Re: (not so much) Fun with THP

From: Andrea Arcangeli
Date: Tue Jan 25 2011 - 12:57:26 EST


On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 03:58:30PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On the one F15 box I've dared enable THP with, it hasn't succeeded in
> booting (with or without KMS). First it OOMed during lvm:

Sorry, for x86_32 there was some issue, below is all you need, thanks!

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
index 2071a8b..ebbc4d8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
@@ -558,13 +558,12 @@ static inline void set_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
static inline void set_pmd_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t pmd)
{
-#if PAGETABLE_LEVELS >= 3
if (sizeof(pmdval_t) > sizeof(long))
/* 5 arg words */
pv_mmu_ops.set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmdp, pmd);
else
- PVOP_VCALL4(pv_mmu_ops.set_pmd_at, mm, addr, pmdp, pmd.pmd);
-#endif
+ PVOP_VCALL4(pv_mmu_ops.set_pmd_at, mm, addr, pmdp,
+ native_pmd_val(pmd));
}
#endif

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 3ad483b..e9c0c61 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
config COMPACTION
bool "Allow for memory compaction"
select MIGRATION
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL && HUGETLB_PAGE && MMU
+ depends on MMU
help
Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages.

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 004c9c2..c4f634b 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1837,9 +1837,9 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
spin_lock(ptl);
isolated = __collapse_huge_page_isolate(vma, address, pte);
spin_unlock(ptl);
- pte_unmap(pte);

if (unlikely(!isolated)) {
+ pte_unmap(pte);
spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
BUG_ON(!pmd_none(*pmd));
set_pmd_at(mm, address, pmd, _pmd);
@@ -1856,6 +1856,7 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
anon_vma_unlock(vma->anon_vma);

__collapse_huge_page_copy(pte, new_page, vma, address, ptl);
+ pte_unmap(pte);
__SetPageUptodate(new_page);
pgtable = pmd_pgtable(_pmd);
VM_BUG_ON(page_count(pgtable) != 1);
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