Re: [PATCH V5 1/3] mm: Add get_user_pages_cma_migrate

From: Alexey Kardashevskiy
Date: Wed Dec 19 2018 - 23:32:26 EST




On 19/12/2018 14:40, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> This helper does a get_user_pages_fast and if it find pages in the CMA area
> it will try to migrate them before taking page reference. This makes sure that
> we don't keep non-movable pages (due to page reference count) in the CMA area.
> Not able to move pages out of CMA area result in CMA allocation failures.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/hugetlb.h | 2 +
> include/linux/migrate.h | 3 +
> mm/hugetlb.c | 4 +-
> mm/migrate.c | 139 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 146 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> index 087fd5f48c91..1eed0cdaec0e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> @@ -371,6 +371,8 @@ struct page *alloc_huge_page_nodemask(struct hstate *h, int preferred_nid,
> nodemask_t *nmask);
> struct page *alloc_huge_page_vma(struct hstate *h, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> unsigned long address);
> +struct page *alloc_migrate_huge_page(struct hstate *h, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> + int nid, nodemask_t *nmask);
> int huge_add_to_page_cache(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
> pgoff_t idx);
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/migrate.h b/include/linux/migrate.h
> index f2b4abbca55e..d82b35afd2eb 100644
> --- a/include/linux/migrate.h
> +++ b/include/linux/migrate.h
> @@ -286,6 +286,9 @@ static inline int migrate_vma(const struct migrate_vma_ops *ops,
> }
> #endif /* IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MIGRATE_VMA_HELPER) */
>
> +extern int get_user_pages_cma_migrate(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
> + struct page **pages);


ah, sorry for commenting the same patch again but
./scripts/checkpatch.pl complains a log on this patch.


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Alexey