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SubjectRe: [PATCH] HUGETLBFS: Align memory request to multiple of huge page size to avoid underallocating.
On 27/02/2012 6:42 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:09:28 -0500
> Steven Truelove<steven.truelove@utoronto.ca> wrote:
>
>> When calling shmget with SHM_HUGETLB, shmget aligns the request size to PAGE_SIZE, but this is not sufficient. Modified hugetlb_file_setup to align requests to the huge page size.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Steven Truelove<steven.truelove@utoronto.ca>
>> ---
>> fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 9 ++++++---
>> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
>> index 1e85a7a..6c23f09 100644
>> --- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
>> +++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
>> @@ -938,6 +938,8 @@ struct file *hugetlb_file_setup(const char *name, size_t size,
>> struct path path;
>> struct dentry *root;
>> struct qstr quick_string;
>> + struct hstate *hstate;
>> + int num_pages;
>>
>> *user = NULL;
>> if (!hugetlbfs_vfsmount)
>> @@ -967,10 +969,11 @@ struct file *hugetlb_file_setup(const char *name, size_t size,
>> if (!inode)
>> goto out_dentry;
>>
>> + hstate = hstate_inode(inode);
>> + num_pages = (size + huge_page_size(hstate) - 1)>>
>> + huge_page_shift(hstate);
>> error = -ENOMEM;
>> - if (hugetlb_reserve_pages(inode, 0,
>> - size>> huge_page_shift(hstate_inode(inode)), NULL,
>> - acctflag))
>> + if (hugetlb_reserve_pages(inode, 0, num_pages, NULL, acctflag))
>> goto out_inode;
>>
>> d_instantiate(path.dentry, inode);
> A few things...
>
> - sys_mmap_pgoff() does the rounding up prior to calling
> hugetlb_file_setup(). ipc/shm.c:newseg() does not.
>
> We should be consistent here: do it in the caller or the callee,
> not both (or neither!). I guess doing it in the callee would be
> best.
>
> - The above code could/should have used ALIGN(). Or round_up(): the
> difference presently escapes me, even though it was so obvious that
> we left all these things undocumented.
>
> - What's the point in aligning the length if we don't also look at
> the start address? If that isn't a multiple of huge_page_size(), we
> will need an additional page.
>

Since mmap has an address to check and shmget does not, if the address
is going to be checked it will need to be in the caller. If you like, I
will leave the size check in hugetlb_file_setup() and remove the size
check from mmap_pgoff, but replace it with a check of the address. That
will centralize the common check (size of buffer), and let mmap_pgoff
check the part that is unique to it. Patch shortly.

Steven Truelove



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