Re: [PATCH] /proc/PID/smaps: Add PMD migration entry parsing

[Zi Yan]

On 31 Mar 2020, at 22:24, Huang, Ying wrote:

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> Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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>> On 31 Mar 2020, at 4:56, Huang, Ying wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Now, when read /proc/PID/smaps, the PMD migration entry in page table is simply
>>> ignored.  To improve the accuracy of /proc/PID/smaps, its parsing and processing
>>> is added.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: "JÃrÃme Glisse" <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>  fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
>>>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
>>> index 8d382d4ec067..b5b3aef8cb3b 100644
>>> --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
>>> +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
>>> @@ -548,8 +548,17 @@ static void smaps_pmd_entry(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
>>>         bool locked = !!(vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED);
>>>         struct page *page;
>>
>> Like Konstantin pointed out in another email, you could initialize page to NULL here.
>> Plus you do not need the âelse-returnâ below, if you do that.
>
> Yes.  That looks better.  Will change this in the next version.

Thanks.

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>>>
>>> -       /* FOLL_DUMP will return -EFAULT on huge zero page */
>>> -       page = follow_trans_huge_pmd(vma, addr, pmd, FOLL_DUMP);
>>> +       if (pmd_present(*pmd)) {
>>> +               /* FOLL_DUMP will return -EFAULT on huge zero page */
>>> +               page = follow_trans_huge_pmd(vma, addr, pmd, FOLL_DUMP);
>>> +       } else if (unlikely(is_swap_pmd(*pmd))) {
>>
>> Should be:
>>           } else if (unlikely(thp_migration_support() && is_swap_pmd(*pmd))) {
>>
>> Otherwise, when THP migration is disabled and the PMD is under splitting, VM_BUG_ON
>> will be triggered.
>
> We hold the PMD page table lock when call smaps_pmd_entry().  How does
> PMD splitting trigger VM_BUG_ON()?

Oh, I missed that. Your original code is right. Thank you for the explanation.



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Best Regards,
Yan Zi

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