mm: numa: avoid unnecessary disruption of NUMA hinting during migration
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Tue, 7 Jan 2014 14:00:45 +0000 (14:00 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 9 Jan 2014 20:25:14 +0000 (12:25 -0800)
commit de466bd628e8d663fdf3f791bc8db318ee85c714 upstream.

do_huge_pmd_numa_page() handles the case where there is parallel THP
migration.  However, by the time it is checked the NUMA hinting
information has already been disrupted.  This patch adds an earlier
check with some helpers.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/linux/migrate.h
mm/huge_memory.c
mm/migrate.c

index 8d3c57fdf2213cd21625ea2b5f871462093c0921..804651c62296b808c6714393ccde68e7d6fc00b9 100644 (file)
@@ -90,10 +90,18 @@ static inline int migrate_huge_page_move_mapping(struct address_space *mapping,
 #endif /* CONFIG_MIGRATION */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
-extern int migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, int node);
+extern bool pmd_trans_migrating(pmd_t pmd);
+extern void wait_migrate_huge_page(struct anon_vma *anon_vma, pmd_t *pmd);
 extern int migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, int node);
 extern bool migrate_ratelimited(int node);
 #else
+static inline bool pmd_trans_migrating(pmd_t pmd)
+{
+       return false;
+}
+static inline void wait_migrate_huge_page(struct anon_vma *anon_vma, pmd_t *pmd)
+{
+}
 static inline int migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, int node)
 {
        return -EAGAIN; /* can't migrate now */
index 40f4ceb979fd86dd5fc9826b9fe66bb3c123c55a..47962456ed874e012e3631937baa01cabff2fc71 100644 (file)
@@ -884,6 +884,10 @@ int copy_huge_pmd(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct mm_struct *src_mm,
                ret = 0;
                goto out_unlock;
        }
+
+       /* mmap_sem prevents this happening but warn if that changes */
+       WARN_ON(pmd_trans_migrating(pmd));
+
        if (unlikely(pmd_trans_splitting(pmd))) {
                /* split huge page running from under us */
                spin_unlock(&src_mm->page_table_lock);
@@ -1294,6 +1298,17 @@ int do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
        if (unlikely(!pmd_same(pmd, *pmdp)))
                goto out_unlock;
 
+       /*
+        * If there are potential migrations, wait for completion and retry
+        * without disrupting NUMA hinting information. Do not relock and
+        * check_same as the page may no longer be mapped.
+        */
+       if (unlikely(pmd_trans_migrating(*pmdp))) {
+               spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
+               wait_migrate_huge_page(vma->anon_vma, pmdp);
+               goto out;
+       }
+
        page = pmd_page(pmd);
        page_nid = page_to_nid(page);
        count_vm_numa_event(NUMA_HINT_FAULTS);
@@ -1312,12 +1327,7 @@ int do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
                        goto clear_pmdnuma;
        }
 
-       /*
-        * If there are potential migrations, wait for completion and retry. We
-        * do not relock and check_same as the page may no longer be mapped.
-        * Furtermore, even if the page is currently misplaced, there is no
-        * guarantee it is still misplaced after the migration completes.
-        */
+       /* Migration could have started since the pmd_trans_migrating check */
        if (!page_locked) {
                spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
                wait_on_page_locked(page);
index e33f0d11634401914eee368b1b6af0bdfc8cdba9..6609413b74291d89c4cf6cd05350995b13ca6ee4 100644 (file)
@@ -1597,6 +1597,18 @@ int numamigrate_isolate_page(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct page *page)
        return 1;
 }
 
+bool pmd_trans_migrating(pmd_t pmd)
+{
+       struct page *page = pmd_page(pmd);
+       return PageLocked(page);
+}
+
+void wait_migrate_huge_page(struct anon_vma *anon_vma, pmd_t *pmd)
+{
+       struct page *page = pmd_page(*pmd);
+       wait_on_page_locked(page);
+}
+
 /*
  * Attempt to migrate a misplaced page to the specified destination
  * node. Caller is expected to have an elevated reference count on