Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: rmap: make hugetlb pages participate in _nr_pages_mapped

From: Peter Xu
Date: Wed Mar 08 2023 - 16:57:09 EST


On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 04:36:51PM -0800, James Houghton wrote:
> > > if (likely(!compound)) {
> > > + if (unlikely(folio_test_hugetlb(folio)))
> > > + VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(HPageVmemmapOptimized(&folio->page),
> > > + page);

How about moving folio_test_hugetlb() into the BUG_ON()?

VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(folio_test_hugetlb(folio) &&
HPageVmemmapOptimized(&folio->page),
page);

Note that BUG_ON() already contains an "unlikely".

> > > first = atomic_inc_and_test(&page->_mapcount);
> > > nr = first;
> > > if (first && folio_test_large(folio)) {
> > > nr = atomic_inc_return_relaxed(mapped);
> > > nr = (nr < COMPOUND_MAPPED);
> > > }
> > > - } else if (folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio)) {
> > > - /* That test is redundant: it's for safety or to optimize out */
> >
> > I 'think' removing this check is OK. It would seem that the caller
> > knows if the folio is mappable. If we want a similar test, we might be
> > able to use something like:
> >
> > arch_hugetlb_valid_size(folio_size(folio))
> >
>
> Ack. I think leaving the check(s) removed is fine.

Would it still be good to keep that as another BUG_ON()?

--
Peter Xu