From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
To: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm: rmap: Fix CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb issue when unmapping
Date: Sat, 7 May 2022 09:32:46 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <971cfb54-f5a6-921c-b0c5-195a5daed0fb@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f64f0d4f-f0fc-f07c-3c17-96f124da21e4@oracle.com>
On 5/7/2022 2:55 AM, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> On 4/29/22 01:14, Baolin Wang wrote:
>> On some architectures (like ARM64), it can support CONT-PTE/PMD size
>> hugetlb, which means it can support not only PMD/PUD size hugetlb:
>> 2M and 1G, but also CONT-PTE/PMD size: 64K and 32M if a 4K page
>> size specified.
>>
>> When unmapping a hugetlb page, we will get the relevant page table
>> entry by huge_pte_offset() only once to nuke it. This is correct
>> for PMD or PUD size hugetlb, since they always contain only one
>> pmd entry or pud entry in the page table.
>>
>> However this is incorrect for CONT-PTE and CONT-PMD size hugetlb,
>> since they can contain several continuous pte or pmd entry with
>> same page table attributes, so we will nuke only one pte or pmd
>> entry for this CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb page.
>>
>> And now we only use try_to_unmap() to unmap a poisoned hugetlb page,
>
> Since try_to_unmap can be called for non-hugetlb pages, perhaps the following
> is more accurate?
>
> try_to_unmap is only passed a hugetlb page in the case where the
> hugetlb page is poisoned.
Yes, will update in next version.
> It does concern me that this assumption is built into the code as
> pointed out in your discussion with Gerald. Should we perhaps add
> a VM_BUG_ON() to make sure the passed huge page is poisoned? This
> would be in the same 'if block' where we call
> adjust_range_if_pmd_sharing_possible.
Good point. Will do in next version. Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-07 1:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-29 8:14 [PATCH 0/3] Fix CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb issue when unmapping or migrating Baolin Wang
2022-04-29 8:14 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: change huge_ptep_clear_flush() to return the original pte Baolin Wang
2022-05-05 23:15 ` Mike Kravetz
2022-05-06 3:02 ` Baolin Wang
2022-04-29 8:14 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm: rmap: Fix CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb issue when migration Baolin Wang
2022-05-05 23:53 ` Mike Kravetz
2022-05-06 3:39 ` Baolin Wang
2022-05-06 17:56 ` Mike Kravetz
2022-05-07 2:33 ` Baolin Wang
2022-05-08 9:19 ` Baolin Wang
2022-04-29 8:14 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm: rmap: Fix CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb issue when unmapping Baolin Wang
2022-04-29 20:02 ` Gerald Schaefer
2022-04-30 3:22 ` Baolin Wang
2022-05-02 14:02 ` Gerald Schaefer
2022-05-03 2:19 ` Baolin Wang
2022-05-03 10:03 ` Gerald Schaefer
2022-05-03 13:33 ` Baolin Wang
2022-05-06 19:07 ` Mike Kravetz
2022-05-09 16:41 ` Peter Xu
2022-05-10 1:28 ` Baolin Wang
2022-05-06 18:55 ` Mike Kravetz
2022-05-07 1:32 ` Baolin Wang [this message]
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