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From: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/26] mm: Do page fault accounting in handle_mm_fault
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 20:49:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200624204903.097a5a58@thinkpad> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200619160538.8641-2-peterx@redhat.com>

On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 12:05:13 -0400
Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:

[...]

> @@ -4393,6 +4425,38 @@ vm_fault_t handle_mm_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
>  			mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(false);
>  	}
> 
> +	if (ret & VM_FAULT_RETRY)
> +		return ret;

I'm wondering if this also needs a check and exit for VM_FAULT_ERROR.
In arch code (s390 and all others I briefly checked), the accounting
was skipped for VM_FAULT_ERROR case.

> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Do accounting in the common code, to avoid unnecessary
> +	 * architecture differences or duplicated code.
> +	 *
> +	 * We arbitrarily make the rules be:
> +	 *
> +	 *  - faults that never even got here (because the address
> +	 *    wasn't valid). That includes arch_vma_access_permitted()

Missing "do not count" at the end of the first sentence?

> +	 *    failing above.
> +	 *
> +	 *    So this is expressly not a "this many hardware page
> +	 *    faults" counter. Use the hw profiling for that.
> +	 *
> +	 *  - incomplete faults (ie RETRY) do not count (see above).
> +	 *    They will only count once completed.
> +	 *
> +	 *  - the fault counts as a "major" fault when the final
> +	 *    successful fault is VM_FAULT_MAJOR, or if it was a
> +	 *    retry (which implies that we couldn't handle it
> +	 *    immediately previously).
> +	 *
> +	 *  - if the fault is done for GUP, regs wil be NULL and

wil -> will

Regards,
Gerald

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-24 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-19 16:05 [PATCH 00/26] mm: Page fault accounting cleanups Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:05 ` [PATCH 01/26] mm: Do page fault accounting in handle_mm_fault Peter Xu
2020-06-24 18:49   ` Gerald Schaefer [this message]
2020-06-24 20:34     ` Peter Xu
2020-06-26 19:54       ` Gerald Schaefer
2020-06-26 21:53         ` Peter Xu
2020-06-26 22:27           ` Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:05 ` [PATCH 02/26] mm/alpha: Use general page fault accounting Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:05 ` [PATCH 03/26] mm/arc: " Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:05 ` [PATCH 04/26] mm/arm: " Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:05 ` [PATCH 05/26] mm/arm64: " Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:05 ` [PATCH 06/26] mm/csky: " Peter Xu
2020-06-20  1:44   ` Guo Ren
2020-06-20 16:08     ` Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:05 ` [PATCH 07/26] mm/hexagon: " Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:05 ` [PATCH 08/26] mm/ia64: " Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:05 ` [PATCH 09/26] mm/m68k: " Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:05 ` [PATCH 10/26] mm/microblaze: " Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:05 ` [PATCH 11/26] mm/mips: " Peter Xu
2020-06-25  8:28   ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2020-06-19 16:05 ` [PATCH 12/26] mm/nds32: " Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:12 ` [PATCH 13/26] mm/nios2: " Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:12 ` [PATCH 14/26] mm/openrisc: " Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:13 ` [PATCH 15/26] mm/parisc: " Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:13 ` [PATCH 16/26] mm/powerpc: " Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:13 ` [PATCH 17/26] mm/riscv: " Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:13 ` [PATCH 18/26] mm/s390: " Peter Xu
2020-06-24 18:49   ` Gerald Schaefer
2020-06-24 20:40     ` Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:13 ` [PATCH 19/26] mm/sh: " Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:13 ` [PATCH 20/26] mm/sparc32: " Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:13 ` [PATCH 21/26] mm/sparc64: " Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:13 ` [PATCH 22/26] mm/unicore32: " Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:13 ` [PATCH 23/26] mm/x86: " Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:13 ` [PATCH 24/26] mm/xtensa: " Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:14 ` [PATCH 25/26] mm: Clean up the last pieces of page fault accountings Peter Xu
2020-06-19 16:14 ` [PATCH 26/26] mm/gup: Remove task_struct pointer for all gup code Peter Xu
2020-06-26 22:31 [PATCH 00/26] mm: Page fault accounting cleanups Peter Xu
2020-06-26 22:31 ` [PATCH 01/26] mm: Do page fault accounting in handle_mm_fault Peter Xu
2020-06-29  1:52   ` John Hubbard
2020-06-29 14:56     ` Peter Xu

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