From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 11/41] thp: try to free page's buffers before attempt split
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 17:40:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161011154031.GK6952@quack2.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160915115523.29737-12-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
On Thu 15-09-16 14:54:53, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> We want page to be isolated from the rest of the system before spliting
> it. We rely on page count to be 2 for file pages to make sure nobody
> uses the page: one pin to caller, one to radix-tree.
>
> Filesystems with backing storage can have page count increased if it has
> buffers.
>
> Let's try to free them, before attempt split. And remove one guarding
> VM_BUG_ON_PAGE().
>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
...
> @@ -2041,6 +2041,23 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct list_head *list)
> goto out;
> }
>
> + /* Try to free buffers before attempt split */
> + if (!PageSwapBacked(head) && PagePrivate(page)) {
> + /*
> + * We cannot trigger writeback from here due possible
> + * recursion if triggered from vmscan, only wait.
> + *
> + * Caller can trigger writeback it on its own, if safe.
> + */
> + wait_on_page_writeback(head);
> +
> + if (page_has_buffers(head) &&
> + !try_to_free_buffers(head)) {
> + ret = -EBUSY;
> + goto out;
> + }
Shouldn't you rather use try_to_release_page() here? Because filesystems
have their ->releasepage() callbacks for freeing data associated with a
page. It is not guaranteed page private data are buffers although it is
true for ext4...
Honza
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-11 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-15 11:54 [PATCHv3 00/41] ext4: support of huge pages Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:54 ` [PATCHv3 01/41] tools: Add WARN_ON_ONCE Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:54 ` [PATCHv3 02/41] radix tree test suite: Allow GFP_ATOMIC allocations to fail Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:54 ` [PATCHv3 03/41] radix-tree: Add radix_tree_join Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:54 ` [PATCHv3 04/41] radix-tree: Add radix_tree_split Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:54 ` [PATCHv3 05/41] radix-tree: Add radix_tree_split_preload() Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:54 ` [PATCHv3 06/41] radix-tree: Handle multiorder entries being deleted by replace_clear_tags Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:54 ` [PATCHv3 07/41] mm, shmem: swich huge tmpfs to multi-order radix-tree entries Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-16 12:07 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:54 ` [PATCHv3 08/41] Revert "radix-tree: implement radix_tree_maybe_preload_order()" Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:54 ` [PATCHv3 09/41] page-flags: relax page flag policy for few flags Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:54 ` [PATCHv3 10/41] mm, rmap: account file thp pages Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:54 ` [PATCHv3 11/41] thp: try to free page's buffers before attempt split Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-10-11 15:40 ` Jan Kara [this message]
2016-10-11 21:43 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:54 ` [PATCHv3 12/41] thp: handle write-protection faults for file THP Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-10-11 15:47 ` Jan Kara
2016-10-11 21:47 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:54 ` [PATCHv3 13/41] truncate: make sure invalidate_mapping_pages() can discard huge pages Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-10-11 15:58 ` Jan Kara
2016-10-11 21:53 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-10-12 6:43 ` Jan Kara
2016-10-24 10:41 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:54 ` [PATCHv3 14/41] filemap: allocate huge page in page_cache_read(), if allowed Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-10-11 16:15 ` Jan Kara
2016-10-11 21:57 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:54 ` [PATCHv3 15/41] filemap: handle huge pages in do_generic_file_read() Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-10-13 9:33 ` Jan Kara
2016-10-31 18:10 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-11-01 16:39 ` Jan Kara
2016-11-02 8:32 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-11-02 14:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-03 20:40 ` Jan Kara
2016-11-07 11:07 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-11-07 14:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-02 14:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-03 17:56 ` Jan Kara
2016-11-07 11:13 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-11-07 15:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-07 16:03 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:54 ` [PATCHv3 16/41] filemap: allocate huge page in pagecache_get_page(), if allowed Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:54 ` [PATCHv3 17/41] filemap: handle huge pages in filemap_fdatawait_range() Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-10-13 9:44 ` Jan Kara
2016-10-13 12:08 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-10-13 13:18 ` Jan Kara
2016-10-24 11:36 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-10-30 17:31 ` Jan Kara
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 18/41] HACK: readahead: alloc huge pages, if allowed Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 19/41] block: define BIO_MAX_PAGES to HPAGE_PMD_NR if huge page cache enabled Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-16 12:09 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 20/41] mm: make write_cache_pages() work on huge pages Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 21/41] thp: introduce hpage_size() and hpage_mask() Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 22/41] thp: do not threat slab pages as huge in hpage_{nr_pages,size,mask} Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 23/41] fs: make block_read_full_page() be able to read huge page Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 24/41] fs: make block_write_{begin,end}() be able to handle huge pages Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 25/41] fs: make block_page_mkwrite() aware about " Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 26/41] truncate: make truncate_inode_pages_range() " Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 27/41] truncate: make invalidate_inode_pages2_range() " Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 28/41] mm, hugetlb: switch hugetlbfs to multi-order radix-tree entries Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 29/41] ext4: make ext4_mpage_readpages() hugepage-aware Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 12:27 ` Andreas Dilger
2016-09-16 12:17 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-16 12:10 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 30/41] ext4: make ext4_writepage() work on huge pages Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 31/41] ext4: handle huge pages in ext4_page_mkwrite() Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 32/41] ext4: handle huge pages in __ext4_block_zero_page_range() Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 33/41] ext4: make ext4_block_write_begin() aware about huge pages Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 34/41] ext4: handle huge pages in ext4_da_write_end() Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 35/41] ext4: make ext4_da_page_release_reservation() aware about huge pages Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 36/41] ext4: handle writeback with " Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 37/41] ext4: make EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT work " Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 38/41] ext4: fix SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE for " Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 39/41] ext4: make fallocate() operations work with " Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 40/41] mm, fs, ext4: expand use of page_mapping() and page_to_pgoff() Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-15 11:55 ` [PATCHv3 41/41] ext4, vfs: add huge= mount option Kirill A. Shutemov
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