Re: [PATCH v7 06/11] filemap: cap PTE range to be created to allowed zero fill in folio_map_range()

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu Jun 13 2024 - 11:47:47 EST


On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 08:38:15AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 04:32:27PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 08:27:27AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > > The case I tested that failed the test was tmpfs with huge pages (not
> > > large folios). So should we then have this:
> >
> > No.
>
> OK so this does have a change for tmpfs with huge pages enabled, do we
> take the position then this is a fix for that?

You literally said it was a fix just a few messages up thread?

Besides, the behaviour changes (currently) depending on whether
you specify "within_size" or "always". This patch makes it consistent.