huge_pages_pid(int pid, unsigned long vaddr_start,
> >>  		/* FOLL_DUMP to ignore special (like zero) pages */
> >>  		page = follow_page(vma, addr, FOLL_GET | FOLL_DUMP);
> >>
> >> -		if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(page) || is_zone_device_page(page))
> >> +		if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(page))
> >>  			continue;
> >>
> >> -		if (!is_transparent_hugepage(page))
> >> +		if (is_zone_device_page(page) || !is_transparent_hugepage(page))
> >
> > !is_transparent_hugepage should already do the work here? IIRC, zone_device_page can't be
> > a transhuge page anyway. And only transparent_hugepage is cared here.
> 
> I agree.

OK, will remove it in next version.

> 
> Can we avoid sending a new version of a patch series as reply to another
> patch series (previous version)?

Don't use '--in-reply-to=' when running 'git send-email' ? 

> 
> 
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> 
> --
> Thanks,
> 
> David / dhildenb