Re: [PATCH 6/9] rmap: support file THP

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 12:56:13PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 11/18/2015 03:25 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > -void page_add_file_rmap(struct page *page)
> > +void page_add_file_rmap(struct page *page, bool compound)
> 
> I take it we have to pass 'compound' in explicitly because
> PageCompound() could be true, but we don't want to do a compound
> mapping.  This is true for those weirdo sound driver allocations and a
> few other ones, right?

Right. Also more common case will be PTE-mapped THPs as we have now for
anon-THP.

Basically, we mirror what was done for anon rmap interface.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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