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* [PATCH 04/12] mm, thp, tmpfs: split huge page when moving from page cache to swap
@ 2013-10-15  0:12 Ning Qu
  2013-10-15 10:33 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ning Qu @ 2013-10-15  0:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrea Arcangeli, Andrew Morton, Kirill A. Shutemov, Hugh Dickins
  Cc: Al Viro, Hugh Dickins, Wu Fengguang, Jan Kara, Mel Gorman,
	linux-mm, Andi Kleen, Matthew Wilcox, Hillf Danton, Dave Hansen,
	Alexander Shishkin, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel, Ning Qu

in shmem_writepage, we have to split the huge page when moving pages
from page cache to swap because we don't support huge page in swap
yet.

Signed-off-by: Ning Qu <quning@gmail.com>
---
 mm/shmem.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 8fe17dd..68a0e1d 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -898,6 +898,13 @@ static int shmem_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 	swp_entry_t swap;
 	pgoff_t index;
 
+	/* TODO: we have to break the huge page at this point,
+	 * since we have no idea how to recover a huge page from
+	 * swap.
+	 */
+	if (PageTransCompound(page))
+		split_huge_page(compound_trans_head(page));
+
 	BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
 	mapping = page->mapping;
 	index = page->index;
@@ -946,7 +953,7 @@ static int shmem_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 			if (shmem_falloc)
 				goto redirty;
 		}
-		clear_highpage(page);
+		clear_pagecache_page(page);
 		flush_dcache_page(page);
 		SetPageUptodate(page);
 	}
-- 
1.8.4


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