On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 02:24:35PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
The MAP_HUGETLB ("-H" option) of gup_benchmark fails:
$ sudo ./gup_benchmark -H mmap: Invalid argument
This is because gup_benchmark.c is passing in a file descriptor to mmap(), but the fd came from opening up the /dev/zero file. This confuses the mmap syscall implementation, which thinks that, if the caller did not specify MAP_ANONYMOUS, then the file must be a huge page file. So it attempts to verify that the file really is a huge page file, as you can see here:
ksys_mmap_pgoff() { if (!(flags & MAP_ANONYMOUS)) { retval = -EINVAL; if (unlikely(flags & MAP_HUGETLB && !is_file_hugepages(file))) goto out_fput; /* THIS IS WHERE WE END UP */
else if (flags & MAP_HUGETLB) { ...proceed normally, /dev/zero is ok here......and of course is_file_hugepages() returns "false" for the /dev/zero file.
The problem is that the user space program, gup_benchmark.c, really just wants anonymous memory here. The simplest way to get that is to pass MAP_ANONYMOUS whenever MAP_HUGETLB is specified, so that's what this patch does.
This looks wrong, MAP_HUGETLB should only be use to create vma for hugetlbfs. If you want anonymous private vma do not set the MAP_HUGETLB. If you want huge page inside your anonymous vma there is nothing to do at the mmap time, this is the job of the transparent huge page code (THP).
NAK as misleading
Cheers, Jérôme