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

From: Miaohe Lin
Date: Tue Aug 16 2022 - 22:34:19 EST


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@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@xxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> 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.

Thanks,
Miaohe Lin