From: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
To: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] [FIX] hugetlb: Fix broken fs quota management
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:02:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1193256124.18417.70.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b040c32a0710241221m9151f6xd0fe09e00608a597@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 12:21 -0700, Ken Chen wrote:
> On 10/24/07, Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 11:43 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > > This particular nugget is for MAP_PRIVATE pages only, right? The shared
> > > ones should have another ref out on them for the 'mapping' too, so won't
> > > get released at unmap, right?
> >
> > Yep that's right. Shared pages are released by truncate_hugepages()
> > when the ref for the mapping is dropped.
>
> I think as a follow up patch, we should debit the quota in
> free_huge_page(), so you don't have to open code it like this and also
> consolidate calls to hugetlb_put_quota() in one place. It's cleaner
> that way.
At free_huge_page() time, you can't associate the page with a struct
address_space so it becomes hard to credit the proper filesystem. When
freeing the page, page->mapping is no longer valid (even for shared
pages).
--
Adam Litke - (agl at us.ibm.com)
IBM Linux Technology Center
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-24 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-24 13:23 [PATCH 0/3] hugetlb: Fix up filesystem quota accounting Adam Litke
2007-10-24 13:23 ` [PATCH 1/3] [FIX] hugetlb: Fix broken fs quota management Adam Litke
2007-10-24 18:43 ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-24 19:03 ` Adam Litke
2007-10-24 19:18 ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-24 19:21 ` Ken Chen
2007-10-24 20:02 ` Adam Litke [this message]
2007-10-24 22:12 ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-25 5:20 ` Ken Chen
2007-10-25 14:54 ` Adam Litke
2007-10-24 13:23 ` [PATCH 2/3] hugetlb: Allow bulk updating in hugetlb_*_quota() Adam Litke
2007-10-24 13:24 ` [PATCH 3/3] [PATCH] hugetlb: Enforce quotas during reservation for shared mappings Adam Litke
2007-10-24 19:07 ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-24 19:52 ` Adam Litke
2007-10-24 20:00 ` Dave Hansen
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