Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: hugetlb: add stub-like do_hugetlb_numa()

[Mel Gorman]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 07:42:13PM +0900, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> On 03/30/2015 07:28 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> >On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 09:40:54AM +0000, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> >>hugetlb doesn't support NUMA balancing now, but that doesn't mean that we
> >>don't have to make hugetlb code prepared for PROTNONE entry properly.
> >>In the current kernel, when a process accesses to hugetlb range protected
> >>with PROTNONE, it causes unexpected COWs, which finally put hugetlb subsystem
> >>into broken/uncontrollable state, where for example h->resv_huge_pages is
> >>subtracted too much and wrapped around to a very large number, and free
> >>hugepage pool is no longer maintainable.
> >>
> >
> >Ouch!
> >
> >>This patch simply clears PROTNONE when it's caught out. Real NUMA balancing
> >>code for hugetlb is not implemented yet (not sure how much it's worth doing.)
> >>
> >
> >It's not worth doing at all. Furthermore, an application that took the
> >effort to allocate and use hugetlb pages is not going to appreciate the
> >minor faults incurred by automatic balancing for no gain.
> 
> OK,
> 
> >Why not something
> >like the following untested patch?
> 
> I'll test this tomorrow.
> Thank you very much for the comment.
> 

I note now that the patch was too hasty. By rights, that check
should be covered by vma_migratable() but it's only checked if
CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION which means it's x86-only. If you
are seeing this problem on any other arch then a more correct fix might be
to remove the CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION check in vma_migratable.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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