Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v3 09/21] mm/hugetlb: Free the vmemmap pages associated with each hugetlb page

[Oscar Salvador]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 06:47:08PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> > That only refers to gigantic pages, right?
> 
> Yeah, now it only refers to gigantic pages. Originally, I also wanted to merge
> vmemmap PTE to PMD for normal 2MB HugeTLB pages. So I introduced
> those macros(e.g. freed_vmemmap_hpage). For 2MB HugeTLB pages, I
> haven't found an elegant solution. Hopefully, when you or someone have
> read all of the patch series, we can come up with an elegant solution to
> merge PTE.

Well, it is quite a lot of "tricky" code, so it takes some time.

> > > > > +static void free_huge_page_vmemmap(struct hstate *h, struct page *head)
> > > > > +{
> > > > > +     pmd_t *pmd;
> > > > > +     spinlock_t *ptl;
> > > > > +     LIST_HEAD(free_pages);
> > > > > +
> > > > > +     if (!free_vmemmap_pages_per_hpage(h))
> > > > > +             return;
> > > > > +
> > > > > +     pmd = vmemmap_to_pmd(head);
> > > > > +     ptl = vmemmap_pmd_lock(pmd);

I forgot about this one.
You might want to check whether vmemmap_to_pmd returns NULL or not.
If it does means that something went wrong anyways, but still we should handle
such case (and print a fat warning or something like that).


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Oscar Salvador
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