Re: [RFC v4 PATCH 6/9] mm/hugetlb: alloc_huge_page handle areas hole punched by fallocate

From: Naoya Horiguchi
Date: Mon Jun 15 2015 - 02:36:31 EST


On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 02:01:37PM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> Areas hole punched by fallocate will not have entries in the
> region/reserve map. However, shared mappings with min_size subpool
> reservations may still have reserved pages. alloc_huge_page needs
> to handle this special case and do the proper accounting.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/hugetlb.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index ecbaffe..9c295c9 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -692,19 +692,9 @@ static int vma_has_reserves(struct vm_area_struct *vma, long chg)
> return 0;
> }
>
> - if (vma->vm_flags & VM_MAYSHARE) {
> - /*
> - * We know VM_NORESERVE is not set. Therefore, there SHOULD
> - * be a region map for all pages. The only situation where
> - * there is no region map is if a hole was punched via
> - * fallocate. In this case, there really are no reverves to
> - * use. This situation is indicated if chg != 0.
> - */
> - if (chg)
> - return 0;
> - else
> - return 1;
> - }
> + /* Shared mappings always use reserves */
> + if (vma->vm_flags & VM_MAYSHARE)
> + return 1;

This change completely reverts 5/9, so can you omit 5/9?

>
> /*
> * Only the process that called mmap() has reserves for
> @@ -1601,6 +1591,7 @@ static struct page *alloc_huge_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> struct hstate *h = hstate_vma(vma);
> struct page *page;
> long chg, commit;
> + long gbl_chg;
> int ret, idx;
> struct hugetlb_cgroup *h_cg;
>
> @@ -1608,24 +1599,39 @@ static struct page *alloc_huge_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> /*
> * Processes that did not create the mapping will have no
> * reserves and will not have accounted against subpool
> - * limit. Check that the subpool limit can be made before
> - * satisfying the allocation MAP_NORESERVE mappings may also
> - * need pages and subpool limit allocated allocated if no reserve
> - * mapping overlaps.
> + * limit. Check that the subpool limit will not be exceeded
> + * before performing the allocation. Allocations for
> + * MAP_NORESERVE mappings also need to be checked against
> + * any subpool limit.
> + *
> + * NOTE: Shared mappings with holes punched via fallocate
> + * may still have reservations, even without entries in the
> + * reserve map as indicated by vma_needs_reservation. This
> + * would be the case if hugepage_subpool_get_pages returns
> + * zero to indicate no changes to the global reservation count
> + * are necessary. In this case, pass the output of
> + * hugepage_subpool_get_pages (zero) to dequeue_huge_page_vma
> + * so that the page is not counted against the global limit.
> + * For MAP_NORESERVE mappings always pass the output of
> + * vma_needs_reservation. For race detection and error cleanup
> + * use output of vma_needs_reservation as well.
> */
> - chg = vma_needs_reservation(h, vma, addr);
> + chg = gbl_chg = vma_needs_reservation(h, vma, addr);
> if (chg < 0)
> return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> - if (chg || avoid_reserve)
> - if (hugepage_subpool_get_pages(spool, 1) < 0)
> + if (chg || avoid_reserve) {
> + gbl_chg = hugepage_subpool_get_pages(spool, 1);
> + if (gbl_chg < 0)
> return ERR_PTR(-ENOSPC);
> + }
>
> ret = hugetlb_cgroup_charge_cgroup(idx, pages_per_huge_page(h), &h_cg);
> if (ret)
> goto out_subpool_put;
>
> spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
> - page = dequeue_huge_page_vma(h, vma, addr, avoid_reserve, chg);
> + page = dequeue_huge_page_vma(h, vma, addr, avoid_reserve,
> + avoid_reserve ? chg : gbl_chg);

You use chg or gbl_chg depending on avoid_reserve here, and below this line
there's code like below

commit = vma_commit_reservation(h, vma, addr);
if (unlikely(chg > commit)) {
...
}

This also need to be changed to use chg or gbl_chg depending on avoid_reserve?

# I feel that this reserve-handling code in alloc_huge_page() is too complicated
# and hard to understand, so some cleanup like separating reserve parts into
# other new routine(s) might be helpful...

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi--
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