Re: [PATCHv4 19/24] thp, mm: use migration entries to freeze page counts on split

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Mon Mar 30 2015 - 11:27:19 EST


On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 08:38:08PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> ....
> ....
> +static void freeze_page(struct anon_vma *anon_vma, struct page *page)
> > +{
> > + struct anon_vma_chain *avc;
> > + struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> > + pgoff_t pgoff = page->index << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT);
>
> So this get called only with head page, We also do
> BUG_ON(PageTail(page)) in the caller. But
>
>
> > + unsigned long addr, haddr;
> > + unsigned long mmun_start, mmun_end;
> > + pgd_t *pgd;
> > + pud_t *pud;
> > + pmd_t *pmd;
> > + pte_t *start_pte, *pte;
> > + spinlock_t *ptl;
> ......
>
>
> > +
> > +static void unfreeze_page(struct anon_vma *anon_vma, struct page *page)
> > +{
> > + struct anon_vma_chain *avc;
> > + pgoff_t pgoff = page_to_pgoff(page);
>
> Why ? Can this get called for tail pages ?

It cannot. pgoff is offset of head page (and therefore whole compound
page) within rmapping.

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Kirill A. Shutemov
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