Re: [PATCH V2] mm/thp/migration: switch from flush_tlb_range to flush_pmd_tlb_range
From: Aneesh Kumar K.V
Date: Wed Feb 10 2016 - 11:14:27 EST
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> We remove one instace of flush_tlb_range here. That was added by
> f714f4f20e59ea6eea264a86b9a51fd51b88fc54 ("mm: numa: call MMU notifiers
> on THP migration"). But the pmdp_huge_clear_flush_notify should have
> done the require flush for us. Hence remove the extra flush.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes from V1:
> * fix build error
>
> include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> mm/migrate.c | 8 +++++---
> mm/pgtable-generic.c | 14 --------------
> 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
> index c370b261c720..9401f4819891 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
> @@ -783,6 +783,23 @@ static inline int pmd_clear_huge(pmd_t *pmd)
> }
> #endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP */
>
> +#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_FLUSH_PMD_TLB_RANGE
> +#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> +/*
> + * ARCHes with special requirements for evicting THP backing TLB entries can
> + * implement this. Otherwise also, it can help optimize normal TLB flush in
> + * THP regime. stock flush_tlb_range() typically has optimization to nuke the
> + * entire TLB TLB if flush span is greater than a threshold, which will
> + * likely be true for a single huge page. Thus a single thp flush will
> + * invalidate the entire TLB which is not desitable.
> + * e.g. see arch/arc: flush_pmd_tlb_range
> + */
> +#define flush_pmd_tlb_range(vma, addr, end) flush_tlb_range(vma, addr, end)
> +#else
> +#define flush_pmd_tlb_range(vma, addr, end) BUILD_BUG()
> +#endif
> +#endif
> +
> #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
>
> #ifndef io_remap_pfn_range
> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
> index b1034f9c77e7..c079c115d038 100644
> --- a/mm/migrate.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -1767,7 +1767,10 @@ int migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
> put_page(new_page);
> goto out_fail;
> }
> -
> + /*
> + * We are not sure a pending tlb flush here is for a huge page
> + * mapping or not. Hence use the tlb range variant
> + */
> if (mm_tlb_flush_pending(mm))
> flush_tlb_range(vma, mmun_start, mmun_end);
>
I was thinking we should be able to switch this flush_pmd_tlb_range. But
Kirill was not sure when we discussed this last time. Can we have a
pending tlb flush with PAGE_SIZE page translation, when we are parallely
trying to handle a autonuma fault on that ?
> @@ -1823,12 +1826,11 @@ fail_putback:
> page_add_anon_rmap(new_page, vma, mmun_start, true);
> pmdp_huge_clear_flush_notify(vma, mmun_start, pmd);
> set_pmd_at(mm, mmun_start, pmd, entry);
> - flush_tlb_range(vma, mmun_start, mmun_end);
> update_mmu_cache_pmd(vma, address, &entry);
>
> if (page_count(page) != 2) {
> set_pmd_at(mm, mmun_start, pmd, orig_entry);
> - flush_tlb_range(vma, mmun_start, mmun_end);
> + flush_pmd_tlb_range(vma, mmun_start, mmun_end);
> mmu_notifier_invalidate_range(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);
> update_mmu_cache_pmd(vma, address, &entry);
> page_remove_rmap(new_page, true);
> diff --git a/mm/pgtable-generic.c b/mm/pgtable-generic.c
> index 9d4767698a1c..3c9c78400300 100644
> --- a/mm/pgtable-generic.c
> +++ b/mm/pgtable-generic.c
> @@ -84,20 +84,6 @@ pte_t ptep_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
>
> -#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_FLUSH_PMD_TLB_RANGE
> -
> -/*
> - * ARCHes with special requirements for evicting THP backing TLB entries can
> - * implement this. Otherwise also, it can help optimize normal TLB flush in
> - * THP regime. stock flush_tlb_range() typically has optimization to nuke the
> - * entire TLB TLB if flush span is greater than a threshhold, which will
> - * likely be true for a single huge page. Thus a single thp flush will
> - * invalidate the entire TLB which is not desitable.
> - * e.g. see arch/arc: flush_pmd_tlb_range
> - */
> -#define flush_pmd_tlb_range(vma, addr, end) flush_tlb_range(vma, addr, end)
> -#endif
> -
> #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_SET_ACCESS_FLAGS
> int pmdp_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmdp,
> --
> 2.5.0
-aneesh