From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] thp: tail page refcounting fix #4
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:30:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110829233001.GM4051@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANN689G4HowkFC7BG69F-PJMne5Mhs51O=KgmmJUjiXfG-o9BQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 03:40:07PM -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> Looks great.
Thanks!
> I think some page_mapcount call sites would be easier to read if you
> took on my tail_page_count() suggestion (so we can casually see it's a
> refcount rather than mapcount). But you don't have to do it if you
> don't think it helps. I'm happy enough with the code already :)
I initially tried to do it but I wanted it in internal.h (it's really
an internal thing not mean for any driver whatsoever) but then the
gup.c files wouldn't see it, so I wasn't sure how to proceed and I
dropped it. It's still possible to do it later...
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] thp: tail page refcounting fix #4
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:30:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110829233001.GM4051@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANN689G4HowkFC7BG69F-PJMne5Mhs51O=KgmmJUjiXfG-o9BQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 03:40:07PM -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> Looks great.
Thanks!
> I think some page_mapcount call sites would be easier to read if you
> took on my tail_page_count() suggestion (so we can casually see it's a
> refcount rather than mapcount). But you don't have to do it if you
> don't think it helps. I'm happy enough with the code already :)
I initially tried to do it but I wanted it in internal.h (it's really
an internal thing not mean for any driver whatsoever) but then the
gup.c files wouldn't see it, so I wasn't sure how to proceed and I
dropped it. It's still possible to do it later...
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Thread overview: 109+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-19 7:48 [PATCH 0/9] Use RCU to stabilize page counts Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-19 7:48 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-19 7:48 ` [PATCH 1/9] mm: rcu read lock for getting reference on pages in migration_entry_wait() Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-19 7:48 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-19 7:48 ` [PATCH 2/9] mm: avoid calling get_page_unless_zero() when charging cgroups Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-19 7:48 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-19 7:48 ` [PATCH 3/9] mm: rcu read lock when getting from tail to head page Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-19 7:48 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-19 7:48 ` [PATCH 4/9] mm: use get_page in deactivate_page() Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-19 7:48 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-19 7:48 ` [PATCH 5/9] kvm: use get_page instead of get_page_unless_zero Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-19 7:48 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-19 7:48 ` [PATCH 6/9] mm: assert that get_page_unless_zero() callers hold the rcu lock Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-19 7:48 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-19 23:28 ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-19 23:28 ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-19 7:48 ` [PATCH 7/9] rcu: rcu_get_gp_cookie() / rcu_gp_cookie_elapsed() stand-ins Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-19 7:48 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-19 7:48 ` [PATCH 8/9] mm: add API for setting a grace period cookie on compound pages Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-19 7:48 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-19 7:48 ` [PATCH 9/9] mm: make sure tail page counts are stable before splitting THP pages Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-19 7:48 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-19 7:53 ` [PATCH 0/9] Use RCU to stabilize page counts Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-19 7:53 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-22 21:33 ` [PATCH] thp: tail page refcounting fix Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-22 21:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-23 14:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-23 14:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-23 16:45 ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-23 16:45 ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-23 16:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-23 16:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-23 19:52 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-23 19:52 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-24 0:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-24 0:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-24 0:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-24 0:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-24 13:34 ` [PATCH] thp: tail page refcounting fix #2 Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-24 13:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-26 6:24 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-26 6:24 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-26 16:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-26 16:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-26 18:54 ` [PATCH] thp: tail page refcounting fix #3 Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-26 18:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-27 9:41 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-27 9:41 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-27 17:34 ` [PATCH] thp: tail page refcounting fix #4 Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-27 17:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-29 4:20 ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-29 4:20 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-01 15:24 ` [PATCH] thp: tail page refcounting fix #5 Andrea Arcangeli
2011-09-01 15:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-09-01 22:27 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-01 22:27 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-01 23:28 ` Andrew Morton
2011-09-01 23:28 ` Andrew Morton
2011-09-01 23:45 ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-01 23:45 ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-02 0:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-09-02 0:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-09-02 1:17 ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-02 1:17 ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-02 0:03 ` Andrew Morton
2011-09-02 0:03 ` Andrew Morton
2011-09-08 16:51 ` [PATCH] thp: tail page refcounting fix #6 Andrea Arcangeli
2011-09-08 16:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-09-23 15:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-23 15:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-30 13:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-09-30 13:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-16 20:37 ` thp: gup_fast ppc tail refcounting [was Re: [PATCH] thp: tail page refcounting fix #6] Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-16 20:37 ` [PATCH 1/4] powerpc: remove superfluous PageTail checks on the pte gup_fast Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-16 20:37 ` [PATCH 2/4] powerpc: get_hugepte() don't put_page() the wrong page Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-16 20:37 ` [PATCH 3/4] powerpc: gup_hugepte() avoid to free the head page too many times Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-16 20:37 ` [PATCH 4/4] powerpc: gup_hugepte() support THP based tail recounting Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-16 20:40 ` thp: gup_fast ppc tail refcounting [was Re: [PATCH] thp: tail page refcounting fix #6] Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-16 20:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-16 20:40 ` [PATCH 1/4] powerpc: remove superfluous PageTail checks on the pte gup_fast Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-16 20:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-16 20:40 ` [PATCH 2/4] powerpc: get_hugepte() don't put_page() the wrong page Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-16 20:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-16 20:40 ` [PATCH 3/4] powerpc: gup_hugepte() avoid to free the head page too many times Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-16 20:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-16 20:40 ` [PATCH 4/4] powerpc: gup_hugepte() support THP based tail recounting Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-16 20:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-17 14:41 ` thp: gup_fast s390/sparc tail refcounting [was Re: [PATCH] thp: tail page refcounting fix #6] Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-17 14:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-17 14:41 ` [PATCH 1/3] s390: gup_huge_pmd() support THP tail recounting Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-17 14:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-17 14:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] sparc: gup_pte_range() support THP based " Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-17 14:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-17 22:44 ` David Miller
2011-10-17 22:44 ` David Miller
2011-10-17 14:41 ` [PATCH 3/3] thp: share get_huge_page_tail() Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-17 14:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-17 21:32 ` fix two more s390/sparc gup_fast bugs Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-17 21:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-17 21:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] s390: gup_huge_pmd() return 0 if pte changes Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-17 21:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-17 21:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] powerpc: " Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-17 21:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-29 22:40 ` [PATCH] thp: tail page refcounting fix #4 Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-29 22:40 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-29 23:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2011-08-29 23:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-26 19:28 ` [PATCH] thp: tail page refcounting fix #2 Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-26 19:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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