linux-kernel - Re: a question of split_huge

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Date:   Fri, 10 Jul 2020 13:33:18 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:     Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: a question of split_huge_page

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 12:51:58PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> 
> 
> 在 2020/7/10 上午12:07, Kirill A. Shutemov 写道:
> > Right, and it's never got removed from LRU during the split. The tail
> > pages have to be added to LRU because they now separate from the tail
> > page.
> > 
> According to the explaination, looks like we could remove the code path,
> since it's never got into. (base on my v15 patchset). Any comments?

Yes. But why? It's reasonable failsafe that gives chance to recover if
something goes wrong.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov