Re: [PATCH 0/5] Cleanup and fixup for huge_memory

[Miaohe Lin]

On 2021/4/28 11:10, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
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> On 4/27/21 7:02 PM, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> This series contains cleanups to remove dedicated macro and remove
>> unnecessary tlb_remove_page_size() for huge zero pmd. Also this adds
>> missing read-only THP checking for transparent_hugepage_enabled() and
>> avoids discarding hugepage if other processes are mapping it. More
>> details can be found in the respective changelogs. Thanks!
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>> Miaohe Lin (5):
>>   mm/huge_memory.c: remove dedicated macro HPAGE_CACHE_INDEX_MASK
>>   mm/huge_memory.c: use page->deferred_list
>>   mm/huge_memory.c: add missing read-only THP checking in
>>     transparent_hugepage_enabled()
>>   mm/huge_memory.c: remove unnecessary tlb_remove_page_size() for huge
>>     zero pmd
>>   mm/huge_memory.c: don't discard hugepage if other processes are
>>     mapping it
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> I guess it might be just better to split the series into cleans-ups
> without functional change and then fixes separately.

Sounds reasonable. But IMO all of these changes are pretty simple and independent,
maybe it's ok to keep these together?

Many thanks for comment.

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