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>
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 70e7429..7de1bf8 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -882,6 +882,10 @@
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 @@
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 @@
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);
