Re: [PATCH][mm:] adjust the logic of checking THP

[Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>]

Perhaps a summary would help the people actually knowledgeable about mm
understand why this adjustment is needed.

I'll just mention a few obvious things.

On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 19:41 +0800, Guanjun He wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Guanjun He <heguanbo@gmail.com>
> ---
>  mm/memory.c |   32 ++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index a56e3ba..d6dd6b3 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -3465,20 +3465,24 @@ int handle_mm_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  	pmd = pmd_alloc(mm, pud, address);
>  	if (!pmd)
>  		return VM_FAULT_OOM;
> -	if (pmd_none(*pmd) && transparent_hugepage_enabled(vma)) {
> -		if (!vma->vm_ops)
> -			return do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(mm, vma, address,
> -							  pmd, flags);
> -	} else {
> -		pmd_t orig_pmd = *pmd;
> -		barrier();
> -		if (pmd_trans_huge(orig_pmd)) {
> -			if (flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE &&
> -			    !pmd_write(orig_pmd) &&
> -			    !pmd_trans_splitting(orig_pmd))
> -				return do_huge_pmd_wp_page(mm, vma, address,
> -							   pmd, orig_pmd);
> -			return 0;
> +	if (transparent_hugepage_enabled(vma)) {
> +		if(pmd_none(*pmd)){

codingstyle (scripts/checkpatch.pl would have caught that one).

> +			if (!vma->vm_ops)
> +				return do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(mm, vma, address,
> +						pmd, flags);
> +		}
> +		else
> +		{

codingstyle (ditto). There's probably more.

> +			pmd_t orig_pmd = *pmd;
> +			barrier();
> +			if (pmd_trans_huge(orig_pmd)) {
> +				if (flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE &&
> +						!pmd_write(orig_pmd) &&
> +						!pmd_trans_splitting(orig_pmd))
> +					return do_huge_pmd_wp_page(mm, vma, address,
> +							pmd, orig_pmd);
> +				return 0;
> +			}
>  		}
>  	}
>  


Paul Bolle