Re: [PATCH v20 05/20] mm/thp: Simplify lru_add_page_tail()

Johannes Weiner
2020-10-29T14:03:22Z

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 06:44:50PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> Simplify lru_add_page_tail(), there are actually only two cases possible:
> split_huge_page_to_list(), with list supplied and head isolated from lru
> by its caller; or split_huge_page(), with NULL list and head on lru -
> because when head is racily isolated from lru, the isolator's reference
> will stop the split from getting any further than its page_ref_freeze().
>
> So decide between the two cases by "list", but add VM_WARN_ON()s to
> verify that they match our lru expectations.
>
> [Hugh Dickins: rewrite commit log]
> Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Cc: Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@nextfour.com>
> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>