[CCing people involved in 24669e58477e2]
On Fri 31-10-14 12:22:12, Hillf Danton wrote:
> First, after flushing TLB, we have no need to scan pte from start again.
> Second, before bail out loop, the address is forwarded one step.
I can imagine a more comprehensive wording here. It is not immediately
clear whether this is just an optimization or a bug fix as well
(especially the second part).
Anyway the optimization looks good to me.
> Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <hillf...@alibaba-inc.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.cz>
> ---
>
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c Fri Oct 31 11:47:25 2014
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c Fri Oct 31 11:52:42 2014
> @@ -2641,8 +2641,9 @@ void __unmap_hugepage_range(struct mmu_g
>
> tlb_start_vma(tlb, vma);
> mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);
> + address = start;
> again:
> - for (address = start; address < end; address += sz) {
> + for (; address < end; address += sz) {
> ptep = huge_pte_offset(mm, address);
> if (!ptep)
> continue;
> @@ -2689,6 +2690,7 @@ again:
> page_remove_rmap(page);
> force_flush = !__tlb_remove_page(tlb, page);
> if (force_flush) {
> + address += sz;
> spin_unlock(ptl);
> break;
> }
> --
>
>
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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