On 10/20/2015 09:53 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com>
>
> I have a hugetlbfs user which is never explicitly allocating huge pages
> with 'nr_hugepages'. They only set 'nr_overcommit_hugepages' and then let
> the pages be allocated from the buddy allocator at fault time.
>
> This works, but they noticed that mbind() was not doing them any good and
> the pages were being allocated without respect for the policy they
> specified.
>
> The code in question is this:
>
>> struct page *alloc_huge_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> ...
>> page = dequeue_huge_page_vma(h, vma, addr, avoid_reserve, gbl_chg);
>> if (!page) {
>> page = alloc_buddy_huge_page(h, NUMA_NO_NODE);
>
> dequeue_huge_page_vma() is smart and will respect the VMA's memory policy.
> But, it only grabs _existing_ huge pages from the huge page pool. If the
> pool is empty, we fall back to alloc_buddy_huge_page() which obviously
> can't do anything with the VMA's policy because it isn't even passed the
> VMA.
>
> Almost everybody preallocates huge pages. That's probably why nobody has
> ever noticed this. Looking back at the git history, I don't think this
> _ever_ worked from when alloc_buddy_huge_page() was introduced in 7893d1d5,
> 8 years ago.
>
> The fix is to pass vma/addr down in to the places where we actually call in
> to the buddy allocator. It's fairly straightforward plumbing. This has
> been lightly tested.
>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horigu...@ah.jp.nec.com>
> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.krav...@oracle.com>
> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf...@alibaba-inc.com>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
> Cc: linux...@kvack.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com>
Together with the fix and NUMA=n cleanup
Acked=by: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz>
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