linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm: don't remap clean subpages when splitting isolated thp

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Date:   Tue, 3 Aug 2021 12:36:18 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Shuang Zhai <zhais@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm: don't remap clean subpages when splitting
 isolated thp

On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 12:39:38AM -0600, Yu Zhao wrote:
> +++ b/include/linux/rmap.h
> @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ int page_mkclean(struct page *);
>   */
>  void page_mlock(struct page *page);
>  
> -void remove_migration_ptes(struct page *old, struct page *new, bool locked);
> +void remove_migration_ptes(struct page *old, struct page *new, bool locked, bool unmap_clean);

I'm not a big fan of 'bool, bool'.  Could we use a flag word instead?

#define MIGRATE_REMOVE_LOCKED	1
#define MIGRATE_UNMAP_CLEAN	2