Re: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: bail out unmapping after serving referencepage

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Mar 21 2012 - 17:00:21 EST


On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:12:38 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:05:41 +0800
> Hillf Danton <dhillf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > and a follow-up cleanup also attached.
>
> Please, never put more than one patches in an email - it is rather a
> pain to manually unpick everything.
>
> > When unmapping given VM range, a couple of code duplicate, such as pte_page()
> > and huge_pte_none(), so a cleanup needed to compact them together.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > --- a/mm/hugetlb.c Thu Feb 23 20:13:06 2012
> > +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c Thu Feb 23 20:30:16 2012
> > @@ -2245,16 +2245,23 @@ void __unmap_hugepage_range(struct vm_ar
> > if (huge_pmd_unshare(mm, &address, ptep))
> > continue;
> >
> > + pte = huge_ptep_get(ptep);
> > + if (huge_pte_none(pte))
> > + continue;
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * HWPoisoned hugepage is already unmapped and dropped reference
> > + */
> > + if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned(pte)))
> > + continue;
> > +
> > + page = pte_page(pte);
> > /*
> > * If a reference page is supplied, it is because a specific
> > * page is being unmapped, not a range. Ensure the page we
> > * are about to unmap is the actual page of interest.
> > */
> > if (ref_page) {
> > - pte = huge_ptep_get(ptep);
> > - if (huge_pte_none(pte))
> > - continue;
> > - page = pte_page(pte);
> > if (page != ref_page)
> > continue;
> >
> > @@ -2267,16 +2274,6 @@ void __unmap_hugepage_range(struct vm_ar
> > }
> >
> > pte = huge_ptep_get_and_clear(mm, address, ptep);
> > - if (huge_pte_none(pte))
> > - continue;
> > -
> > - /*
> > - * HWPoisoned hugepage is already unmapped and dropped reference
> > - */
> > - if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned(pte)))
> > - continue;
> > -
> > - page = pte_page(pte);
> > if (pte_dirty(pte))
> > set_page_dirty(page);
> > list_add(&page->lru, &page_list);
>
> This changes behaviour when ref_page refers to a hwpoisoned page.

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