Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm/gup_benchmark: fix MAP_HUGETLB case

From: John Hubbard
Date: Tue Oct 22 2019 - 15:39:57 EST


On 10/22/19 11:57 AM, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 11:41:57AM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
>> On 10/22/19 10:14 AM, Jerome Glisse wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 02:24:35PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
>>>> The MAP_HUGETLB ("-H" option) of gup_benchmark fails:
>> ...
> So i was misslead by the file descriptor, passing a file descriptor and
> asking for anonymous always bugs me. But yeah the _linux_ kernel is happy
> to ignore the file argument if you set the anonymous flag. I guess the
> rules of passing -1 for fd when anonymous is just engrave in my brain.
>

Yeah, I definitely get that. In fact, I initially considered further changing
the test code so as to pass -1 for fd in this case, but because it's pure
Linux-only test code, it didn't really seem worth the (small) additional
change.

> Also i thought that the file was an argument of the test and thus that
> for huge you needed to pass a hugetlbfs' file.
>
> Anyway my mistake, you are right, you can pass a file and ask for anonymous
> and hugetlb at the same time.
>
> Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
>

Thanks for the review!

Admin note: this already went into mmotm, so I'm hoping Andrew will notice this
email and add the Reviewed-by tag, please?

thanks,

John Hubbard
NVIDIA