Re: [PATCH 08/18] mm, hugetlb: do hugepage_subpool_get_pages() whenavoid_reserve

From: Joonsoo Kim
Date: Wed Jul 31 2013 - 01:03:19 EST


On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 02:05:51PM -0400, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 02:31:59PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> > When we try to get a huge page with avoid_reserve, we don't consume
> > a reserved page. So it is treated like as non-reserve case.
>
> This patch will be completely overwritten with 9/18.
> So is this patch necessary?

Yes. This is a bug fix, so should be separate.
When we try to allocate with avoid_reserve, we don't use reserved page pool.
So, hugepage_subpool_get_pages() should be called and returned if failed.

If we merge these into one, we cannot know that there exists a bug.

Thanks.

>
> Naoya Horiguchi
>
> > Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> > index 1426c03..749629e 100644
> > --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> > +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> > @@ -1149,12 +1149,13 @@ static struct page *alloc_huge_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> > if (has_reserve < 0)
> > return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> >
> > - if (!has_reserve && (hugepage_subpool_get_pages(spool, 1) < 0))
> > + if ((!has_reserve || avoid_reserve)
> > + && (hugepage_subpool_get_pages(spool, 1) < 0))
> > return ERR_PTR(-ENOSPC);
> >
> > ret = hugetlb_cgroup_charge_cgroup(idx, pages_per_huge_page(h), &h_cg);
> > if (ret) {
> > - if (!has_reserve)
> > + if (!has_reserve || avoid_reserve)
> > hugepage_subpool_put_pages(spool, 1);
> > return ERR_PTR(-ENOSPC);
> > }
> > @@ -1167,7 +1168,7 @@ static struct page *alloc_huge_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> > hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_cgroup(idx,
> > pages_per_huge_page(h),
> > h_cg);
> > - if (!has_reserve)
> > + if (!has_reserve || avoid_reserve)
> > hugepage_subpool_put_pages(spool, 1);
> > return ERR_PTR(-ENOSPC);
> > }
> > --
> > 1.7.9.5
> >
>
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