On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 10:33 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Litke
> >>Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 5:59 AM
> >>To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> >>Cc: ADAM G. LITKE [imap]
> >>Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3 htlb-fault] Demand faulting for hugetlb
> 
> >>+retry:
> >>+   page = find_get_page(mapping, idx);
> >>+   if (!page) {
> >>+           /* charge the fs quota first */
> >>+           if (hugetlb_get_quota(mapping)) {
> >>+                   ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
> >>+                   goto out;
> >>+           }
> >>+           page = alloc_huge_page();
> >>+           if (!page) {
> >>+                   hugetlb_put_quota(mapping);
> >>+                   ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
> >>+                   goto out;
> >>+           }
> >>+           if (add_to_page_cache(page, mapping, idx, GFP_ATOMIC)) {
> 
> Here you lost hugetlb_put_quota(mapping);

Whoops, thanks for catching that.

> >>+                   put_page(page);
> >>+                   goto retry;
> >>+           }
> >>+           unlock_page(page);
> 
> As for regular pages, kernel is used to unlock mm-> page_table_lock
> before find_get_page and relock it before setting pte. Why isn't the
> style followed by huge page fault?

As far as I can tell, we should be able to do that for large pages as
well.  I'll give it a spin.

-- 
Adam Litke - (agl at us.ibm.com)
IBM Linux Technology Center

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