Re: [PATCH 1/8] mm: introduce PageHuge() for testing huge/giganticpages

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri May 08 2009 - 07:41:02 EST



* Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Introduce PageHuge(), which identifies huge/gigantic pages
> by their dedicated compound destructor functions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/mm.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +-
> mm/page_alloc.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> --- linux.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ linux/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -299,13 +299,22 @@ void prep_compound_page(struct page *pag
> }
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLBFS
> +/*
> + * This (duplicated) destructor function distinguishes gigantic pages from
> + * normal compound pages.
> + */
> +void free_gigantic_page(struct page *page)
> +{
> + __free_pages_ok(page, compound_order(page));
> +}
> +
> void prep_compound_gigantic_page(struct page *page, unsigned long order)
> {
> int i;
> int nr_pages = 1 << order;
> struct page *p = page + 1;
>
> - set_compound_page_dtor(page, free_compound_page);
> + set_compound_page_dtor(page, free_gigantic_page);
> set_compound_order(page, order);
> __SetPageHead(page);
> for (i = 1; i < nr_pages; i++, p = mem_map_next(p, page, i)) {
> --- linux.orig/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ linux/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ struct hstate *size_to_hstate(unsigned l
> return NULL;
> }
>
> -static void free_huge_page(struct page *page)
> +void free_huge_page(struct page *page)
> {
> /*
> * Can't pass hstate in here because it is called from the
> --- linux.orig/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ linux/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -355,6 +355,30 @@ static inline void set_compound_order(st
> page[1].lru.prev = (void *)order;
> }
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLBFS
> +void free_huge_page(struct page *page);
> +void free_gigantic_page(struct page *page);
> +
> +static inline int PageHuge(struct page *page)
> +{
> + compound_page_dtor *dtor;
> +
> + if (!PageCompound(page))
> + return 0;
> +
> + page = compound_head(page);
> + dtor = get_compound_page_dtor(page);
> +
> + return dtor == free_huge_page ||
> + dtor == free_gigantic_page;
> +}

Hm, this function is _way_ too large to be inlined.

Ingo
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