Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/page_vma_mapped: use PMD_SIZE instead of calculating it

Wei Yang
2019-12-03T15:14:47Z

On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 12:47:30PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 10:21:51PM +0000, Wei Yang wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 11:03:15AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>> >On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 09:22:26PM +0000, Wei Yang wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 11:32:55AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>> >> >On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 09:03:20AM +0800, Wei Yang wrote:
>> >> >> At this point, we are sure page is PageTransHuge, which means
>> >> >> hpage_nr_pages is HPAGE_PMD_NR.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> This is safe to use PMD_SIZE instead of calculating it.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
>> >> >> ---
>> >> >> mm/page_vma_mapped.c | 2 +-
>> >> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >> >>
>> >> >> diff --git a/mm/page_vma_mapped.c b/mm/page_vma_mapped.c
>> >> >> index eff4b4520c8d..76e03650a3ab 100644
>> >> >> --- a/mm/page_vma_mapped.c
>> >> >> +++ b/mm/page_vma_mapped.c
>> >> >> @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ bool page_vma_mapped_walk(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
>> >> >> if (pvmw->address >= pvmw->vma->vm_end ||
>> >> >> pvmw->address >=
>> >> >> __vma_address(pvmw->page, pvmw->vma) +
>> >> >> - hpage_nr_pages(pvmw->page) * PAGE_SIZE)
>> >> >> + PMD_SIZE)
>> >> >> return not_found(pvmw);
>> >> >> /* Did we cross page table boundary? */
>> >> >> if (pvmw->address % PMD_SIZE == 0) {
>> >> >
>> >> >It is dubious cleanup. Maybe page_size(pvmw->page) instead? It will not
>> >> >break if we ever get PUD THP pages.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for your comment.
>> >>
>> >> I took a look into the code again and found I may miss something.
>> >>
>> >> I found we support PUD THP pages, whilc hpage_nr_pages() just return
>> >> HPAGE_PMD_NR on PageTransHuge. Why this is not possible to return PUD number?
>> >
>> >We only support PUD THP for DAX. Means, we don't have struct page for it.
>> >
>>
>> BTW, may I ask why you suggest to use page_size() if we are sure only PMD THP
>> page is used here? To be more generic?
>
>Yeah. I would rather not touch it at all.
>

Got it, thanks.

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