Re: [PATCH] mm: replace is_zero_pfn with is_huge_zero_pmd for thp

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Mon Aug 26 2019 - 09:19:09 EST



Why did you not cc Gerald who wrote the patch? You can't just
run get_maintainers.pl and call it good.

On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 02:06:21PM -0600, Yu Zhao wrote:
> For hugely mapped thp, we use is_huge_zero_pmd() to check if it's
> zero page or not.
>
> We do fill ptes with my_zero_pfn() when we split zero thp pmd, but
> this is not what we have in vm_normal_page_pmd().
> pmd_trans_huge_lock() makes sure of it.
>
> This is a trivial fix for /proc/pid/numa_maps, and AFAIK nobody
> complains about it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/memory.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index e2bb51b6242e..ea3c74855b23 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ struct page *vm_normal_page_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
>
> if (pmd_devmap(pmd))
> return NULL;
> - if (is_zero_pfn(pfn))
> + if (is_huge_zero_pmd(pmd))
> return NULL;
> if (unlikely(pfn > highest_memmap_pfn))
> return NULL;
> --
> 2.23.0.187.g17f5b7556c-goog
>