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Date:	Wed, 22 May 2013 18:13:02 +0300 (EEST)
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com>
Cc:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 33/39] thp, mm: implement do_huge_linear_fault()

Hillf Danton wrote:
> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov
> <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> > @@ -3301,12 +3335,23 @@ static int __do_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> >  {
> >         pte_t *page_table;
> >         spinlock_t *ptl;
> > +       pgtable_t pgtable = NULL;
> >         struct page *page, *cow_page, *dirty_page = NULL;
> > -       pte_t entry;
> >         bool anon = false, page_mkwrite = false;
> >         bool write = flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;
> > +       bool thp = flags & FAULT_FLAG_TRANSHUGE;
> > +       unsigned long addr_aligned;
> >         struct vm_fault vmf;
> > -       int ret;
> > +       int nr, ret;
> > +
> > +       if (thp) {
> > +               if (!transhuge_vma_suitable(vma, address))
> > +                       return VM_FAULT_FALLBACK;
> > +               if (unlikely(khugepaged_enter(vma)))
> 
> vma->vm_mm now is under the care of khugepaged, why?

Because it has at least once VMA suitable for huge pages.

Yes, we can't collapse pages in file-backed VMAs yet, but It's better to
be consistent to avoid issues when collapsing will be implemented.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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