Re: [PATCH] mm/shmem: fix up gfpmask for shmem hugepage allocation

[Rik van Riel]

On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 16:09 +0800, Xu Yu wrote:

> @@ -1887,6 +1930,7 @@ static int shmem_getpage_gfp(struct inode
> *inode, pgoff_t index,
>  	}
>  
>  alloc_huge:
> +	gfp = shmem_hugepage_gfpmask_fixup(gfp, sgp_huge);
>  	page = shmem_alloc_and_acct_page(gfp, inode, index, true);
>  	if (IS_ERR(page)) {
>  alloc_nohuge:

This looks it could be a bug, because the changed
gfp flags are also used for the non-huge allocation
below the alloc_nohuge: label, when the huge allocation
fails.

Using a separate huge_gfp variable would solve that
issue.

However, your patch also changes the meaning of
SHMEM_HUGE_FORCE from "override mount flags" to
"aggressively try reclaim and compaction", which
mixes up the equivalents of the anon THP sysctl
"enabled" and "defrag" settings.

I believe it makes sense to continue keeping the
"what should khugepaged do with these pages?" and
"how hard should we try at allocation time?" settings
separately for shmem the same way they are kept
separately for anonymous memory.

I also suspect it is simplest if shmem uses the
same "how hard should we try at allocation time?"
settings from the "defrag" sysfs file, instead
of giving system administrators two knobs that they
will likely want to set to the same value anyway.

Coincidentally, I have been looking at the same
code on and off for the past month, and also sent
a patch to the list to fix this issue yesterday.

I suspect my patch can be simplified a little more
by directly using alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask to
create a huge_gfp flag in shmem_getpage_gfp.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20201021234846.5cc97e62@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

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