From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Zi Yan <zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: thp: fix transparent_hugepage/defrag = madvise || always
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:35:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180829143545.GY10223@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180829142816.GX10223@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Wed 29-08-18 16:28:16, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 29-08-18 09:28:21, Zi Yan wrote:
> [...]
> > This patch triggers WARN_ON_ONCE() in policy_node() when MPOL_BIND is used and THP is on.
> > Should this WARN_ON_ONCE be removed?
> >
> >
> > /*
> > * __GFP_THISNODE shouldn't even be used with the bind policy
> > * because we might easily break the expectation to stay on the
> > * requested node and not break the policy.
> > */
> > WARN_ON_ONCE(policy->mode == MPOL_BIND && (gfp & __GFP_THISNODE));
>
> This is really interesting. It seems to be me who added this warning but
> I cannot simply make any sense of it. Let me try to dig some more.
OK, I get it now. The warning seems to be incomplete. It is right to
complain when __GFP_THISNODE disagrees with MPOL_BIND policy but that is
not what we check here. Does this heal the warning?
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index da858f794eb6..7bb9354b1e4c 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1728,7 +1728,10 @@ static int policy_node(gfp_t gfp, struct mempolicy *policy,
* because we might easily break the expectation to stay on the
* requested node and not break the policy.
*/
- WARN_ON_ONCE(policy->mode == MPOL_BIND && (gfp & __GFP_THISNODE));
+ if (policy->mode == MPOL_BIND && (gfp & __GFP_THISNODE)) {
+ nodemask_t *nmask = policy_nodemask(gfp, policy);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!node_isset(nd, *nmask));
+ }
}
return nd;
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-29 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-20 3:22 [PATCH 0/2] fix for "pathological THP behavior" Andrea Arcangeli
2018-08-20 3:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: thp: consolidate policy_nodemask call Andrea Arcangeli
2018-08-20 3:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: thp: fix transparent_hugepage/defrag = madvise || always Andrea Arcangeli
2018-08-20 3:26 ` [PATCH 0/1] fix for "pathological THP behavior" v2 Andrea Arcangeli
2018-08-20 3:26 ` [PATCH 1/1] mm: thp: fix transparent_hugepage/defrag = madvise || always Andrea Arcangeli
2018-08-20 12:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Zi Yan
2018-08-20 15:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-08-21 11:50 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-21 21:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-08-22 9:02 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-22 11:07 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-22 14:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-08-22 14:45 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-22 15:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-08-23 10:50 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-22 15:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-08-23 10:52 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-28 7:53 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-28 8:18 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-28 8:54 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2018-08-29 11:11 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
[not found] ` <D5F4A33C-0A37-495C-9468-D6866A862097@cs.rutgers.edu>
2018-08-29 14:28 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-29 14:35 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-08-29 15:22 ` Zi Yan
2018-08-29 15:47 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-29 16:06 ` Zi Yan
2018-08-29 16:25 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-29 19:24 ` [PATCH] mm, thp: relax __GFP_THISNODE for MADV_HUGEPAGE mappings Michal Hocko
2018-08-29 22:54 ` Zi Yan
2018-08-30 7:00 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-30 13:22 ` Zi Yan
2018-08-30 13:45 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-30 14:02 ` Zi Yan
2018-08-30 16:19 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2018-08-30 16:40 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-05 3:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-09-05 7:08 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-06 11:10 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-09-06 11:16 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-09-06 11:25 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-06 12:35 ` Zi Yan
2018-09-06 10:59 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-09-06 11:17 ` Zi Yan
2018-08-30 6:47 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-06 11:18 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-09-06 11:27 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-12 17:29 ` Mel Gorman
2018-09-17 6:11 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-17 7:04 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2018-09-17 9:32 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2018-09-17 11:27 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-20 11:58 ` [PATCH 0/2] fix for "pathological THP behavior" Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-08-20 15:19 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-08-21 15:30 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-08-21 17:26 ` David Rientjes
2018-08-21 22:18 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-08-21 22:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-08-22 9:24 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-22 15:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-08-20 19:06 ` Yang Shi
2018-08-20 23:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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