Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: free zapped tail pages when splitting isolated thp

From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>,
	Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Shuang Zhai <zhais@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: free zapped tail pages when splitting isolated thp
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 17:22:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210804142257.tsgzpfc3zq7um7iu@box.shutemov.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210731063938.1391602-3-yuzhao@google.com>

On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 12:39:37AM -0600, Yu Zhao wrote:
> @@ -2506,6 +2508,25 @@ static void __split_huge_page(struct page *page, struct list_head *list,
>  			continue;
>  		unlock_page(subpage);
>  
> +		/*
> +		 * If a tail page has only two references left, one inherited
> +		 * from the isolation of its head and the other from
> +		 * lru_add_page_tail() which we are about to drop, it means this
> +		 * tail page was concurrently zapped. Then we can safely free it
> +		 * and save page reclaim or migration the trouble of trying it.
> +		 */
> +		if (list && page_ref_freeze(subpage, 2)) {
> +			VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(subpage), subpage);
> +			VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageCompound(subpage), subpage);
> +			VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_mapped(subpage), subpage);
> +
> +			ClearPageActive(subpage);
> +			ClearPageUnevictable(subpage);

Why touch PG_Active/PG_Unevictable?

> +			list_move(&subpage->lru, &pages_to_free);
> +			nr_pages_to_free++;
> +			continue;
> +		}
> +

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov