From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 3/8] mm: Move set/get_pcppage_migratetype to mmzone.h
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 11:12:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <576de40e00083206bdb0c2e9f04fe34dd406e6b3.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cca53aa628a25ead13a2f71060b56bde66e19d05.camel@linux.intel.com>
On Mon, 2019-09-09 at 11:01 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-09-09 at 12:56 +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 10:25:28AM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> > > From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
> > >
> > > In order to support page reporting it will be necessary to store and
> > > retrieve the migratetype of a page. To enable that I am moving the set and
> > > get operations for pcppage_migratetype into the mm/internal.h header so
> > > that they can be used outside of the page_alloc.c file.
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
> >
> > I'm not sure that it's great idea to export this functionality beyond
> > mm/page_alloc.c without any additional safeguards. How would we avoid to
> > messing with ->index when the page is not in the right state of its
> > life-cycle. Can we add some VM_BUG_ON()s here?
>
> I am not sure what we would need to check on though. There are essentially
> 2 cases where we are using this. The first is the percpu page lists so the
> value is set either as a result of __rmqueue_smallest or
> free_unref_page_prepare. The second one which hasn't been added yet is for
> the Reported pages case which I add with patch 6.
>
> When I use it for page reporting I am essentially using the Reported flag
> to identify what pages in the buddy list will have this value set versus
> those that may not. I didn't explicitly define it that way, but that is
> how I am using it so that the value cannot be trusted unless the Reported
> flag is set.
I guess the alternative would be to just treat the ->index value as the
index within the boundary array, and not use the per-cpu list functions.
Doing that might make things a bit more clear since all we are really
doing is storing the index into the boundary list the page is contained
in. I could probably combine the value of order and migratetype and save
myself a few cycles in the process by just saving the index into the array
directly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-09 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-07 17:25 [PATCH v9 0/8] stg mail -e --version=v9 \ Alexander Duyck
2019-09-07 17:25 ` [PATCH v9 1/8] mm: Add per-cpu logic to page shuffling Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 8:14 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-09 15:11 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-10 12:11 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-10 22:14 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-10 22:11 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 9:07 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-09 15:12 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-07 17:25 ` [PATCH v9 2/8] mm: Adjust shuffle code to allow for future coalescing Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 8:19 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-09 9:47 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-09 15:22 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 15:35 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-09 15:37 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 16:43 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 17:00 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-10 12:20 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-10 14:48 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-07 17:25 ` [PATCH v9 3/8] mm: Move set/get_pcppage_migratetype to mmzone.h Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 8:22 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-09 9:56 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-09 18:01 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 18:12 ` Alexander Duyck [this message]
2019-09-10 12:23 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-10 14:46 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-10 17:45 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-10 20:26 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-07 17:25 ` [PATCH v9 4/8] mm: Use zone and order instead of free area in free_list manipulators Alexander Duyck
2019-09-10 12:27 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-07 17:25 ` [PATCH v9 5/8] arm64: Move hugetlb related definitions out of pgtable.h to page-defs.h Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 8:52 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-09 15:27 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-17 17:48 ` Will Deacon
2019-09-17 20:07 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-07 17:25 ` [PATCH v9 6/8] mm: Introduce Reported pages Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 14:42 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-09 16:25 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 16:33 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-07 17:26 ` [PATCH v9 7/8] virtio-balloon: Pull page poisoning config out of free page hinting Alexander Duyck
2019-09-09 8:59 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-09 15:31 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-07 17:26 ` [PATCH v9 8/8] virtio-balloon: Add support for providing unused page reports to host Alexander Duyck
2019-09-07 17:34 ` [PATCH v9 0/8] mm / virtio: Provide support for unused page reporting Alexander Duyck
2019-09-10 12:42 ` [PATCH v9 0/8] stg mail -e --version=v9 \ Michal Hocko
2019-09-10 14:42 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-10 14:47 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-10 16:05 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-10 16:18 ` [virtio-dev] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-09-10 16:22 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 9:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-09-11 9:50 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-10 17:52 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-10 18:00 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-10 20:37 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-10 21:23 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-11 11:36 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-11 11:47 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 12:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-09-11 12:19 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-11 12:25 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-11 12:42 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 12:54 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-11 13:03 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 13:20 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-11 13:51 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-11 16:09 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-12 7:16 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-12 7:47 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-12 9:26 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-12 12:00 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-09-11 14:03 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-09-11 16:02 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 13:19 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-09-11 12:55 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-09-11 15:12 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-12 9:19 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-12 10:24 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-12 11:11 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-12 15:42 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-09-12 16:35 ` Mel Gorman
2019-09-12 17:48 ` Alexander Duyck
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