linux-kernel - [PATCH] doc: mm: migration doesn't use FOLL

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Date:   Fri, 19 Apr 2019 04:17:04 +0800
From:   Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     mhocko@...e.com, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, ziy@...dia.com,
        rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, corbet@....net, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] doc: mm: migration doesn't use FOLL_SPLIT anymore

When demonstrating FOLL_SPLIT in transhuge document, migration is used
as an example.  But, since commit 94723aafb9e7 ("mm: unclutter THP
migration"), the way of THP migration is totally changed.  FOLL_SPLIT is
not used by migration anymore due to the change.

Remove the obsolete example to avoid confusion.

Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
---
 Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst
index a8cf680..8df3806 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst
@@ -55,13 +55,7 @@ prevent page from being split by anyone.
 In case you can't handle compound pages if they're returned by
 follow_page, the FOLL_SPLIT bit can be specified as parameter to
 follow_page, so that it will split the hugepages before returning
-them. Migration for example passes FOLL_SPLIT as parameter to
-follow_page because it's not hugepage aware and in fact it can't work
-at all on hugetlbfs (but it instead works fine on transparent
-hugepages thanks to FOLL_SPLIT). migration simply can't deal with
-hugepages being returned (as it's not only checking the pfn of the
-page and pinning it during the copy but it pretends to migrate the
-memory in regular page sizes and with regular pte/pmd mappings).
+them.
 
 Graceful fallback
 =================
-- 
1.8.3.1