From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>,
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>,
Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 32/36] thp: reintroduce split_huge_page()
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 14:28:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150622112800.GD7934@node.dhcp.inet.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55785B5E.3000306@suse.cz>
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 05:44:30PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 06/03/2015 07:06 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> >+static int __split_huge_page_tail(struct page *head, int tail,
> >+ struct lruvec *lruvec, struct list_head *list)
> >+{
> >+ int mapcount;
> >+ struct page *page_tail = head + tail;
> >+
> >+ mapcount = page_mapcount(page_tail);
>
> Isn't page_mapcount() unnecessarily heavyweight here? When you are splitting
> a page, it already should have zero compound_mapcount() and shouldn't be
> PageDoubleMap(), no? So you should care about page->_mapcount only? Sure,
> splitting THP is not a hotpath, but when done 512 times per split, it could
> make some difference in the split's latency.
Okay, replaced with direct atomic_read().
> >+ VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(atomic_read(&page_tail->_count) != 0, page_tail);
> >+
> >+ /*
> >+ * tail_page->_count is zero and not changing from under us. But
> >+ * get_page_unless_zero() may be running from under us on the
> >+ * tail_page. If we used atomic_set() below instead of atomic_add(), we
> >+ * would then run atomic_set() concurrently with
> >+ * get_page_unless_zero(), and atomic_set() is implemented in C not
> >+ * using locked ops. spin_unlock on x86 sometime uses locked ops
> >+ * because of PPro errata 66, 92, so unless somebody can guarantee
> >+ * atomic_set() here would be safe on all archs (and not only on x86),
> >+ * it's safer to use atomic_add().
>
> I would be surprised if this was the first place to use atomic_set() with
> potential concurrent atomic_add(). Shouldn't atomic_*() API guarantee that
> this works?
I don't have much insight on the issue. This part is carried over from
pre-rework split_huge_page().
>
> >+ */
> >+ atomic_add(page_mapcount(page_tail) + 1, &page_tail->_count);
>
> You already have the value in mapcount variable, so why read it again.
Fixed.
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-03 17:05 [PATCHv6 00/36] THP refcounting redesign Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 01/36] mm, proc: adjust PSS calculation Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-09 12:29 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-06-22 10:02 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 02/36] rmap: add argument to charge compound page Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 03/36] memcg: adjust to support new THP refcounting Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 04/36] mm, thp: adjust conditions when we can reuse the page on WP fault Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 05/36] mm: adjust FOLL_SPLIT for new refcounting Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 06/36] mm: handle PTE-mapped tail pages in gerneric fast gup implementaiton Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 07/36] thp, mlock: do not allow huge pages in mlocked area Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 08/36] khugepaged: ignore pmd tables with THP mapped with ptes Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 09/36] thp: rename split_huge_page_pmd() to split_huge_pmd() Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 10/36] mm, vmstats: new THP splitting event Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 11/36] mm: temporally mark THP broken Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 12/36] thp: drop all split_huge_page()-related code Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 13/36] mm: drop tail page refcounting Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-09 13:59 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 14/36] futex, thp: remove special case for THP in get_futex_key Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 15/36] ksm: prepare to new THP semantics Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 16/36] mm, thp: remove compound_lock Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 17/36] arm64, thp: remove infrastructure for handling splitting PMDs Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 18/36] arm, " Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 19/36] mips, " Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 20/36] powerpc, " Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 21/36] s390, " Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 22/36] sparc, " Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 23/36] tile, " Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 24/36] x86, " Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 25/36] mm, " Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 26/36] mm: rework mapcount accounting to enable 4k mapping of THPs Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-10 13:47 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-06-22 10:22 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 27/36] mm: differentiate page_mapped() from page_mapcount() for compound pages Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-09 10:58 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-10 14:34 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCHv6 28/36] mm, numa: skip PTE-mapped THP on numa fault Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:06 ` [PATCHv6 29/36] thp: implement split_huge_pmd() Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-11 9:49 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-06-22 11:14 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-22 16:01 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-06-03 17:06 ` [PATCHv6 30/36] thp: add option to setup migration entiries during PMD split Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:06 ` [PATCHv6 31/36] thp, mm: split_huge_page(): caller need to lock page Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:06 ` [PATCHv6 32/36] thp: reintroduce split_huge_page() Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-10 15:44 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-06-22 11:28 ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2015-06-03 17:06 ` [PATCHv6 33/36] migrate_pages: try to split pages on qeueuing Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-11 9:27 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-06-22 11:35 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:06 ` [PATCHv6 34/36] thp: introduce deferred_split_huge_page() Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:06 ` [PATCHv6 35/36] mm: re-enable THP Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-03 17:06 ` [PATCHv6 36/36] thp: update documentation Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-11 12:30 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-06-22 13:18 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-22 16:07 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-06-16 13:17 ` [PATCHv6 00/36] THP refcounting redesign Jerome Marchand
2015-06-22 13:21 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-06-22 13:32 ` Jerome Marchand
2015-06-22 13:39 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
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