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SubjectRe: [PATCHv5 18/28] x86, thp: remove infrastructure for handling splitting PMDs
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"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> writes:

> With new refcounting we don't need to mark PMDs splitting. Let's drop
> code to handle this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 9 ---------
> arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 2 --
> arch/x86/mm/gup.c | 13 +------------
> arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 14 --------------
> 4 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 37 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> index f89d6c9943ea..21a2e25a5393 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> @@ -158,11 +158,6 @@ static inline int pmd_large(pmd_t pte)
> }
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> -static inline int pmd_trans_splitting(pmd_t pmd)
> -{
> - return pmd_val(pmd) & _PAGE_SPLITTING;
> -}
> -
> static inline int pmd_trans_huge(pmd_t pmd)
> {
> return pmd_val(pmd) & _PAGE_PSE;
> @@ -792,10 +787,6 @@ extern int pmdp_clear_flush_young(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmdp);
>
>
> -#define __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_SPLITTING_FLUSH
> -extern void pmdp_splitting_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> - unsigned long addr, pmd_t *pmdp);
> -

Can we keep pmdp_splitting_flush or a variant and use that before a
hugepage split ? That is to have a special function to do
pmd_clear before splitting ?. We still depend on a IPI to be send to
other cpus on split and not all archs will do that in
pmdp_clear_flush_notify. I guess we need the ipi to make sure a
local_irq_disable can prevent a parallel split ?

Something like ?

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index cce4604c192f..0a0d00b21f76 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2608,7 +2608,7 @@ static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
young = pmd_young(*pmd);

/* leave pmd empty until pte is filled */
- pmdp_clear_flush_notify(vma, haddr, pmd);
+ pmdp_splitting_clear_flush_notify(vma, haddr, pmd);

pgtable = pgtable_trans_huge_withdraw(mm, pmd);
pmd_populate(mm, &_pmd, pgtable);

-aneesh



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