Re: [PATCH 2/8] hugetlb, rmap: add reverse mapping for hugepage

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 28 May 2010 09:29:16 +0900
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> wrote:

> +#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLBFS
> +/*
> + * The following three functions are for anonymous (private mapped) hugepages.
> + * Unlike common anonymous pages, anonymous hugepages have no accounting code
> + * and no lru code, because we handle hugepages differently from common pages.
> + */
> +static void __hugepage_set_anon_rmap(struct page *page,
> +	struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, int exclusive)
> +{
> +	struct anon_vma *anon_vma = vma->anon_vma;
> +	BUG_ON(!anon_vma);
> +	if (!exclusive) {
> +		struct anon_vma_chain *avc;
> +		avc = list_entry(vma->anon_vma_chain.prev,
> +				 struct anon_vma_chain, same_vma);
> +		anon_vma = avc->anon_vma;
> +	}
> +	anon_vma = (void *) anon_vma + PAGE_MAPPING_ANON;
> +	page->mapping = (struct address_space *) anon_vma;
> +	page->index = linear_page_index(vma, address);
> +}
> +
> +void hugepage_add_anon_rmap(struct page *page,
> +			    struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address)
> +{
> +	struct anon_vma *anon_vma = vma->anon_vma;
> +	int first;
> +	BUG_ON(!anon_vma);
> +	BUG_ON(address < vma->vm_start || address >= vma->vm_end);
> +	first = atomic_inc_and_test(&page->_mapcount);
> +	if (first)
> +		__hugepage_set_anon_rmap(page, vma, address, 0);
> +}
> +
> +void hugepage_add_new_anon_rmap(struct page *page,
> +			struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address)
> +{
> +	BUG_ON(address < vma->vm_start || address >= vma->vm_end);
> +	atomic_set(&page->_mapcount, 0);
> +	__hugepage_set_anon_rmap(page, vma, address, 1);
> +}
> +#endif /* CONFIG_HUGETLBFS */

This code still make sense if CONFIG_HUGETLBFS=n, I think?  Should it
instead depend on CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE?

I have a feeling that we make that confusion relatively often.  Perhaps
CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE=y && CONFIG_HUGETLBFS=n makes no sense and we
should unify them...