RE: [PATCH 03/12] mm, thp, tmpfs: handle huge page cases inshmem_getpage_gfp

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Tue Oct 15 2013 - 06:29:23 EST


Ning Qu wrote:
> We don't support huge page when page is moved from page cache to swap.
> So in this function, we enable huge page handling in two case:
>
> 1) when a huge page is found in the page cache,
> 2) or we need to alloc a huge page for page cache
>
> We have to refactor all the calls to shmem_getpages to simplify the job
> of caller. Right now shmem_getpage does:
>
> 1) simply request a page, default as a small page
> 2) or caller specify a flag to request either a huge page or a small page,
> then leave the caller to decide how to use it
>
> Signed-off-by: Ning Qu <quning@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/shmem.c | 139 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
> 1 file changed, 108 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> index 447bd14..8fe17dd 100644
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -115,15 +115,43 @@ static unsigned long shmem_default_max_inodes(void)
> static bool shmem_should_replace_page(struct page *page, gfp_t gfp);
> static int shmem_replace_page(struct page **pagep, gfp_t gfp,
> struct shmem_inode_info *info, pgoff_t index);
> +
> static int shmem_getpage_gfp(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
> - struct page **pagep, enum sgp_type sgp, gfp_t gfp, int *fault_type);
> + struct page **pagep, enum sgp_type sgp, gfp_t gfp, int flags,
> + int *fault_type);
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PAGECACHE
> +static inline int shmem_getpage(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
> + struct page **pagep, enum sgp_type sgp, gfp_t gfp, int flags,
> + int *fault_type)
> +{
> + int ret = 0;
> + struct page *page = NULL;
>
> + if ((flags & AOP_FLAG_TRANSHUGE) &&
> + mapping_can_have_hugepages(inode->i_mapping)) {

I don't think we need ifdef here. mapping_can_have_hugepages() will be 0
compile-time, if CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PAGECACHE is not defined and
compiler should optimize out thp case.

> @@ -1298,27 +1348,37 @@ repeat:
> error = -ENOSPC;
> goto unacct;
> }
> - percpu_counter_inc(&sbinfo->used_blocks);
> }
>
> - page = shmem_alloc_page(gfp, info, index);
> + if (must_use_thp) {
> + page = shmem_alloc_hugepage(gfp, info, index);
> + if (page) {
> + count_vm_event(THP_WRITE_ALLOC);
> + nr = hpagecache_nr_pages(page);

nr = hpagecache_nr_pages(page) can be moved below if (must_use_thp).
hpagecache_nr_pages(page) evaluates to 0 for small pages.


--
Kirill A. Shutemov
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