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SubjectRe: [PATCH 10/19] mm, mpol: Use special PROT_NONE to migrate pages
On 07/31/2012 03:12 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> + if (unlikely(pmd_trans_splitting(entry))) {
> + spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> + wait_split_huge_page(vma->anon_vma, pmd);
> + return;
> + }
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> + page = pmd_page(entry);
> + VM_BUG_ON(!PageCompound(page) || !PageHead(page));
> +
> + get_page(page);
> + spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> +
> + /*
> + * XXX should we serialize against split_huge_page ?
> + */

I believe we are already serialized here, because we check
for pmd_trans_splitting while holding the page table lock.

The THP code grabs the page table lock when modifying this
status, so we should be good.

> + /*
> + * Due to lacking code to migrate thp pages, we'll split
> + * (which preserves the special PROT_NONE) and re-take the
> + * fault on the normal pages.
> + */
> + split_huge_page(page);
> + put_page(page);
> + return;

Likewise, the THP code serializes split_huge_page, and has
protection against multiple simultaneous invocations of
split_huge_page.

A second invocation of split_huge_page will see that the
page was already split, and it will bail out.

> +do_fixup:
> + spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> + if (unlikely(!pmd_same(*pmd, entry)))
> + goto out_unlock;

If the THP was split for another reason than a NUMA
fault, the !pmd_same check here should result in us
doing the right thing automatically.

I believe this code is correct.

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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