Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm,thp,shmem: make khugepaged obey tmpfs mount flags

[Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>]

On 11/26/20 7:14 PM, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-11-26 at 18:18 +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> On 11/24/20 8:49 PM, Rik van Riel wrote:
>>> Currently if thp enabled=[madvise], mounting a tmpfs filesystem
>>> with huge=always and mmapping files from that tmpfs does not
>>> result in khugepaged collapsing those mappings, despite the
>>> mount flag indicating that it should.
>>>
>>> Fix that by breaking up the blocks of tests in hugepage_vma_check
>>> a little bit, and testing things in the correct order.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
>>> Fixes: c2231020ea7b ("mm: thp: register mm for khugepaged when
>>> merging vma for shmem")
>>
>> Looks ok. But, it we have sysfs thp enabled=never, and shmem mount
>> explicitly 
>> thp enabled, then shmem mount overrides the global sysfs setting and
>> thp's will 
>> be allocated there, right? However, khugepaged_enabled() will be
>> false and thus 
>> khugepaged won't run at all? So a similar situation than what you're
>> fixing here.
> 
> Indeed, that is somewhat similar. Whether or not shmem
> allocations attempt huge pages is controlled by both
> the file /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled

Ah right, there's also that sysfs file.

> and mount options.
> 
> This patch makes khugepaged treat the mount options
> and/or
> sysfs flag as enabling collapsing of huge pages in case
> enabled = [always] for regular THPs.
> 
> Should I send another patch on top
> of this that causes
> khugepaged to be enabled when regular THPs are disabled,
> but shmem THPs are enabled in any way?

I think it would make sense. Although it might involve counting
thp-enabled shmem mounts and only run khugepaged when there are >0 of them.