From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch v3] mm, thp: always specify disabled vmas as nh in smaps
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:40:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <74154099-1dff-e821-8220-356402a5644f@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1809251449060.96762@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
On 9/25/18 11:50 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
> Commit 1860033237d4 ("mm: make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE immediately active")
> introduced a regression in that userspace cannot always determine the set
> of vmas where thp is disabled.
>
> Userspace relies on the "nh" flag being emitted as part of /proc/pid/smaps
> to determine if a vma has been disabled from being backed by hugepages.
>
> Previous to this commit, prctl(PR_SET_THP_DISABLE, 1) would cause thp to
> be disabled and emit "nh" as a flag for the corresponding vmas as part of
> /proc/pid/smaps. After the commit, thp is disabled by means of an mm
> flag and "nh" is not emitted.
>
> This causes smaps parsing libraries to assume a vma is enabled for thp
> and ends up puzzling the user on why its memory is not backed by thp.
>
> This also clears the "hg" flag to make the behavior of MADV_HUGEPAGE and
> PR_SET_THP_DISABLE definitive.
>
> Fixes: 1860033237d4 ("mm: make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE immediately active")
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Well, as Andrew said, we had the opportunity to provide a more complete
info to userspace e.g. with Michal's suggested /proc/pid/status
enhancement. If this is good enough for you (and nobody else cares) then
I won't block it either. It would be unfortunate though if we could not
revert this in case the MMF_DISABLE_THP querying is implemented later.
Hopefully the only consumers are internal tools such as yours, which can
be easily adapted...
Vlastimil
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-26 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-24 17:55 [patch] mm, thp: always specify ineligible vmas as nh in smaps David Rientjes
2018-09-24 18:25 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-09-24 19:17 ` David Rientjes
2018-09-24 19:30 ` [patch v2] " David Rientjes
2018-09-24 19:56 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-24 20:02 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-24 20:43 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-09-25 5:50 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-25 19:52 ` David Rientjes
2018-09-25 20:29 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-25 21:45 ` David Rientjes
2018-09-25 22:04 ` Andrew Morton
2018-09-26 0:55 ` David Rientjes
2018-09-26 6:06 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-02 11:28 ` [RFC PATCH] mm, proc: report PR_SET_THP_DISABLE in proc Michal Hocko
2018-10-02 20:29 ` David Rientjes
2018-10-03 7:36 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-03 22:51 ` David Rientjes
2018-10-04 5:58 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-04 9:15 ` David Rientjes
2018-10-04 9:46 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-04 18:34 ` David Rientjes
2018-10-09 8:33 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-15 15:03 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-15 22:25 ` David Rientjes
2018-10-16 10:48 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-16 21:24 ` David Rientjes
2018-10-17 7:05 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-17 19:59 ` David Rientjes
2018-10-18 7:00 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-14 13:23 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-14 21:41 ` David Rientjes
2018-11-15 9:02 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-15 9:22 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-19 22:05 ` David Rientjes
2018-11-20 7:48 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-03 17:33 ` Mike Rapoport
2018-09-25 21:50 ` [patch v3] mm, thp: always specify disabled vmas as nh in smaps David Rientjes
2018-09-26 6:12 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-26 7:17 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-26 8:40 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
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