Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] fs/proc/page: respect folio head-page flag placement

From: Kefeng Wang
Date: Sat Nov 11 2023 - 04:49:56 EST




On 2023/11/11 2:19, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 11:33:20AM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
kpageflags reads page-flags directly from the page, even when the
respective flag is only updated on the headpage of a folio.

Since most flags are stored in head flags, make k = folio->flags,
and add new p = page->flags used for per-page flags.

You'd do better to steal Greg's commit message.

Sure


Originally-from: Gregory Price <gregory.price@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>

@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ u64 stable_page_flags(struct page *page)
u |= kpf_copy_bit(k, KPF_MLOCKED, PG_mlocked);
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE
- u |= kpf_copy_bit(k, KPF_HWPOISON, PG_hwpoison);
+ u |= kpf_copy_bit(p, KPF_HWPOISON, PG_hwpoison);

This is correct.

@@ -211,13 +211,13 @@ u64 stable_page_flags(struct page *page)
u |= kpf_copy_bit(k, KPF_RESERVED, PG_reserved);
u |= kpf_copy_bit(k, KPF_MAPPEDTODISK, PG_mappedtodisk);
- u |= kpf_copy_bit(k, KPF_PRIVATE, PG_private);
- u |= kpf_copy_bit(k, KPF_PRIVATE_2, PG_private_2);
- u |= kpf_copy_bit(k, KPF_OWNER_PRIVATE, PG_owner_priv_1);
+ u |= kpf_copy_bit(p, KPF_PRIVATE, PG_private);
+ u |= kpf_copy_bit(p, KPF_PRIVATE_2, PG_private_2);
+ u |= kpf_copy_bit(p, KPF_OWNER_PRIVATE, PG_owner_priv_1);

This is not. PG_private is not, I believe, set on tail pages.
Ditto the other two. If you know differently ... ?

k = folio->flags, p = page->flags
as PG_private/private_2/owner_priv_1 use PF_ANY page policy,
so they should per-page check, confused...

See checked page flags,

PG_error PF_NO_TAIL
PG_dirty PF_HEAD
PG_uptodate PF_NO_TAIL
PG_writeback PF_NO_TAIL
PG_lru PF_HEAD
PG_referenced PF_HEAD
PG_active PF_HEAD
PG_reclaim PF_NO_TAIL
PG_swapbacked PF_NO_TAIL
PG_unevictable PF_HEAD
PG_mlocked PF_NO_TAIL
PG_hwpoison PF_ANY
PG_uncached PF_NO_COMPOUND
PG_reserved PF_NO_COMPOUND
PG_mappedtodisk PF_NO_TAIL
PG_private PF_ANY
PG_private_2 PF_ANY
PG_owner_priv_1 PF_ANY

above part has 4 types,

1) PF_HEAD - should use k

2) PF_ANY - should use p

3) PF_NO_TAIL
- PageXXX will check head page flags, so suppose to use k,
but here use bit check, I wonder it should use p?

4) PF_NO_COMPOUND
- should per-page check

#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_X
- u |= kpf_copy_bit(k, KPF_ARCH_2, PG_arch_2);
- u |= kpf_copy_bit(k, KPF_ARCH_3, PG_arch_3);
+ u |= kpf_copy_bit(p, KPF_ARCH_2, PG_arch_2);
+ u |= kpf_copy_bit(p, KPF_ARCH_3, PG_arch_3);
#endif

I also don't think this is correct, but there are many uses of
PG_arch* and I may have missed something.


And 3 arch page flags,

PG_arch_1
- PG_dcache_clean, from achetlb.rst, I think it is per-folio, use k

PG_arch_2
- only arm64 mte, PG_mte_tagged
PG_arch_3
- only arm64 mte, PG_mte_lock

the two PG_arch only used by arm64 mte, they are per-page flag, use p

Correct me if I am wrong, thanks.