Re: [PATCH v23 05/15] mm/damon: Implement primitives for the virtual memory address spaces

[SeongJae Park]

On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 14:54:02 -0800 Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 8:47 AM SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> > > [snip]
> > > > +
> > > > +static bool damon_va_young(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> > > > +                       unsigned long *page_sz)
> > > > +{
> > > > +       pte_t *pte = NULL;
> > > > +       pmd_t *pmd = NULL;
> > > > +       spinlock_t *ptl;
> > > > +       bool young = false;
> > > > +
> > > > +       if (follow_pte_pmd(mm, addr, NULL, &pte, &pmd, &ptl))
> > > > +               return false;
> > > > +
> > > > +       *page_sz = PAGE_SIZE;
> > > > +       if (pte) {
> > > > +               young = pte_young(*pte);
> > > > +               if (!young)
> > > > +                       young = !page_is_idle(pte_page(*pte));
> > > > +               pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
> > > > +               return young;
> > > > +       }
> > > > +
> > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> > > > +       young = pmd_young(*pmd);
> > > > +       if (!young)
> > > > +               young = !page_is_idle(pmd_page(*pmd));
> > > > +       spin_unlock(ptl);
> > > > +       *page_sz = ((1UL) << HPAGE_PMD_SHIFT);
> > > > +#endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
> > > > +
> > > > +       return young;
> > >
> > > You need mmu_notifier_test_young() here. Hmm I remember mentioning
> > > this in some previous version as well.
> >
> > Your question and my answer was as below:
> >
> >     > Don't you need mmu_notifier_clear_young() here?
> >
> >     I think we don't need it here because we only read the Accessed bit and PG_Idle
> >     if Accessed bit was not set.
> >
> > I should notice that you mean 'test_young()' but didn't, sorry.  I will add it
> > in the next version.
> >
> 
> I should have said mmu_notifier_test_young() instead of
> mmu_notifier_clear_young().
> 
> > >
> > > BTW have you tested this on a VM?
> >
> > Yes.  Indeed, I'm testing this on a QEMU/KVM environment.  You can get more
> > detail at: https://damonitor.github.io/doc/html/latest/vm/damon/eval.html#setup
> >
> 
> Hmm without mmu_notifier_test_young() you should be missing the kvm
> mmu access updates. Can you please recheck if your eval is correctly
> seeing the memory accesses from the VM?

Seems I didn't clearly answered, sorry.  My test setup installs the
DAMON-enabled kernel in a guest VM and run it for workloads in the guest,
rather than running DAMON in host to monitor accesses of VMs.  The MMU notifier
is for latter case, AFAIU, so my test setup didn't see the problem.

If I'm missing something, please let me know.


Thanks,
SeongJae Park