Re: [PATCH 2/2] hugetlbfs: add swap entry check infollow_hugetlb_page()

From: Naoya Horiguchi
Date: Tue Apr 02 2013 - 10:37:34 EST


On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 11:24:41AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 29-03-13 13:23:38, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 02:57:30PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Thu 28-03-13 11:42:38, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > @@ -2968,7 +2968,8 @@ long follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> > > > * first, for the page indexing below to work.
> > > > */
> > > > pte = huge_pte_offset(mm, vaddr & huge_page_mask(h));
> > > > - absent = !pte || huge_pte_none(huge_ptep_get(pte));
> > > > + absent = !pte || huge_pte_none(huge_ptep_get(pte)) ||
> > > > + is_swap_pte(huge_ptep_get(pte));
> > >
> > > is_swap_pte doesn't seem right. Shouldn't you use is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned
> > > instead?
> >
> > I tested only hwpoisoned hugepage, but the same can happen for hugepages
> > under migration. So I intended to filter out all types of swap entries.
> > The local variable 'absent' seems to mean whether data on the address
> > is immediately available, so swap type entry isn't included in it.
>
> OK, I didn't consider huge pages under migration and I was merely worried
> that is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned sounds more appropriate than
> is_swap_pte.
>
> Could you add a comment which would clarify that is_swap_pte covers both
> migration and hwpoison pages, please? Something like:
>
> /*
> * is_swap_pte test covers both is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned
> * and hugepages under migration in which case
> * hugetlb_fault waits for the migration and bails out
> * properly for HWPosined pages.
> */
> absent = !pte || huge_pte_none(huge_ptep_get(pte)) ||
> is_swap_pte(huge_ptep_get(pte));

OK, I'll add this.

> Other than that feel free to add
> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>

Thank you!
Naoya
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