linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 2/6] mm/huge_memory.c: make get_huge_zero

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Date:   Thu, 18 Mar 2021 08:27:18 -0400
From:   Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To:     <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:     <ziy@...dia.com>, <willy@...radead.org>,
        <william.kucharski@...cle.com>, <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        <peterx@...hat.com>, <yulei.kernel@...il.com>, <walken@...gle.com>,
        <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>, <rcampbell@...dia.com>,
        <thomas_os@...pmail.org>, <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        <richard.weiyang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/6] mm/huge_memory.c: make get_huge_zero_page() return bool

It's guaranteed that huge_zero_page will not be NULL if huge_zero_refcount
is increased successfully. When READ_ONCE(huge_zero_page) is returned,
there must be a huge_zero_page and it can be replaced with returning 'true'
when we do not care about the value of huge_zero_page. We can thus make it
return bool to save READ_ONCE cpu cycles as the return value is just used
to check if huge_zero_page exists.

Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index ae16a82da823..01b96c638e73 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -77,18 +77,18 @@ bool transparent_hugepage_enabled(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 	return false;
 }
 
-static struct page *get_huge_zero_page(void)
+static bool get_huge_zero_page(void)
 {
 	struct page *zero_page;
 retry:
 	if (likely(atomic_inc_not_zero(&huge_zero_refcount)))
-		return READ_ONCE(huge_zero_page);
+		return true;
 
 	zero_page = alloc_pages((GFP_TRANSHUGE | __GFP_ZERO) & ~__GFP_MOVABLE,
 			HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
 	if (!zero_page) {
 		count_vm_event(THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC_FAILED);
-		return NULL;
+		return false;
 	}
 	count_vm_event(THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC);
 	preempt_disable();
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static struct page *get_huge_zero_page(void)
 	/* We take additional reference here. It will be put back by shrinker */
 	atomic_set(&huge_zero_refcount, 2);
 	preempt_enable();
-	return READ_ONCE(huge_zero_page);
+	return true;
 }
 
 static void put_huge_zero_page(void)
-- 
2.19.1