[PATCH v2 6/6] mm: hugetlb: support gigantic surplus pages

Huang Shijie shijie.huang at arm.com
Sun Nov 13 23:07:39 PST 2016


When testing the gigantic page whose order is too large for the buddy
allocator, the libhugetlbfs test case "counter.sh" will fail.

The failure is caused by:
 1) kernel fails to allocate a gigantic page for the surplus case.
    And the gather_surplus_pages() will return NULL in the end.

 2) The condition checks for "over-commit" is wrong.

This patch uses __hugetlb_alloc_gigantic_page() to allocate the
gigantic page in the __alloc_huge_page(). After this patch,
 gather_surplus_pages() can return a gigantic page for the surplus case.

This patch also changes the condition checks for:
     return_unused_surplus_pages()
     nr_overcommit_hugepages_store()
     hugetlb_overcommit_handler()

After this patch, the counter.sh can pass for the gigantic page.

Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie.huang at arm.com>
---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 58a59f0..08e66ca 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1647,7 +1647,7 @@ static struct page *__alloc_huge_page(struct hstate *h,
 	struct page *page;
 	unsigned int r_nid;
 
-	if (hstate_is_gigantic(h))
+	if (hstate_is_gigantic(h) && !gigantic_page_supported())
 		return NULL;
 
 	/*
@@ -1692,7 +1692,10 @@ static struct page *__alloc_huge_page(struct hstate *h,
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
 
-	page = __hugetlb_alloc_buddy_huge_page(h, vma, addr, nid);
+	if (hstate_is_gigantic(h))
+		page = __hugetlb_alloc_gigantic_page(h, vma, addr, nid);
+	else
+		page = __hugetlb_alloc_buddy_huge_page(h, vma, addr, nid);
 
 	spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
 	if (page) {
@@ -1859,8 +1862,7 @@ static void return_unused_surplus_pages(struct hstate *h,
 	/* Uncommit the reservation */
 	h->resv_huge_pages -= unused_resv_pages;
 
-	/* Cannot return gigantic pages currently */
-	if (hstate_is_gigantic(h))
+	if (hstate_is_gigantic(h) && !gigantic_page_supported())
 		return;
 
 	nr_pages = min(unused_resv_pages, h->surplus_huge_pages);
@@ -2577,7 +2579,7 @@ static ssize_t nr_overcommit_hugepages_store(struct kobject *kobj,
 	unsigned long input;
 	struct hstate *h = kobj_to_hstate(kobj, NULL);
 
-	if (hstate_is_gigantic(h))
+	if (hstate_is_gigantic(h) && !gigantic_page_supported())
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	err = kstrtoul(buf, 10, &input);
@@ -3018,7 +3020,7 @@ int hugetlb_overcommit_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 
 	tmp = h->nr_overcommit_huge_pages;
 
-	if (write && hstate_is_gigantic(h))
+	if (write && hstate_is_gigantic(h) && !gigantic_page_supported())
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	table->data = &tmp;
-- 
2.5.5




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