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SubjectRe: [v3 PATCH 2/2] mm: thp: fix false negative of shmem vma's THP eligibility
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On 6/19/19 5:12 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 6/13/19 6:44 AM, Yang Shi wrote:
>> The commit 7635d9cbe832 ("mm, thp, proc: report THP eligibility for each
>> vma") introduced THPeligible bit for processes' smaps. But, when checking
>> the eligibility for shmem vma, __transparent_hugepage_enabled() is
>> called to override the result from shmem_huge_enabled(). It may result
>> in the anonymous vma's THP flag override shmem's. For example, running a
>> simple test which create THP for shmem, but with anonymous THP disabled,
>> when reading the process's smaps, it may show:
> ...
>
>> diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
>> index 01d4eb0..6a13882 100644
>> --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
>> +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
>> @@ -796,7 +796,8 @@ static int show_smap(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
>>
>> __show_smap(m, &mss);
>>
>> - seq_printf(m, "THPeligible: %d\n", transparent_hugepage_enabled(vma));
>> + seq_printf(m, "THPeligible: %d\n",
>> + transparent_hugepage_enabled(vma));
>>
>> if (arch_pkeys_enabled())
>> seq_printf(m, "ProtectionKey: %8u\n", vma_pkey(vma));
>> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
>> index 4bc2552..36f0225 100644
>> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
>> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
>> @@ -65,10 +65,15 @@
>>
>> bool transparent_hugepage_enabled(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>> {
>> + /* The addr is used to check if the vma size fits */
>> + unsigned long addr = (vma->vm_end & HPAGE_PMD_MASK) - HPAGE_PMD_SIZE;
>> +
>> + if (!transhuge_vma_suitable(vma, addr))
>> + return false;
> Sorry for replying rather late, and not in the v2 thread, but unlike
> Hugh I'm not convinced that we should include vma size/alignment in the
> test for reporting THPeligible, which was supposed to reflect
> administrative settings and madvise hints. I guess it's mostly a matter
> of personal feeling. But one objective distinction is that the admin
> settings and madvise do have an exact binary result for the whole VMA,
> while this check is more fuzzy - only part of the VMA's span might be
> properly sized+aligned, and THPeligible will be 1 for the whole VMA.

I think THPeligible is used to tell us if the vma is suitable for
allocating THP. Both anonymous and shmem THP checks vma size/alignment
to decide to or not to allocate THP.

And, if vma size/alignment is not checked, THPeligible may show "true"
for even 4K mapping. This doesn't make too much sense either.

>
>> if (vma_is_anonymous(vma))
>> return __transparent_hugepage_enabled(vma);
>> - if (vma_is_shmem(vma) && shmem_huge_enabled(vma))
>> - return __transparent_hugepage_enabled(vma);
>> + if (vma_is_shmem(vma))
>> + return shmem_huge_enabled(vma);
>>
>> return false;
>> }
>> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
>> index 1bb3b8d..a807712 100644
>> --- a/mm/shmem.c
>> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
>> @@ -3872,6 +3872,9 @@ bool shmem_huge_enabled(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>> loff_t i_size;
>> pgoff_t off;
>>
>> + if ((vma->vm_flags & VM_NOHUGEPAGE) ||
>> + test_bit(MMF_DISABLE_THP, &vma->vm_mm->flags))
>> + return false;
>> if (shmem_huge == SHMEM_HUGE_FORCE)
>> return true;
>> if (shmem_huge == SHMEM_HUGE_DENY)
>>

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