[PATCH V5 1/3] mm: Add get_user_pages_cma_migrate
Aneesh Kumar K.V
aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com
Wed Dec 19 14:40:45 AEDT 2018
This helper does a get_user_pages_fast and if it find pages in the CMA area
it will try to migrate them before taking page reference. This makes sure that
we don't keep non-movable pages (due to page reference count) in the CMA area.
Not able to move pages out of CMA area result in CMA allocation failures.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>
---
include/linux/hugetlb.h | 2 +
include/linux/migrate.h | 3 +
mm/hugetlb.c | 4 +-
mm/migrate.c | 139 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 146 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index 087fd5f48c91..1eed0cdaec0e 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -371,6 +371,8 @@ struct page *alloc_huge_page_nodemask(struct hstate *h, int preferred_nid,
nodemask_t *nmask);
struct page *alloc_huge_page_vma(struct hstate *h, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long address);
+struct page *alloc_migrate_huge_page(struct hstate *h, gfp_t gfp_mask,
+ int nid, nodemask_t *nmask);
int huge_add_to_page_cache(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
pgoff_t idx);
diff --git a/include/linux/migrate.h b/include/linux/migrate.h
index f2b4abbca55e..d82b35afd2eb 100644
--- a/include/linux/migrate.h
+++ b/include/linux/migrate.h
@@ -286,6 +286,9 @@ static inline int migrate_vma(const struct migrate_vma_ops *ops,
}
#endif /* IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MIGRATE_VMA_HELPER) */
+extern int get_user_pages_cma_migrate(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
+ struct page **pages);
+
#endif /* CONFIG_MIGRATION */
#endif /* _LINUX_MIGRATE_H */
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 7f2a28ab46d5..faf3102ae45e 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1585,8 +1585,8 @@ static struct page *alloc_surplus_huge_page(struct hstate *h, gfp_t gfp_mask,
return page;
}
-static struct page *alloc_migrate_huge_page(struct hstate *h, gfp_t gfp_mask,
- int nid, nodemask_t *nmask)
+struct page *alloc_migrate_huge_page(struct hstate *h, gfp_t gfp_mask,
+ int nid, nodemask_t *nmask)
{
struct page *page;
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index f7e4bfdc13b7..d564558fba03 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -2946,3 +2946,142 @@ int migrate_vma(const struct migrate_vma_ops *ops,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(migrate_vma);
#endif /* defined(MIGRATE_VMA_HELPER) */
+
+static struct page *new_non_cma_page(struct page *page, unsigned long private)
+{
+ /*
+ * We want to make sure we allocate the new page from the same node
+ * as the source page.
+ */
+ int nid = page_to_nid(page);
+ /*
+ * Trying to allocate a page for migration. Ignore allocation
+ * failure warnings
+ */
+ gfp_t gfp_mask = GFP_USER | __GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NOWARN;
+
+ if (PageHighMem(page))
+ gfp_mask |= __GFP_HIGHMEM;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
+ if (PageHuge(page)) {
+ struct hstate *h = page_hstate(page);
+ /*
+ * We don't want to dequeue from the pool because pool pages will
+ * mostly be from the CMA region.
+ */
+ return alloc_migrate_huge_page(h, gfp_mask, nid, NULL);
+ }
+#endif
+ if (PageTransHuge(page)) {
+ struct page *thp;
+ /*
+ * ignore allocation failure warnings
+ */
+ gfp_t thp_gfpmask = GFP_TRANSHUGE | __GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NOWARN;
+
+ /*
+ * Remove the movable mask so that we don't allocate from
+ * CMA area again.
+ */
+ thp_gfpmask &= ~__GFP_MOVABLE;
+ thp = __alloc_pages_node(nid, thp_gfpmask, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
+ if (!thp)
+ return NULL;
+ prep_transhuge_page(thp);
+ return thp;
+ }
+
+ return __alloc_pages_node(nid, gfp_mask, 0);
+}
+
+/**
+ * get_user_pages_cma_migrate() - pin user pages in memory by migrating pages in CMA region
+ * @start: starting user address
+ * @nr_pages: number of pages from start to pin
+ * @write: whether pages will be written to
+ * @pages: array that receives pointers to the pages pinned.
+ * Should be at least nr_pages long.
+ *
+ * Attempt to pin user pages in memory without taking mm->mmap_sem.
+ * If not successful, it will fall back to taking the lock and
+ * calling get_user_pages().
+ *
+ * If the pinned pages are backed by CMA region, we migrate those pages out,
+ * allocating new pages from non-CMA region. This helps in avoiding keeping
+ * pages pinned in the CMA region for a long time thereby resulting in
+ * CMA allocation failures.
+ *
+ * Returns number of pages pinned. This may be fewer than the number
+ * requested. If nr_pages is 0 or negative, returns 0. If no pages
+ * were pinned, returns -errno.
+ */
+
+int get_user_pages_cma_migrate(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
+ struct page **pages)
+{
+ int i, ret;
+ bool drain_allow = true;
+ bool migrate_allow = true;
+ LIST_HEAD(cma_page_list);
+
+get_user_again:
+ ret = get_user_pages_fast(start, nr_pages, write, pages);
+ if (ret <= 0)
+ return ret;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < ret; ++i) {
+ /*
+ * If we get a page from the CMA zone, since we are going to
+ * be pinning these entries, we might as well move them out
+ * of the CMA zone if possible.
+ */
+ if (is_migrate_cma_page(pages[i]) && migrate_allow) {
+
+ struct page *head = compound_head(pages[i]);
+
+ if (PageHuge(head))
+ isolate_huge_page(head, &cma_page_list);
+ else {
+ if (!PageLRU(head) && drain_allow) {
+ lru_add_drain_all();
+ drain_allow = false;
+ }
+
+ if (!isolate_lru_page(head)) {
+ list_add_tail(&head->lru, &cma_page_list);
+ mod_node_page_state(page_pgdat(head),
+ NR_ISOLATED_ANON +
+ page_is_file_cache(head),
+ hpage_nr_pages(head));
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ if (!list_empty(&cma_page_list)) {
+ /*
+ * drop the above get_user_pages reference.
+ */
+ for (i = 0; i < ret; ++i)
+ put_page(pages[i]);
+
+ if (migrate_pages(&cma_page_list, new_non_cma_page,
+ NULL, 0, MIGRATE_SYNC, MR_CONTIG_RANGE)) {
+ /*
+ * some of the pages failed migration. Do get_user_pages
+ * without migration.
+ */
+ migrate_allow = false;
+
+ if (!list_empty(&cma_page_list))
+ putback_movable_pages(&cma_page_list);
+ }
+ /*
+ * We did migrate all the pages, Try to get the page references again
+ * migrating any new CMA pages which we failed to isolate earlier.
+ */
+ drain_allow = true;
+ goto get_user_again;
+ }
+ return ret;
+}
--
2.19.2
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