On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 04:13:31PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Hello John,
>
> I am rewriting purging path and found a bug from this patch.
> I might forget it so I will send this comment for recording.
>
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 09:22:50PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> > From: Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org>
> >
> > This patch adds discarding function to purge volatile ranges under
> > memory pressure. Logic is as following:
> >
> > 1. Memory pressure happens
> > 2. VM start to reclaim pages
> > 3. Check the page is in volatile range.
> > 4. If so, zap the page from the process's page table.
> > (By semantic vrange(2), we should mark it with another one to
> > make page fault when you try to access the address. It will
> > be introduced later patch)
> > 5. If page is unmapped from all processes, discard it instead of swapping.
> >
> > This patch does not address the case where there is no swap, which
> > keeps anonymous pages from being aged off the LRUs. Minchan has
> > additional patches that add support for purging anonymous pages
> >
> > XXX: First pass at file purging. Seems to work, but is likely broken
> > and needs close review.
> >
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> > Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-t...@android.com>
> > Cc: Robert Love <rl...@google.com>
> > Cc: Mel Gorman <m...@csn.ul.ie>
> > Cc: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com>
> > Cc: Dave Hansen <d...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Cc: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamus...@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Dave Chinner <da...@fromorbit.com>
> > Cc: Neil Brown <ne...@suse.de>
> > Cc: Andrea Righi <and...@betterlinux.com>
> > Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Cc: Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org>
> > Cc: Taras Glek <tg...@mozilla.com>
> > Cc: Dhaval Giani <dgi...@mozilla.com>
> > Cc: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>
> > Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motoh...@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Michel Lespinasse <wal...@google.com>
> > Cc: Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org>
> > Cc: linux...@kvack.org <linux...@kvack.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org>
> > [jstultz: Reworked to add purging of file pages, commit log tweaks]
> > Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stu...@linaro.org>
> > ---
> > include/linux/rmap.h | 12 +-
> > include/linux/swap.h | 1 +
> > include/linux/vrange.h | 7 ++
> > mm/ksm.c | 2 +-
> > mm/rmap.c | 30 +++--
> > mm/swapfile.c | 36 ++++++
> > mm/vmscan.c | 16 ++-
> > mm/vrange.c | 332
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 8 files changed, 420 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/rmap.h b/include/linux/rmap.h
> > index 6dacb93..6432dfb 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/rmap.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/rmap.h
> > @@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ enum ttu_flags {
> > };
> >
>
> < snip >
>
> > @@ -662,7 +663,7 @@ int page_mapped_in_vma(struct page *page, struct
> > vm_area_struct *vma)
> > */
> > int page_referenced_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> > unsigned long address, unsigned int *mapcount,
> > - unsigned long *vm_flags)
> > + unsigned long *vm_flags, int *is_vrange)
> > {
> > struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
> > int referenced = 0;
> > @@ -724,6 +725,9 @@ int page_referenced_one(struct page *page, struct
> > vm_area_struct *vma,
> > referenced++;
> > }
> > pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
> > + if (is_vrange &&
> > + vrange_address(mm, address, address + PAGE_SIZE - 1))
> > + *is_vrange = 1;
>
> < snip >
>
> > +static bool __vrange_address(struct vrange_root *vroot,
> > + unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
> > +{
> > + struct interval_tree_node *node;
> > +
> > + node = interval_tree_iter_first(&vroot->v_rb, start, end);
> > + return node ? true : false;
> > +}
> > +
> > +bool vrange_address(struct mm_struct *mm,
> > + unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
> > +{
> > + struct vrange_root *vroot;
> > + unsigned long vstart_idx, vend_idx;
> > + struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> > + bool ret;
> > +
> > + vma = find_vma(mm, start);
>
> It seems to be tweaked by you while you are refactoring with file-vrange
> The problem of the code is that you couldn't use vma without holding
> the lock of mmap_sem and you couldn't use the lock in purging path
> because you couldn't know other tasks's state so it might be a dealock
> if you try to hold a lock.
It was sent by mistake with not completing. :(
Exactly speaking, the find_vma is a problem and we don't need it.
Couldn't we pass just vma, NOT mm?
Have you seen any problem?
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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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