From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Huang,
Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>, Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
"Yin, Fengwei" <fengwei.yin@intel.com>,
Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>,
"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Rohan Puri <rohan.puri15@gmail.com>,
Mcgrof Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Adam Manzanares <a.manzanares@samsung.com>,
"Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] mm/compaction: add support for >0 order folio memory compaction.
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 21:46:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <28c47a9f-5ee4-425e-bd8d-bd251634534c@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <193E0D43-0084-48AA-91F5-8316A130ADC3@nvidia.com>
On 2/9/24 20:40, Zi Yan wrote:
> On 9 Feb 2024, at 14:36, Zi Yan wrote:
>
>> On 9 Feb 2024, at 11:37, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/2/24 17:15, Zi Yan wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> /*
>>>> @@ -1835,9 +1857,17 @@ static struct folio *compaction_alloc(struct folio *src, unsigned long data)
>>>> static void compaction_free(struct folio *dst, unsigned long data)
>>>> {
>>>> struct compact_control *cc = (struct compact_control *)data;
>>>> + int order = folio_order(dst);
>>>> + struct page *page = &dst->page;
>>>> +
>>>> + folio_set_count(dst, 0);
>>>
>>> We can't change refcount to 0 like this, after it was already set to 1 and
>>> somebody else might have done get_page_unless_zero(). You need to either
>>> put_page_testzero() and if it's false, consider the page lost, or leave it
>>> refcounted and adjust the code to handle both refcounted and non-refcounted
>>> pages on the lists (the first option is simpler and shouldn't be too bad).
>> Got it. Will fix it with the first option. Thanks.
>
> Do you think we should have a WARN or WARN_ONCE if we lose a page here?
No, no WARN, it all happens legitimately. It's only our compaction losing
the page - whoever would do the get_page_unless_zero() to inspect that page
would then have to put_page() which will free it back to page allocator.
> --
> Best Regards,
> Yan, Zi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-09 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-02 16:15 [PATCH v3 0/3] Enable >0 order folio memory compaction Zi Yan
2024-02-02 16:15 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] mm/compaction: enable compacting >0 order folios Zi Yan
2024-02-09 14:32 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-02-09 19:25 ` Zi Yan
2024-02-09 20:43 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-02-09 20:44 ` Zi Yan
2024-02-02 16:15 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] mm/compaction: add support for >0 order folio memory compaction Zi Yan
2024-02-09 16:37 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-02-09 19:36 ` Zi Yan
2024-02-09 19:40 ` Zi Yan
2024-02-09 20:46 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2024-02-09 20:47 ` Zi Yan
2024-02-09 21:58 ` Zi Yan
2024-02-02 16:15 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] mm/compaction: optimize >0 order folio compaction with free page split Zi Yan
2024-02-09 18:43 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-02-09 19:57 ` Zi Yan
2024-02-09 20:49 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-02-02 19:55 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Enable >0 order folio memory compaction Luis Chamberlain
2024-02-02 20:12 ` Zi Yan
2024-02-05 8:16 ` Baolin Wang
2024-02-05 14:18 ` Zi Yan
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