Re: [PATCH 3/9] migrate: add hugepage migration code tomigrate_pages()

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri,  9 Aug 2013 01:21:36 -0400 Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +static void check_hugetlb_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
> +		const nodemask_t *nodes, unsigned long flags,
> +				    void *private)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
> +	int nid;
> +	struct page *page;
> +
> +	spin_lock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
> +	page = pte_page(huge_ptep_get((pte_t *)pmd));
> +	nid = page_to_nid(page);
> +	if (node_isset(nid, *nodes) == !!(flags & MPOL_MF_INVERT))
> +		goto unlock;
> +	/* With MPOL_MF_MOVE, we migrate only unshared hugepage. */
> +	if (flags & (MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL) ||
> +	    (flags & MPOL_MF_MOVE && page_mapcount(page) == 1))
> +		isolate_huge_page(page, private);
> +unlock:
> +	spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
> +#else
> +	BUG();
> +#endif
> +}

The function is poorly named.  What does it "check"?  And it does more
than checking things - at actually makes alterations!

Can we have a better name here please, and some docmentation explaining
what it does and why it does it?

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