Re: [PATCH 10/12] hugetlb: batch PMD split for bulk vmemmap dedup

[Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>]

On 30/08/2023 12:13, Joao Martins wrote:
> On 30/08/2023 09:09, Muchun Song wrote:
>> On 2023/8/26 03:04, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>>> +
>>> +        /*
>>> +         * We are only splitting, not remapping the hugetlb vmemmap
>>> +         * pages.
>>> +         */
>>> +        if (bulk)
>>> +            continue;
>>
>> Actually, we don not need a flag to detect this situation, you could
>> use "!@walk->remap_pte" to determine whether we should go into the
>> next level traversal of the page table. ->remap_pte is used to traverse
>> the pte entry, so it make senses to continue to the next pmd entry if
>> it is NULL.
>>
> 
> Yeap, great suggestion.
> 
>>> +
>>>           vmemmap_pte_range(pmd, addr, next, walk);
>>>       } while (pmd++, addr = next, addr != end);
>>>   @@ -197,7 +211,8 @@ static int vmemmap_remap_range(unsigned long start,
>>> unsigned long end,
>>>               return ret;
>>>       } while (pgd++, addr = next, addr != end);
>>>   -    flush_tlb_kernel_range(start, end);
>>> +    if (!(walk->flags & VMEMMAP_REMAP_ONLY_SPLIT))
>>> +        flush_tlb_kernel_range(start, end);
>>
>> This could be:
>>
>>     if (walk->remap_pte)
>>         flush_tlb_kernel_range(start, end);
>>
> Yeap.
> 

Quite correction: This stays as is, except with a flag rename. That is because
this is actual flush that we intend to batch in the next patch. And while the
PMD split could just use !walk->remap_pte, the next patch would just need to
test NO_TLB_FLUSH flag. Meaning we endup anyways just testing for this
to-be-consolidated flag