Re: [PATCH -mm -v4 08/21] mm, THP, swap: Support to read a huge swap cluster for swapin a THP

From: "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
To: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
	Zi Yan <zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm -v4 08/21] mm, THP, swap: Support to read a huge swap cluster for swapin a THP
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2018 10:24:46 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lhfvitt.fsf@yhuang-dev.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180704001235.w7xexi3jp6ostas5@ca-dmjordan1.us.oracle.com> (Daniel Jordan's message of "Tue, 3 Jul 2018 17:12:35 -0700")

Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 11:51:38AM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
>> @@ -411,14 +414,32 @@ struct page *__read_swap_cache_async(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> ...
>> +			if (thp_swap_supported() && huge_cluster) {
>> +				gfp_t gfp = alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask(vma);
>> +
>> +				new_page = alloc_hugepage_vma(gfp, vma,
>> +						addr, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
>
> When allocating a huge page, we ignore the gfp_mask argument.
>
> That doesn't matter right now since AFAICT we're not losing any flags: gfp_mask
> from existing callers of __read_swap_cache_async seems to always be a subset of
> GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE and alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask always returns a
> superset of that.
>
> But maybe we should warn here in case we end up violating a restriction from a
> future caller.  Something like this?:
>
>> +				gfp_t gfp = alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask(vma);
>                                 VM_WARN_ONCE((gfp | gfp_mask) != gfp,
> 					     "ignoring gfp_mask bits");

This looks good!  Thanks!  Will add this.

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying