Hi,
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 08:03:54PM -0700, Huang, Ying wrote:
> From: Huang Ying <ying.hu...@intel.com>
>
> madvise_free_huge_pmd should return 0 if the fallback PTE operations are
> required. In madvise_free_huge_pmd, if part pages of THP are discarded,
> the THP will be split and fallback PTE operations should be used if
> splitting succeeds. But the original code will make fallback PTE
> operations skipped, after splitting succeeds. Fix that via make
> madvise_free_huge_pmd return 0 after splitting successfully, so that the
> fallback PTE operations will be done.
You're right. Thanks!
>
> Know issues: if my understanding were correct, return 1 from
> madvise_free_huge_pmd means the following processing for the PMD should
> be skipped, while return 0 means the following processing is still
> needed. So the function should return 0 only if the THP is split
> successfully or the PMD is not trans huge. But the pmd_trans_unstable
> after madvise_free_huge_pmd guarantee the following processing will be
> skipped for huge PMD. So current code can run properly. But if my
> understanding were correct, we can clean up return code of
> madvise_free_huge_pmd accordingly.
I like your clean up. Just a minor comment below.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.hu...@intel.com>
> ---
> mm/huge_memory.c | 7 +------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> index 2ad52d5..64dc95d 100644
> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
First of all, let's change ret from int to bool.
And then, add description in the function entry.
/*
* Return true if we do MADV_FREE successfully on entire pmd page.
* Otherwise, return false.
*/
And do not set to 1 if it is huge_zero_pmd but just goto out to
return false.
Thanks!
> @@ -1655,14 +1655,9 @@ int madvise_free_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
> struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> if (next - addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) {
> get_page(page);
> spin_unlock(ptl);
> - if (split_huge_page(page)) {
> - put_page(page);
> - unlock_page(page);
> - goto out_unlocked;
> - }
> + split_huge_page(page);
> put_page(page);
> unlock_page(page);
> - ret = 1;
> goto out_unlocked;
> }
>
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