linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/page_reporting: the "page" must not be the list head

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Date:   Tue, 18 Aug 2020 11:05:58 +0800
From:   Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>,
        Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/page_reporting: the "page" must not be the list head

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 07:07:04PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>On 17.08.20 18:05, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 8/17/2020 2:35 AM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> On 17.08.20 10:48, Wei Yang wrote:
>>>> If "page" is the list head, list_for_each_entry_safe() would stop
>>>> iteration.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...ux.alibaba.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>   mm/page_reporting.c | 2 +-
>>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/mm/page_reporting.c b/mm/page_reporting.c
>>>> index 3bbd471cfc81..aaaa3605123d 100644
>>>> --- a/mm/page_reporting.c
>>>> +++ b/mm/page_reporting.c
>>>> @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ page_reporting_cycle(struct page_reporting_dev_info *prdev, struct zone *zone,
>>>>   		 * the new head of the free list before we release the
>>>>   		 * zone lock.
>>>>   		 */
>>>> -		if (&page->lru != list && !list_is_first(&page->lru, list))
>>>> +		if (!list_is_first(&page->lru, list))
>>>>   			list_rotate_to_front(&page->lru, list);
>>>>   
>>>>   		/* release lock before waiting on report processing */
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is this a fix or a cleanup? If it's a fix, can this be reproduced easily
>>> and what ere the effects?
>>>
>> 
>> This should be a clean-up. Since the &page->lru != list will always be true.
>> 
>
>Makes sense, maybe we can make that a little bit clearer in the patch
>description.
>

Ok, do you have some suggestion on the description?

   A clean-up for commit xxx?

I would appreciate your suggestion :-)

>> If I recall at some point the that was a check for &next->lru != list 
>> but I think I pulled out an additional conditional check somewhere so 
>> that we just go through the start of the loop again and iterate over 
>> reported pages until we are guaranteed to have a non-reported page to 
>> rotate to the top of the list with the general idea being that we wanted 
>> the allocator to pull non-reported pages before reported pages.
>
>-- 
>Thanks,
>
>David / dhildenb

-- 
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