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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2013-12-18 17:08:42 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-12-18 19:04:51 -0800
commitde466bd628e8d663fdf3f791bc8db318ee85c714 (patch)
treea7f9cc6ab09cbdbce981b974c8ec238f6c3e1524 /mm/huge_memory.c
parent1667918b6483b12a6496bf54151b827b8235d7b1 (diff)
mm: numa: avoid unnecessary disruption of NUMA hinting during migration
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> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/huge_memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/huge_memory.c22
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 70e7429fd8e..7de1bf85f68 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -882,6 +882,10 @@ 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_ptl);
@@ -1299,6 +1303,17 @@ 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(ptl);
+ wait_migrate_huge_page(vma->anon_vma, pmdp);
+ goto out;
+ }
+
page = pmd_page(pmd);
BUG_ON(is_huge_zero_page(page));
page_nid = page_to_nid(page);
@@ -1329,12 +1344,7 @@ 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(ptl);
wait_on_page_locked(page);