Re: [PATCH 2/2] [BUGFIX] pagemap: fix pfn calculation for hugepage

From: Naoya Horiguchi
Date: Fri Mar 19 2010 - 04:41:21 EST


On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 04:10:23PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:26:36 +0900
> Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > When we look into pagemap using page-types with option -p, the value
> > of pfn for hugepages looks wrong (see below.)
> > This is because pte was evaluated only once for one vma
> > although it should be updated for each hugepage. This patch fixes it.
> >
> > $ page-types -p 3277 -Nl -b huge
> > voffset offset len flags
> > 7f21e8a00 11e400 1 ___U___________H_G________________
> > 7f21e8a01 11e401 1ff ________________TG________________
> > 7f21e8c00 11e400 1 ___U___________H_G________________
> > 7f21e8c01 11e401 1ff ________________TG________________
> > ^^^
> > should not be the same
> >
> > With this patch applied:
> >
> > $ page-types -p 3386 -Nl -b huge
> > voffset offset len flags
> > 7fec7a600 112c00 1 ___UD__________H_G________________
> > 7fec7a601 112c01 1ff ________________TG________________
> > 7fec7a800 113200 1 ___UD__________H_G________________
> > 7fec7a801 113201 1ff ________________TG________________
> > ^^^
> > OK
> >
> Hmm. Is this bug ? To me, it's just shown in hugepage's pagesize, by design.
>
> _And_, Doesn't this patch change behavior of walk_pagemap_range() implicitly ?

No. It just fixes the bug of wrong offset calculation.

> No influence to other users ? (as memcontrol.c. in mmotm. Ask Nishimura-san ;)
>

I asked him for double-check.

>
> some nitpicks.
>
>
> > Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++------------------
> > include/linux/mm.h | 4 ++--
> > mm/pagewalk.c | 14 ++++----------
> > 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> > index 2a3ef17..cc14479 100644
> > --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> > +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> > @@ -662,31 +662,32 @@ static u64 huge_pte_to_pagemap_entry(pte_t pte, int offset)
> > return pme;
> > }
> >
> > -static int pagemap_hugetlb_range(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr,
> > +/* This function walks only within @vma */
> > +static int pagemap_hugetlb_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
> > unsigned long end, struct mm_walk *walk)
> > {
> > - struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> > + struct mm_struct *mm = walk->mm;
> > struct pagemapread *pm = walk->private;
> > struct hstate *hs = NULL;
> > int err = 0;
> > -
> > - vma = find_vma(walk->mm, addr);
> > - if (vma)
> > - hs = hstate_vma(vma);
> > + pte_t *pte = NULL;
> > +
> > + BUG_ON(!mm);
> > + BUG_ON(!vma || !is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma));
> > + BUG_ON(addr < vma->vm_start || addr >= vma->vm_end);
>
> This is my personal opinion, may not be popular.
>
> When you add BUG_ON(), please confirm "you have real concern about this."
> After reading this, code reader will take care of avoiding calling this
> function with above condition. yes.
>
> But, this function itself is only for pagemap_read() and it seems no
> other one will call this function externally in future.
> Above 3 BUG_ON will never happen because of simple logic around this.
> Then, it seems unnecessary noise to me.
>

OK. It sounds reasonable.

> If your changes in walk_page_range() causes concerns to add above BUG_ON()s,
> please avoid such changes.

There is no concern about it. I'll turn off BUG_ON()s.

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi
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