Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/page_vma_mapped: page table boundary is already guaranteed

Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-11-28T08:31:49Z

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 09:03:21AM +0800, Wei Yang wrote:
> The check here is to guarantee pvmw->address iteration is limited in one
> page table boundary. To be specific, here the address range should be in
> one PMD_SIZE.
>
> If my understanding is correct, this check is already done in the above
> check:
>
> address >= __vma_address(page, vma) + PMD_SIZE
>
> The boundary check here seems not necessary.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>

NAK.

THP can be mapped with PTE not aligned to PMD_SIZE. Consider mremap().

> Test:
> more than 48 hours kernel build test shows this code is not touched.

Not an argument. I doubt mremap(2) is ever called in kernel build
workload.

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Kirill A. Shutemov