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* [PATCH v5 0/5] mm/hugetlb: Early cow on fork, and a few cleanups
@ 2021-02-17 23:35 Peter Xu
  2021-02-17 23:35 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] hugetlb: Dedup the code to add a new file_region Peter Xu
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  0 siblings, 6 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Peter Xu @ 2021-02-17 23:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-mm, linux-kernel
  Cc: Gal Pressman, Matthew Wilcox, Wei Zhang, peterx, Mike Kravetz,
	Mike Rapoport, Christoph Hellwig, Andrew Morton, Linus Torvalds,
	David Gibson, Jason Gunthorpe, Jann Horn, Kirill Tkhai,
	Kirill Shutemov, Miaohe Lin, Andrea Arcangeli, Jan Kara

v5:
- patch 4: change "int cow" into "bool cow"
- collect r-bs for Jason

v4:
- add r-b for Mike on the last patch, add some more commit message explains
  that why we don't need wr-protect trick
- fix one warning of unused var in copy_present_page() [Gal]

v3:
- rebase to linux-next/akpm, switch to the new HPAGE helpers [MikeK]
- correct error check for alloc_huge_page(); test it this time to make sure
  fork() fails gracefully when overcommit [MikeK]
- move page copy out of pgtable lock: this changed quite a bit of the logic in
  the last patch, prealloc is dropped since I found it easier to understand
  without looping at all [MikeK]

v2:
- pass in 1 to alloc_huge_page() last param [Mike]
- reduce comment, unify the comment in one place [Linus]
- add r-bs for Mike and Miaohe

---- original cover letter ----

As reported by Gal [1], we still miss the code clip to handle early cow for
hugetlb case, which is true.  Again, it still feels odd to fork() after using a
few huge pages, especially if they're privately mapped to me..  However I do
agree with Gal and Jason in that we should still have that since that'll
complete the early cow on fork effort at least, and it'll still fix issues
where buffers are not well under control and not easy to apply MADV_DONTFORK.

The first two patches (1-2) are some cleanups I noticed when reading into the
hugetlb reserve map code.  I think it's good to have but they're not necessary
for fixing the fork issue.

The last two patches (3-4) is the real fix.

I tested this with a fork() after some vfio-pci assignment, so I'm pretty sure
the page copy path could trigger well (page will be accounted right after the
fork()), but I didn't do data check since the card I assigned is some random
nic.  Gal, please feel free to try this if you have better way to verify the
series.

  https://github.com/xzpeter/linux/tree/fork-cow-pin-huge

Please review, thanks!

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/27564187-4a08-f187-5a84-3df50009f6ca@amazon.com/

Peter Xu (5):
  hugetlb: Dedup the code to add a new file_region
  hugetlg: Break earlier in add_reservation_in_range() when we can
  mm: Introduce page_needs_cow_for_dma() for deciding whether cow
  mm: Use is_cow_mapping() across tree where proper
  hugetlb: Do early cow when page pinned on src mm

 drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_page_dirty.c |   4 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_ttm_glue.c   |   2 +-
 fs/proc/task_mmu.c                         |   2 -
 include/linux/mm.h                         |  21 ++++
 mm/huge_memory.c                           |   8 +-
 mm/hugetlb.c                               | 123 +++++++++++++++------
 mm/internal.h                              |   5 -
 mm/memory.c                                |   8 +-
 8 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)

-- 
2.26.2




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2021-03-02  0:28   ` Andrew Morton
2021-03-02  0:30     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-02  0:59       ` Zhang, Wei
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