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Message-ID: <ZUCD1dsbrFjdZgVv@memverge.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:34:29 -0400
From: Gregory Price <gregory.price@...verge.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry.memverge@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org, david@...hat.com, vbabka@...e.cz,
naoya.horiguchi@...ux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kpageflags: respect folio head-page flag placement
On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 09:13:44AM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 07:41:23PM -0400, Gregory Price wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 11:22:18PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 02:00:05PM -0400, Gregory Price wrote:
> > > > kpageflags reads page-flags directly from the page, even when the
> > > > respective flag is only updated on the headpage of a folio.
> > > >
> > > > Update bitchecks to use PAGEFLAG() interfaces to check folio for the
> > > > referenced, dirty, lru, active, and unevictable bits.
> > >
> > > But uptodate, writeback and reclaim (amongst others) are also defined
> > > only on the head page.
> > >
> >
> > Ah yes i was only looking at the things defined w/ PAGEFLAG defines in
> > page-flags.h. I'll give it full once over can collect them all, my bad.
> >
> > (also i forgot to update my commit message)
> >
> > Quick question here since i have your attention: any recommendation on
> > what to do for ONLY_HEAD flags? If the provided page is not the head,
> > should the flag report 0... or whatever the head says?
>
> Thinking about it some more, really almost all flags are per-folio, not
> per-page. The only exceptions are HWPoison and AnonExclusive. So
> probably the right way to do this is to make k = folio->flags, and
> then just change a few places rather than changing all the places that
> test 'k'.
Funny enough that's what i originally did but was confident it was
correct so walked it back. I'll take another crack at it.
~Gregory
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