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Date:	Mon, 4 Aug 2014 11:29:00 -0400
From:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mm/hugetlb: take refcount under page table lock
 in follow_huge_pmd()

On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 02:53:58PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
...
> > --- mmotm-2014-07-22-15-58.orig/mm/hugetlb.c
> > +++ mmotm-2014-07-22-15-58/mm/hugetlb.c
> > @@ -3687,6 +3687,33 @@ follow_huge_pud(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
> >  
> >  #endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB */
> >  
> > +struct page *follow_huge_pmd_lock(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> > +				unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmd, int flags)
> 
> Some documentation here wouldn't hurt.  Why it exists, what it does. 
> And especially: any preconditions to calling it (ie: locking).

Sorry, I missed this comment.
How about this?

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 1da7ca2e2a02..923465c0b47f 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3693,6 +3693,14 @@ follow_huge_pud(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB */
 
+/*
+ * This function calls the architecture dependent variant follow_huge_pmd()
+ * with holding page table lock depending on FOLL_GET.
+ * Whether hugepage migration is supported or not, follow() can be called
+ * with FOLL_GET from do_move_page_to_node_array(), so we need do this in
+ * common code.
+ * Should be called under read mmap_sem.
+ */
 struct page *follow_huge_pmd_lock(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 				unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmd, int flags)
 {
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