RE: [PATCH v8 05/22] Add vm_replace_mixed()

From: Zhang, Tianfei
Date: Wed Jul 23 2014 - 21:37:12 EST


It is double page_table_lock issue, should be free-and-realloc will be simple and readability?

+ if (!pte_none(*pte)) {
+ if (!replace)
+ goto out_unlock;
+ VM_BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&vma->vm_file->f_mapping->i_mmap_mutex));
+ pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
+ zap_page_range_single(vma, addr, PAGE_SIZE, NULL);
+ pte = get_locked_pte(mm, addr, &ptl);
+ }

Best,
Figo

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Kirill A. Shutemov
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 11:55 PM
> To: Matthew Wilcox
> Cc: Wilcox, Matthew R; linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx;
> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 05/22] Add vm_replace_mixed()
>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:27:45AM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 05:20:48PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 09:52:22AM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > > I'd love to use a lighter-weight weapon! What would you recommend
> > > > using, zap_pte_range()?
> > >
> > > The most straight-forward way: extract body of pte cycle from
> > > zap_pte_range() to separate function -- zap_pte() -- and use it.
> >
> > OK, I can do that. What about the other parts of zap_page_range(), do
> > I need to call them?
> >
> > lru_add_drain();
>
> No, I guess..
>
> > tlb_gather_mmu(&tlb, mm, address, end);
> > tlb_finish_mmu(&tlb, address, end);
>
> New zap_pte() should tolerate tlb == NULL and does flush_tlb_page() or
> pte_clear_*flush or something.
>
> > update_hiwater_rss(mm);
>
> No: you cannot end up with lower rss after replace, iiuc.
>
> > mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(mm, address, end);
> > mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(mm, address, end);
>
> mmu_notifier_invalidate_page() should be enough.
>
> > > > if ((fd = open(argv[1], O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0666)) < 0) {
> > > > perror(argv[1]);
> > > > exit(1);
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > if (ftruncate(fd, 4096) < 0) {
> > >
> > > Shouldn't this be ftruncate(fd, 0)? Otherwise the memcpy() below
> > > will fault in page from backing storage, not hole and write will not
> > > replace anything.
> >
> > Ah, it was starting with a new file, hence the O_CREAT up above.
>
> Do you mean you pointed to new file all the time? O_CREAT doesn't truncate
> file if it exists, iirc.
>
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