Re: [PATCH 01/19] mm, thp: drop FOLL_SPLIT

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 03:01:16AM +0000, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 04:49:36PM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > FOLL_SPLIT is used only in two places: migration and s390.
> > 
> > Let's replace it with explicit split and remove FOLL_SPLIT.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> ...
> > @@ -1246,6 +1246,11 @@ static int do_move_page_to_node_array(struct mm_struct *mm,
> >  		if (!page)
> >  			goto set_status;
> >  
> > +		if (PageTransHuge(page) && split_huge_page(page)) {
> > +			err = -EBUSY;
> > +			goto set_status;
> > +		}
> > +
> 
> This check makes split_huge_page() be called for hugetlb pages, which
> triggers BUG_ON. So could you do this after if (PageHuge) block below?
> And I think that we have "Node already in the right place" check afterward,
> so I hope that moving down this check also helps us reduce thp splitting.

It makes sense. Thanks for report.

Other problem here is that we need to goto put_and_set, not set_status :-/

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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