On Mon, 1 Apr 2013, Zhouping Liu wrote:
Hi all,It's not a problem with identifying an anonymous mapping as a hugepage,
I found THP can't correctly distinguish one anonymous hugepage map.
1. when /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled is 'always', the
amount of THP always is one less.
setting thp enabled to "always" does not guarantee that they will always
be allocatable or that your mmap() will be 2MB aligned. Your sample code
is using mmap() instead of posix_memalign() so you'll probably only get
100% hugepages only 1/512th of the time.
2. when /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled is 'madvise', THP can't"hg" would be shown in VmFlags if your MADV_HUGEPAGE was successful, are
distinguish any one anonymous hugepage size:
Testing code:
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unsigned long hugepagesize = (1UL << 21);
int main()
{
void *addr;
int i;
printf("pid is %d\n", getpid());
for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
addr = mmap(NULL, hugepagesize, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON, -1, 0);
if (addr == MAP_FAILED) {
perror("mmap");
return -1;
}
if (madvise(addr, hugepagesize, MADV_HUGEPAGE) == -1) {
perror("madvise");
return -1;
}
memset(addr, i, hugepagesize);
}
sleep(50);
return 0;
}
--------- snip ----------
The result is that it can't find any AnonHugePages from /proc/[pid]/smaps :
-------------- snip -------
7f0b38cd0000-7f0b396d0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
Size: 10240 kB
Rss: 10240 kB
Pss: 10240 kB
Shared_Clean: 0 kB
Shared_Dirty: 0 kB
Private_Clean: 0 kB
Private_Dirty: 10240 kB
Referenced: 10240 kB
Anonymous: 10240 kB
AnonHugePages: 0 kB
Swap: 0 kB
KernelPageSize: 4 kB
MMUPageSize: 4 kB
Locked: 0 kB
VmFlags: rd wr mr mw me ac
you sure this is the right vma?