linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/8] mm: introduce PageHuge() for testing huge/gigantic pages

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Message-ID: <20090508114018.GA17129@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 8 May 2009 13:40:18 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] mm: introduce PageHuge() for testing huge/gigantic
	pages


* Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com> wrote:

> Introduce PageHuge(), which identifies huge/gigantic pages
> by their dedicated compound destructor functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/mm.h |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  mm/hugetlb.c       |    2 +-
>  mm/page_alloc.c    |   11 ++++++++++-
>  3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> --- linux.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ linux/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -299,13 +299,22 @@ void prep_compound_page(struct page *pag
>  }
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLBFS
> +/*
> + * This (duplicated) destructor function distinguishes gigantic pages from
> + * normal compound pages.
> + */
> +void free_gigantic_page(struct page *page)
> +{
> +	__free_pages_ok(page, compound_order(page));
> +}
> +
>  void prep_compound_gigantic_page(struct page *page, unsigned long order)
>  {
>  	int i;
>  	int nr_pages = 1 << order;
>  	struct page *p = page + 1;
>  
> -	set_compound_page_dtor(page, free_compound_page);
> +	set_compound_page_dtor(page, free_gigantic_page);
>  	set_compound_order(page, order);
>  	__SetPageHead(page);
>  	for (i = 1; i < nr_pages; i++, p = mem_map_next(p, page, i)) {
> --- linux.orig/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ linux/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ struct hstate *size_to_hstate(unsigned l
>  	return NULL;
>  }
>  
> -static void free_huge_page(struct page *page)
> +void free_huge_page(struct page *page)
>  {
>  	/*
>  	 * Can't pass hstate in here because it is called from the
> --- linux.orig/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ linux/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -355,6 +355,30 @@ static inline void set_compound_order(st
>  	page[1].lru.prev = (void *)order;
>  }
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLBFS
> +void free_huge_page(struct page *page);
> +void free_gigantic_page(struct page *page);
> +
> +static inline int PageHuge(struct page *page)
> +{
> +	compound_page_dtor *dtor;
> +
> +	if (!PageCompound(page))
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	page = compound_head(page);
> +	dtor = get_compound_page_dtor(page);
> +
> +	return  dtor == free_huge_page ||
> +		dtor == free_gigantic_page;
> +}

Hm, this function is _way_ too large to be inlined.

	Ingo
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