Re: [PATCH 3/5] mm: thp: split huge page to any lower order pages.

Hi,

I'm working to enable large, variable-order folios for anonymous memory (see RFC, replete with bugs at [1]). This patch set is going to be very useful to me. But I have a few questions that I wonder if you can answer, below? I wonder if they might relate to the bugs I'm seeing at [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230317105802.2634004-1-ryan.roberts@arm.c...

On 21/03/2023 00:48, Zi Yan wrote:

From: Zi Yan ziy@nvidia.com

To split a THP to any lower order pages, we need to reform THPs on subpages at given order and add page refcount based on the new page order. Also we need to reinitialize page_deferred_list after removing the page from the split_queue, otherwise a subsequent split will see list corruption when checking the page_deferred_list again.

It has many uses, like minimizing the number of pages after truncating a huge pagecache page. For anonymous THPs, we can only split them to order-0 like before until we add support for any size anonymous THPs.

Signed-off-by: Zi Yan ziy@nvidia.com

include/linux/huge_mm.h | 10 ++-- mm/huge_memory.c | 103 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 2 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h index 20284387b841..32c91e1b59cd 100644 --- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h +++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h @@ -147,10 +147,11 @@ void prep_transhuge_page(struct page *page); void free_transhuge_page(struct page *page); bool can_split_folio(struct folio *folio, int *pextra_pins); -int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct list_head *list); +int split_huge_page_to_list_to_order(struct page *page, struct list_head *list,

• unsigned int new_order);
  

static inline int split_huge_page(struct page *page) {

• return split_huge_page_to_list(page, NULL);

• return split_huge_page_to_list_to_order(page, NULL, 0);

} void deferred_split_folio(struct folio *folio); @@ -297,7 +298,8 @@ can_split_folio(struct folio *folio, int *pextra_pins) return false; } static inline int -split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct list_head *list) +split_huge_page_to_list_to_order(struct page *page, struct list_head *list,

• unsigned int new_order)
  

{ return 0; } @@ -397,7 +399,7 @@ static inline bool thp_migration_supported(void) static inline int split_folio_to_list(struct folio *folio, struct list_head *list) {

• return split_huge_page_to_list(&folio->page, list);

• return split_huge_page_to_list_to_order(&folio->page, list, 0);

} static inline int split_folio(struct folio *folio) diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index 710189885402..f119b9be33f2 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -2359,11 +2359,13 @@ void vma_adjust_trans_huge(struct vm_area_struct *vma, static void unmap_folio(struct folio *folio) {

• enum ttu_flags ttu_flags = TTU_RMAP_LOCKED | TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD |

• TTU_SYNC;
  

• enum ttu_flags ttu_flags = TTU_RMAP_LOCKED | TTU_SYNC;

VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_large(folio), folio);

• if (folio_order(folio) >= HPAGE_PMD_ORDER)

• ttu_flags |= TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD;
  

Why have you changed the code so that this flag is added conditionally on the folio being large enough? I've previously looked at this in the context of my bug, and concluded that the consumer would ignore the flag if the folio wasn't PMD mapped. Did I conclude incorrectly?

/* * Anon pages need migration entries to preserve them, but file * pages can simply be left unmapped, then faulted back on demand. @@ -2395,7 +2397,6 @@ static void lru_add_page_tail(struct page *head, struct page *tail, struct lruvec *lruvec, struct list_head *list) { VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead(head), head);

• VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageCompound(tail), head); VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(tail), head); lockdep_assert_held(&lruvec->lru_lock);

@@ -2416,9 +2417,10 @@ static void lru_add_page_tail(struct page *head, struct page *tail, }

[...]

-int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct list_head *list) +int split_huge_page_to_list_to_order(struct page *page, struct list_head *list,

• 		     unsigned int new_order)
  

{ struct folio *folio = page_folio(page); struct deferred_split *ds_queue = get_deferred_split_queue(folio);

• XA_STATE(xas, &folio->mapping->i_pages, folio->index);

• /* reset xarray order to new order after split */
• XA_STATE_ORDER(xas, &folio->mapping->i_pages, folio->index, new_order); struct anon_vma *anon_vma = NULL; struct address_space *mapping = NULL; int extra_pins, ret;

@@ -2649,6 +2676,18 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct list_head *list) VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_locked(folio), folio); VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_large(folio), folio);

• /* Cannot split THP to order-1 (no order-1 THPs) */
• if (new_order == 1) {

• VM_WARN_ONCE(1, "Cannot split to order-1 folio");
  

• return -EINVAL;
  

• }

Why can't you split to order-1? I vaguely understand that some data is kept in the first 3 struct pages, but I would naively expect the allocator to fail to allocate compound pages of order-1 if it was a problem? My large anon folios patch is currently allocating order-1 in some circumstances. Perhaps its related to my bug?

• /* Split anonymous folio to non-zero order not support */
• if (folio_test_anon(folio) && new_order) {

• VM_WARN_ONCE(1, "Split anon folio to non-0 order not support");
  

• return -EINVAL;
  

• }

Why don't you support this? What is special about anon folios that means this code doesn't work for them?

Thanks, Ryan

• is_hzp = is_huge_zero_page(&folio->page); VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO(is_hzp, folio); if (is_hzp)

@@ -2744,7 +2783,13 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct list_head *list) if (folio_ref_freeze(folio, 1 + extra_pins)) { if (!list_empty(&folio->_deferred_list)) { ds_queue->split_queue_len--;

• 	list_del(&folio->_deferred_list);
  

• 	/*
  

• 	 * Reinitialize page_deferred_list after removing the
  

• 	 * page from the split_queue, otherwise a subsequent
  

• 	 * split will see list corruption when checking the
  

• 	 * page_deferred_list.
  

• 	 */
  

• 	list_del_init(&folio->_deferred_list);
  

  } spin_unlock(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock); if (mapping) {

@@ -2754,14 +2799,18 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct list_head *list) if (folio_test_swapbacked(folio)) { __lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_SHMEM_THPS, -nr);

• 	} else {
  

• 	} else if (!new_order) {
  

• 		/*
  

• 		 * Decrease THP stats only if split to normal
  

• 		 * pages
  

• 		 */
  	__lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_FILE_THPS,
  				-nr);
  	filemap_nr_thps_dec(mapping);
  }
  

  }

• __split_huge_page(page, list, end);
  

• __split_huge_page(page, list, end, new_order);
  

  ret = 0; } else { spin_unlock(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock);