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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/12] mm: let swap use exceptional entries
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 14:52:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110618145254.1b333344.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1106140342330.29206@sister.anvils>

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:43:47 -0700 (PDT) Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> wrote:

> --- linux.orig/mm/filemap.c	2011-06-13 13:26:44.430284135 -0700
> +++ linux/mm/filemap.c	2011-06-13 13:27:34.526532556 -0700
> @@ -717,9 +717,12 @@ repeat:
>  		page = radix_tree_deref_slot(pagep);
>  		if (unlikely(!page))
>  			goto out;
> -		if (radix_tree_deref_retry(page))
> +		if (radix_tree_exception(page)) {
> +			if (radix_tree_exceptional_entry(page))
> +				goto out;
> +			/* radix_tree_deref_retry(page) */
>  			goto repeat;
> -
> +		}
>  		if (!page_cache_get_speculative(page))
>  			goto repeat;

All the crap^Wnice changes made to filemap.c really need some comments,
please.  Particularly when they're keyed off the bland-sounding
"radix_tree_exception()".  Apparently they have something to do with
swap, but how is the poor reader to know this?

Also, commenting out a function call might be meaningful information for
Hugh-right-now, but for other people later on, they're just a big WTF.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-18 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-14 10:40 [PATCH 0/12] tmpfs: convert from old swap vector to radix tree Hugh Dickins
2011-06-14 10:42 ` [PATCH 1/12] radix_tree: exceptional entries and indices Hugh Dickins
2011-06-14 11:22   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-06-15  0:24     ` Hugh Dickins
2011-06-17 23:38   ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-18  0:07     ` Randy Dunlap
2011-06-18  0:12       ` Randy Dunlap
2011-06-18  1:52         ` Hugh Dickins
2011-07-19 22:36           ` Hugh Dickins
2011-07-19 23:28             ` Randy Dunlap
2011-06-18  0:13     ` Hugh Dickins
2011-06-18 21:48       ` Andrew Morton
2011-07-12 22:56         ` Hugh Dickins
2011-07-12 23:24           ` Andrew Morton
2011-07-13 22:27             ` Hugh Dickins
2011-06-14 10:43 ` [PATCH 2/12] mm: let swap use exceptional entries Hugh Dickins
2011-06-18 21:52   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-07-12 22:08     ` Hugh Dickins
2011-07-13 23:11       ` Andrew Morton
2011-07-19 22:46         ` Hugh Dickins
2011-06-18 21:55   ` Andrew Morton
2011-07-12 22:35     ` Hugh Dickins
2011-06-14 10:45 ` [PATCH 3/12] tmpfs: demolish old swap vector support Hugh Dickins
2011-06-14 10:48 ` [PATCH 4/12] tmpfs: miscellaneous trivial cleanups Hugh Dickins
2011-06-14 10:49 ` [PATCH 5/12] tmpfs: copy truncate_inode_pages_range Hugh Dickins
2011-06-14 10:51 ` [PATCH 6/12] tmpfs: convert shmem_truncate_range to radix-swap Hugh Dickins
2011-06-14 10:52 ` [PATCH 7/12] tmpfs: convert shmem_unuse_inode " Hugh Dickins
2011-06-14 10:53 ` [PATCH 8/12] tmpfs: convert shmem_getpage_gfp " Hugh Dickins
2011-06-14 10:54 ` [PATCH 9/12] tmpfs: convert mem_cgroup shmem " Hugh Dickins
2011-06-14 10:56 ` [PATCH 10/12] tmpfs: convert shmem_writepage and enable swap Hugh Dickins
2011-06-14 10:57 ` [PATCH 11/12] tmpfs: use kmemdup for short symlinks Hugh Dickins
2011-06-14 11:16   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-06-14 10:59 ` [PATCH 12/12] mm: a few small updates for radix-swap Hugh Dickins
2011-06-15  0:49   ` [PATCH v2 " Hugh Dickins
2011-06-14 17:29 ` [PATCH 0/12] tmpfs: convert from old swap vector to radix tree Linus Torvalds
2011-06-14 18:20   ` Rik van Riel

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