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khugepaged: enable collapse pmd for pte-mapped THP
authorSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 22:38:30 +0000 (15:38 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 22:54:11 +0000 (15:54 -0700)
commit27e1f8273113adec0e98bf513e4091636b27cc2a
treecd1f81f4765ab885b2ed04d178691c4ed9c7845b
parent5a52c9df62b422087d0c88fc79641028e4472a3b
khugepaged: enable collapse pmd for pte-mapped THP

khugepaged needs exclusive mmap_sem to access page table.  When it fails
to lock mmap_sem, the page will fault in as pte-mapped THP.  As the page
is already a THP, khugepaged will not handle this pmd again.

This patch enables the khugepaged to retry collapse the page table.

struct mm_slot (in khugepaged.c) is extended with an array, containing
addresses of pte-mapped THPs.  We use array here for simplicity.  We can
easily replace it with more advanced data structures when needed.

In khugepaged_scan_mm_slot(), if the mm contains pte-mapped THP, we try to
collapse the page table.

Since collapse may happen at an later time, some pages may already fault
in.  collapse_pte_mapped_thp() is added to properly handle these pages.
collapse_pte_mapped_thp() also double checks whether all ptes in this pmd
are mapping to the same THP.  This is necessary because some subpage of
the THP may be replaced, for example by uprobe.  In such cases, it is not
possible to collapse the pmd.

[kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com: add comments for retract_page_tables()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190816145443.6ard3iilytc6jlgv@box
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190815164525.1848545-6-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/khugepaged.h
mm/khugepaged.c