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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 7/7] mm: Don't split THP page when syscall is called
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 12:48:10 +0300
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 10:30:38AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Actually, I did but found no problem except CONFIG_DEBUG_VM but rollback
> after peeking [1].
> When I read the description in detail by your review, I think we can remove
> BUG_ON(PageTransHuge(page)) in try_to_unmap and go with no split for lazyfree
> page because they are not in swapcache any more so the assumption of [1] is
> not valid. Will do it in next revision.

No. try_to_unmap() knows nothing about PMDs, so page_check_address() will
always return NULL for THP and you will not unmap anything.

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 Kirill A. Shutemov

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