linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/6] teach smaps_pte

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Message-ID: <1296768890.8299.1648.camel@nimitz>
Date:	Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:34:50 -0800
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Michael J Wolf <mjwolf@...ibm.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/6] teach smaps_pte_range() about THP pmds

On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 13:22 -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> > @@ -385,6 +386,17 @@ static int smaps_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, u
> >  	pte_t *pte;
> >  	spinlock_t *ptl;
> >  
> > +	if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
> > +		if (pmd_trans_splitting(*pmd)) {
> > +			spin_unlock(&walk->mm->page_table_lock);
> > +			wait_split_huge_page(vma->anon_vma, pmd);
> > +			spin_lock(&walk->mm->page_table_lock);
> > +			goto normal_ptes;
> > +		}
> > +		smaps_pte_entry(*(pte_t *)pmd, addr, HPAGE_SIZE, walk);
> > +		return 0;
> > +	}
> > +normal_ptes:
> 
> Small nitpick: the label isn't necessary, just use an else-clause on your 
> nested conditional.

Works for me.

> >  	split_huge_page_pmd(walk->mm, pmd);
> >  
> >  	pte = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
> > diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~teach-smaps_pte_range-about-thp-pmds mm/vmscan.c
> > diff -puN include/trace/events/vmscan.h~teach-smaps_pte_range-about-thp-pmds include/trace/events/vmscan.h
> > diff -puN mm/pagewalk.c~teach-smaps_pte_range-about-thp-pmds mm/pagewalk.c
> > diff -puN mm/huge_memory.c~teach-smaps_pte_range-about-thp-pmds mm/huge_memory.c
> > diff -puN mm/memory.c~teach-smaps_pte_range-about-thp-pmds mm/memory.c
> > diff -puN include/linux/huge_mm.h~teach-smaps_pte_range-about-thp-pmds include/linux/huge_mm.h
> > diff -puN mm/internal.h~teach-smaps_pte_range-about-thp-pmds mm/internal.h
> > _
> 
> What are all these?

Junk.  I'll pull them out.

-- Dave

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