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

From: Steve Capper
Date: Thu Nov 08 2018 - 05:36:19 EST


On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 06:31:59PM +0530, 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>

Reviewed-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@xxxxxxx>

> ---
> include/linux/hugetlb.h | 15 +++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> index 70bcd89..4cc3871 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> @@ -493,18 +493,29 @@ static inline pgoff_t basepage_index(struct page *page)
> extern int dissolve_free_huge_page(struct page *page);
> extern int dissolve_free_huge_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
> unsigned long end_pfn);
> -static inline bool hugepage_migration_supported(struct hstate *h)
> -{
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION
> +#ifndef arch_hugetlb_migration_supported
> +static inline bool arch_hugetlb_migration_supported(struct hstate *h)
> +{
> if ((huge_page_shift(h) == PMD_SHIFT) ||
> (huge_page_shift(h) == PUD_SHIFT) ||
> (huge_page_shift(h) == PGDIR_SHIFT))
> return true;
> else
> return false;
> +}
> +#endif
> #else
> +static inline bool arch_hugetlb_migration_supported(struct hstate *h)
> +{
> return false;
> +}
> #endif
> +
> +static inline bool hugepage_migration_supported(struct hstate *h)
> +{
> + return arch_hugetlb_migration_supported(h);
> }
>
> /*
> --
> 2.7.4
>