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[v2,4/5] mm/thp: allow drop THP from page cache

Message ID 20191017164223.2762148-5-songliubraving@fb.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Fixes for THP in page cache | expand

Commit Message

Song Liu Oct. 17, 2019, 4:42 p.m. UTC
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

Once a THP is added to the page cache, it cannot be dropped via
/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. Fix this issue with proper handling in
invalidate_mapping_pages().

Fixes: 99cb0dbd47a1 ("mm,thp: add read-only THP support for (non-shmem) FS")
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
---
 mm/truncate.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

Comments

Yang Shi Oct. 17, 2019, 9:46 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 9:42 AM Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> wrote:
>
> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
>
> Once a THP is added to the page cache, it cannot be dropped via
> /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. Fix this issue with proper handling in
> invalidate_mapping_pages().
>
> Fixes: 99cb0dbd47a1 ("mm,thp: add read-only THP support for (non-shmem) FS")
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Tested-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
> ---
>  mm/truncate.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
> index 8563339041f6..dd9ebc1da356 100644
> --- a/mm/truncate.c
> +++ b/mm/truncate.c
> @@ -592,6 +592,16 @@ unsigned long invalidate_mapping_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
>                                         unlock_page(page);
>                                         continue;
>                                 }
> +
> +                               /* Take a pin outside pagevec */
> +                               get_page(page);
> +
> +                               /*
> +                                * Drop extra pins before trying to invalidate
> +                                * the huge page.
> +                                */
> +                               pagevec_remove_exceptionals(&pvec);
> +                               pagevec_release(&pvec);

Shall we skip the outer pagevec_remove_exceptions() if it has been done here?

>                         }
>
>                         ret = invalidate_inode_page(page);
> @@ -602,6 +612,8 @@ unsigned long invalidate_mapping_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
>                          */
>                         if (!ret)
>                                 deactivate_file_page(page);
> +                       if (PageTransHuge(page))
> +                               put_page(page);
>                         count += ret;
>                 }
>                 pagevec_remove_exceptionals(&pvec);
> --
> 2.17.1
>
>
Kirill A . Shutemov Oct. 18, 2019, 1:32 p.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 02:46:38PM -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 9:42 AM Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> >
> > Once a THP is added to the page cache, it cannot be dropped via
> > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. Fix this issue with proper handling in
> > invalidate_mapping_pages().
> >
> > Fixes: 99cb0dbd47a1 ("mm,thp: add read-only THP support for (non-shmem) FS")
> > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> > Tested-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
> > ---
> >  mm/truncate.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
> > index 8563339041f6..dd9ebc1da356 100644
> > --- a/mm/truncate.c
> > +++ b/mm/truncate.c
> > @@ -592,6 +592,16 @@ unsigned long invalidate_mapping_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
> >                                         unlock_page(page);
> >                                         continue;
> >                                 }
> > +
> > +                               /* Take a pin outside pagevec */
> > +                               get_page(page);
> > +
> > +                               /*
> > +                                * Drop extra pins before trying to invalidate
> > +                                * the huge page.
> > +                                */
> > +                               pagevec_remove_exceptionals(&pvec);
> > +                               pagevec_release(&pvec);
> 
> Shall we skip the outer pagevec_remove_exceptions() if it has been done here?

It will be NOP and skipping would complicate the code.
Yang Shi Oct. 18, 2019, 9:54 p.m. UTC | #3
On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 6:32 AM Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 02:46:38PM -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 9:42 AM Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> > >
> > > Once a THP is added to the page cache, it cannot be dropped via
> > > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. Fix this issue with proper handling in
> > > invalidate_mapping_pages().
> > >
> > > Fixes: 99cb0dbd47a1 ("mm,thp: add read-only THP support for (non-shmem) FS")
> > > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> > > Tested-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
> > > ---
> > >  mm/truncate.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
> > > index 8563339041f6..dd9ebc1da356 100644
> > > --- a/mm/truncate.c
> > > +++ b/mm/truncate.c
> > > @@ -592,6 +592,16 @@ unsigned long invalidate_mapping_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
> > >                                         unlock_page(page);
> > >                                         continue;
> > >                                 }
> > > +
> > > +                               /* Take a pin outside pagevec */
> > > +                               get_page(page);
> > > +
> > > +                               /*
> > > +                                * Drop extra pins before trying to invalidate
> > > +                                * the huge page.
> > > +                                */
> > > +                               pagevec_remove_exceptionals(&pvec);
> > > +                               pagevec_release(&pvec);
> >
> > Shall we skip the outer pagevec_remove_exceptions() if it has been done here?
>
> It will be NOP and skipping would complicate the code.

Yes, it would be. Anyway, it looks ok too. Acked-by: Yang Shi
<yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>

>
> --
>  Kirill A. Shutemov
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Patch

diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
index 8563339041f6..dd9ebc1da356 100644
--- a/mm/truncate.c
+++ b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -592,6 +592,16 @@  unsigned long invalidate_mapping_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 					unlock_page(page);
 					continue;
 				}
+
+				/* Take a pin outside pagevec */
+				get_page(page);
+
+				/*
+				 * Drop extra pins before trying to invalidate
+				 * the huge page.
+				 */
+				pagevec_remove_exceptionals(&pvec);
+				pagevec_release(&pvec);
 			}
 
 			ret = invalidate_inode_page(page);
@@ -602,6 +612,8 @@  unsigned long invalidate_mapping_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 			 */
 			if (!ret)
 				deactivate_file_page(page);
+			if (PageTransHuge(page))
+				put_page(page);
 			count += ret;
 		}
 		pagevec_remove_exceptionals(&pvec);