linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv5 20/28] mm: differentiate page_mapped() from page

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Date:	Mon, 18 May 2015 17:35:16 +0200
From:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
CC:	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...two.org>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	Steve Capper <steve.capper@...aro.org>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 20/28] mm: differentiate page_mapped() from page_mapcount()
 for compound pages

On 04/23/2015 11:03 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Let's define page_mapped() to be true for compound pages if any
> sub-pages of the compound page is mapped (with PMD or PTE).
>
> On other hand page_mapcount() return mapcount for this particular small
> page.
>
> This will make cases like page_get_anon_vma() behave correctly once we
> allow huge pages to be mapped with PTE.
>
> Most users outside core-mm should use page_mapcount() instead of
> page_mapped().

Does "should" mean that they do that now, or just that you would like 
them to? Should there be a warning before the function then?

>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
> Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>

> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -909,7 +909,16 @@ static inline pgoff_t page_file_index(struct page *page)

(not shown in the diff)

  * Return true if this page is mapped into pagetables.
>    */

Expand the comment? Especially if you put compound_head() there.

>   static inline int page_mapped(struct page *page)

Convert to proper bool while at it?

>   {
> -	return atomic_read(&(page)->_mapcount) + compound_mapcount(page) >= 0;
> +	int i;
> +	if (likely(!PageCompound(page)))
> +		return atomic_read(&page->_mapcount) >= 0;
> +	if (compound_mapcount(page))
> +		return 1;
> +	for (i = 0; i < hpage_nr_pages(page); i++) {
> +		if (atomic_read(&page[i]._mapcount) >= 0)
> +			return 1;
> +	}
> +	return 0;
>   }
>
>   /*

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