Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: pvmw: check possible huge PMD map by transhuge_vma_suitable()

[Yang Shi]

On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 8:30 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 10:45:51AM -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> > IIUC PVMW checks if the vma is possibly huge PMD mapped by
> > transparent_hugepage_active() and "pvmw->nr_pages >= HPAGE_PMD_NR".
> >
> > Actually pvmw->nr_pages is returned by compound_nr() or
> > folio_nr_pages(), so the page should be THP as long as "pvmw->nr_pages
> > >= HPAGE_PMD_NR".  And it is guaranteed THP is allocated for valid VMA
> > in the first place.  But it may be not PMD mapped if the VMA is file
> > VMA and it is not properly aligned.  The transhuge_vma_suitable()
> > is used to do such check, so replace transparent_hugepage_active() to
> > it, which is too heavy and overkilling.
> >
> > Fixes: 2aff7a4755be ("mm: Convert page_vma_mapped_walk to work on PFNs")
>
> I think Fixes is a bit much.  There's no bug being fixed here.  This is
> just an optimisation.  Is it an important optimisation?  We could put a

Yeah, it is just an optimization, will remove the fix tag.

I'm trying to do some cleanup for all the transhuge_page_* checks
suggested by Vlastimil. I should be able to kill
transparent_hugepage_active() by replacing it with
transhuge_vma_suitable() here.

> bool into page_vma_mapped_walk() so we only have to ask the page whether
> it's PMD-mappable once per walk rather than for each VMA.

The page may be PMD-mappable for one VMA, but not for the other VMA.

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