Re: [Patch v2 0/4] mm/mremap: cleanup move_page_tables() a little

From: Wei Yang
Date: Thu Jan 30 2020 - 18:04:56 EST


On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 01:18:00AM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>29.01.2020 03:26, Wei Yang ÐÐÑÐÑ:
>> move_page_tables() tries to move page table by PMD or PTE.
>>
>> The root reason is if it tries to move PMD, both old and new range should
>> be PMD aligned. But current code calculate old range and new range
>> separately. This leads to some redundant check and calculation.
>>
>> This cleanup tries to consolidate the range check in one place to reduce
>> some extra range handling.
>>
>> v2:
>> * remove 3rd patch which doesn't work on ARM platform. Thanks report from
>> Dmitry Osipenko
>>
>> Wei Yang (4):
>> mm/mremap: format the check in move_normal_pmd() same as
>> move_huge_pmd()
>> mm/mremap: it is sure to have enough space when extent meets
>> requirement
>> mm/mremap: calculate extent in one place
>> mm/mremap: start addresses are properly aligned
>>
>> include/linux/huge_mm.h | 2 +-
>> mm/huge_memory.c | 8 +-------
>> mm/mremap.c | 17 ++++++-----------
>> 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>>
>
>Hello Wei,
>
>I haven't noticed any problems using the v2. Thank you very much for
>addressing the problem!
>

Glad to hear this.

Actually, really thanks for your patience on testing and reporting the
problem.

Have a nice day :-)

>Tested-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx>

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