Re: [PATCH V3 3/5] mm/hugetlb: Enable arch specific huge page size support for migration

[Michal Hocko]

On Thu 25-10-18 11:53:34, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
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> On 10/24/2018 07:28 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Wed 24-10-18 15:56:39, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >> On Tue 23-10-18 18:31:59, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> >>> Architectures like arm64 have HugeTLB page sizes which are different than
> >>> generic sizes at PMD, PUD, PGD level and implemented via contiguous bits.
> >>> At present these special size HugeTLB pages cannot be identified through
> >>> macros like (PMD|PUD|PGDIR)_SHIFT and hence chosen not be migrated.
> >>>
> >>> Enabling migration support for these special HugeTLB page sizes along with
> >>> the generic ones (PMD|PUD|PGD) would require identifying all of them on a
> >>> given platform. A platform specific hook can precisely enumerate all huge
> >>> page sizes supported for migration. Instead of comparing against standard
> >>> huge page orders let hugetlb_migration_support() function call a platform
> >>> hook arch_hugetlb_migration_support(). Default definition for the platform
> >>> hook maintains existing semantics which checks standard huge page order.
> >>> But an architecture can choose to override the default and provide support
> >>> for a comprehensive set of huge page sizes.
> >>>
> >>> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > fat fingers here, should be mhocko@xxxxxxxx of course.
> 
> Sure no problems. As we had discussed earlier and agreed to keep the previous
> patch "mm/hugetlb: Enable PUD level huge page migration" separate and not fold
> into this one, I will assume your ACK on it as well unless your disagree.

OK with me.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs