Alex Thorlton wrote:
> +     /*
> +      * now that we've done the accounting work, we check to see if
> +      * we've exceeded our threshold
> +      */
> +     if (temp_thp->ref_count >= mm->thp_threshold) {
> +             pmd_t pmd_entry;
> +             pgtable_t pgtable;
> +
> +             /*
> +              * we'll do all of the following beneath the big ptl for now
> +              * this will need to be modified to work with the split ptl
> +              */
> +             spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> +
> +             /*
> +              * once we get past the lock we have to make sure that somebody
> +              * else hasn't already turned this guy into a THP, if they have,
> +              * then the page we need is already faulted in as part of the 
> THP
> +              * they created
> +              */
> +             if (PageTransHuge(temp_thp->page)) {
> +                     spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> +                     return 0;
> +             }
> +
> +             pgtable = pte_alloc_one(mm, haddr);
> +             if (unlikely(!pgtable)) {
> +                     spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> +                     return VM_FAULT_OOM;
> +             }
> +
> +             /* might wanna move this? */
> +             __SetPageUptodate(temp_thp->page);
> +
> +             /* turn the pages into one compound page */
> +             make_compound_page(temp_thp->page, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
> +
> +             /* set up the pmd */
> +             pmd_entry = mk_huge_pmd(temp_thp->page, vma->vm_page_prot);
> +             pmd_entry = maybe_pmd_mkwrite(pmd_mkdirty(pmd_entry), vma);
> +
> +             /* remap the new page since we cleared the mappings */
> +             page_add_anon_rmap(temp_thp->page, vma, address);
> +
> +             /* deposit the thp */
> +             pgtable_trans_huge_deposit(mm, pmd, pgtable);
> +
> +             set_pmd_at(mm, haddr, pmd, pmd_entry);
> +             add_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES, HPAGE_PMD_NR - 
> mm->thp_threshold + 1);
> +             /* mm->nr_ptes++; */
> +
> +             /* delete the reference to this compound page from our list */
> +             spin_lock(&mm->thp_list_lock);
> +             list_del(&temp_thp->list);
> +             spin_unlock(&mm->thp_list_lock);
> +
> +             spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> +             return 0;

Hm. I think this part is not correct: you collapse temp thp page
into real one only for current procees. What will happen if a process with
temp thp pages was forked?

And I don't think this problem is an easy one. khugepaged can't collapse
pages with page->_count != 1 for the same reason: to make it properly you
need to take mmap_sem for all processes and collapse all pages at once.
And if a page is pinned, we also can't collapse.

Sorry, I don't think the whole idea has much potential. :(

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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