On Tue 12-02-19 10:34:54, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Transparent Huge Pages are currently stored in i_pages as pointers to
> consecutive subpages.  This patch changes that to storing consecutive
> pointers to the head page in preparation for storing huge pages more
> efficiently in i_pages.
> 
> Large parts of this are "inspired" by Kirill's patch
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>

I like the idea!

> @@ -1778,33 +1767,27 @@ unsigned find_get_pages_range(struct address_space 
> *mapping, pgoff_t *start,
>  
>       rcu_read_lock();
>       xas_for_each(&xas, page, end) {
> -             struct page *head;
>               if (xas_retry(&xas, page))
>                       continue;
>               /* Skip over shadow, swap and DAX entries */
>               if (xa_is_value(page))
>                       continue;
>  
> -             head = compound_head(page);
> -             if (!page_cache_get_speculative(head))
> +             if (!page_cache_get_speculative(page))
>                       goto retry;
>  
> -             /* The page was split under us? */
> -             if (compound_head(page) != head)
> -                     goto put_page;
> -
> -             /* Has the page moved? */
> +             /* Has the page moved or been split? */
>               if (unlikely(page != xas_reload(&xas)))
>                       goto put_page;
>  
> -             pages[ret] = page;
> +             pages[ret] = find_subpage(page, xas.xa_index);
>               if (++ret == nr_pages) {
>                       *start = page->index + 1;
>                       goto out;
>               }

So this subtly changes the behavior because now we will be returning in
'*start' a different index. So you should rather use 'pages[ret]->index'
instead.

> @@ -1923,26 +1899,21 @@ unsigned find_get_pages_range_tag(struct 
> address_space *mapping, pgoff_t *index,
>               if (xa_is_value(page))
>                       continue;
>  
> -             head = compound_head(page);
> -             if (!page_cache_get_speculative(head))
> +             if (!page_cache_get_speculative(page))
>                       goto retry;
>  
> -             /* The page was split under us? */
> -             if (compound_head(page) != head)
> -                     goto put_page;
> -
> -             /* Has the page moved? */
> +             /* Has the page moved or been split? */
>               if (unlikely(page != xas_reload(&xas)))
>                       goto put_page;
>  
> -             pages[ret] = page;
> +             pages[ret] = find_subpage(page, xas.xa_index);
>               if (++ret == nr_pages) {
>                       *index = page->index + 1;
>                       goto out;
>               }

Ditto here.

Otherwise the patch looks good to me so feel free to add:

Acked-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>

after fixing these two.

                                                                Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <[email protected]>
SUSE Labs, CR

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