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SubjectRe: Suspicious error for CMA stress test
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On 2016/3/17 23:31, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
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>>> I may find that there is a bug which was introduced by me some time
>>> ago. Could you test following change in __free_one_page() on top of
>>> Vlastimil's patch?
>>>
>>> -page_idx = pfn & ((1 << max_order) - 1);
>>> +page_idx = pfn & ((1 << MAX_ORDER) - 1);
>> I tested Vlastimil's patch + your change with stress for more than half hour, the bug
>> I reported is gone :)
> Good to hear!
>
>> I have some questions, Joonsoo, you provided a patch as following:
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
>> index 3a7a67b..952a8a3 100644
>> --- a/mm/cma.c
>> +++ b/mm/cma.c
>> @@ -448,7 +448,10 @@ bool cma_release(struct cma *cma, const struct page *pages, unsigned int count)
>>
>> VM_BUG_ON(pfn + count > cma->base_pfn + cma->count);
>>
>> + mutex_lock(&cma_mutex);
>> free_contig_range(pfn, count);
>> + mutex_unlock(&cma_mutex);
>> +
>> cma_clear_bitmap(cma, pfn, count);
>> trace_cma_release(pfn, pages, count);
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
>> index 7f32950..68ed5ae 100644
>> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
>> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
>> @@ -1559,7 +1559,8 @@ void free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, bool cold)
>> * excessively into the page allocator
>> */
>> if (migratetype >= MIGRATE_PCPTYPES) {
>> - if (unlikely(is_migrate_isolate(migratetype))) {
>> + if (is_migrate_cma(migratetype) ||
>> + unlikely(is_migrate_isolate(migratetype))) {
>> free_one_page(zone, page, pfn, 0, migratetype);
>> goto out;
>> }
>>
>> This patch also works to fix the bug, why not just use this one? is there
>> any side effects for this patch? maybe there is performance issue as the
>> mutex lock is used, any other issues?
> The changes in free_hot_cold_page() would cause unacceptable performance
> problem in a big machine, because, with above change, it takes zone->lock
> whenever freeing one page on CMA region.

Thanks for the clarify :)

Hanjun

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