RE: [PATCH 2/3 htlb-fault] Demand faulting for hugetlb

From: Adam Litke
Date: Wed Sep 07 2005 - 09:04:55 EST


On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 10:33 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adam Litke
> >>Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 5:59 AM
> >>To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>Cc: ADAM G. LITKE [imap]
> >>Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3 htlb-fault] Demand faulting for hugetlb
>
> >>+retry:
> >>+ page = find_get_page(mapping, idx);
> >>+ if (!page) {
> >>+ /* charge the fs quota first */
> >>+ if (hugetlb_get_quota(mapping)) {
> >>+ ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
> >>+ goto out;
> >>+ }
> >>+ page = alloc_huge_page();
> >>+ if (!page) {
> >>+ hugetlb_put_quota(mapping);
> >>+ ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
> >>+ goto out;
> >>+ }
> >>+ if (add_to_page_cache(page, mapping, idx, GFP_ATOMIC)) {
>
> Here you lost hugetlb_put_quota(mapping);

Whoops, thanks for catching that.

> >>+ put_page(page);
> >>+ goto retry;
> >>+ }
> >>+ unlock_page(page);
>
> As for regular pages, kernel is used to unlock mm-> page_table_lock
> before find_get_page and relock it before setting pte. Why isn't the
> style followed by huge page fault?

As far as I can tell, we should be able to do that for large pages as
well. I'll give it a spin.

--
Adam Litke - (agl at us.ibm.com)
IBM Linux Technology Center

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