Re: [PATCH v5 09/11] mm: mempolicy: mbind and migrate_pages support thp migration

From: Anshuman Khandual
Date: Fri Apr 21 2017 - 04:25:00 EST


On 04/21/2017 02:17 AM, Zi Yan wrote:
> From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch enables thp migration for mbind(2) and migrate_pages(2).
>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> ChangeLog v1 -> v2:
> - support pte-mapped and doubly-mapped thp
> ---
> mm/mempolicy.c | 108 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> 1 file changed, 79 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

Snip

> @@ -981,7 +1012,17 @@ static struct page *new_node_page(struct page *page, unsigned long node, int **x
> if (PageHuge(page))
> return alloc_huge_page_node(page_hstate(compound_head(page)),
> node);
> - else
> + else if (thp_migration_supported() && PageTransHuge(page)) {
> + struct page *thp;
> +
> + thp = alloc_pages_node(node,
> + (GFP_TRANSHUGE | __GFP_THISNODE) & ~__GFP_RECLAIM,
> + HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
> + if (!thp)
> + return NULL;
> + prep_transhuge_page(thp);
> + return thp;
> + } else
> return __alloc_pages_node(node, GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE |
> __GFP_THISNODE, 0);
> }
> @@ -1147,6 +1188,15 @@ static struct page *new_page(struct page *page, unsigned long start, int **x)
> if (PageHuge(page)) {
> BUG_ON(!vma);
> return alloc_huge_page_noerr(vma, address, 1);
> + } else if (thp_migration_supported() && PageTransHuge(page)) {
> + struct page *thp;
> +
> + thp = alloc_hugepage_vma(GFP_TRANSHUGE, vma, address,
> + HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
> + if (!thp)
> + return NULL;
> + prep_transhuge_page(thp);
> + return thp;

GFP flags in both these new page allocation functions should be the same.
Does alloc_hugepage_vma() will eventually call page allocation with the
following flags.

(GFP_TRANSHUGE | __GFP_THISNODE) & ~__GFP_RECLAIM