Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932266Ab2JZJHp (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Oct 2012 05:07:45 -0400 Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com ([217.140.96.50]:58827 "EHLO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757831Ab2JZJHj (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Oct 2012 05:07:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:07:15 +0100 From: Will Deacon To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , "mhocko@suse.cz" , "peterz@infradead.org" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , Chris Metcalf , Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm: thp: Set the accessed flag for old pages on access fault. Message-ID: <20121026090715.GB20914@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> References: <1351183471-14710-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> <20121026074435.GA871@shutemov.name> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121026074435.GA871@shutemov.name> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2198 Lines: 46 On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 08:44:35AM +0100, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 05:44:31PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > > On x86 memory accesses to pages without the ACCESSED flag set result in the > > ACCESSED flag being set automatically. With the ARM architecture a page access > > fault is raised instead (and it will continue to be raised until the ACCESSED > > flag is set for the appropriate PTE/PMD). > > > > For normal memory pages, handle_pte_fault will call pte_mkyoung (effectively > > setting the ACCESSED flag). For transparent huge pages, pmd_mkyoung will only > > be called for a write fault. > > > > This patch ensures that faults on transparent hugepages which do not result > > in a CoW update the access flags for the faulting pmd. > > > > Cc: Chris Metcalf > > Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov > > Cc: Andrea Arcangeli > > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon > > --- > > > > Ok chaps, I rebased this thing onto today's next (which basically > > necessitated a rewrite) so I've reluctantly dropped my acks and kindly > > ask if you could eyeball the new code, especially where the locking is > > concerned. In the numa code (do_huge_pmd_prot_none), Peter checks again > > that the page is not splitting, but I can't see why that is required. > > In handle_mm_fault() we check if the pmd is under splitting without > page_table_lock. It's kind of speculative cheap check. We need to re-check > if the PMD is really not under splitting after taking page_table_lock. I appreciate the need to check whether the thing is splitting, but I thought that the pmd_same(*pmd, orig_pmd) check after taking the page_table_lock would be sufficient, because we know that the entry hasn't changed and that it wasn't splitting before we took the lock. This also mirrors the approach taken by do_huge_pmd_wp_page. Is there something I'm missing? Cheers, Will -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/