From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83014ECAAD4 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2022 02:18:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232484AbiH0CSt (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2022 22:18:49 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:51976 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S236435AbiH0CSr (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2022 22:18:47 -0400 Received: from szxga03-in.huawei.com (szxga03-in.huawei.com [45.249.212.189]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 255E71E3E0 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 19:18:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canpemm500002.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.54]) by szxga03-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4MF0hF1rX6zGpHJ; Sat, 27 Aug 2022 10:17:01 +0800 (CST) Received: from [10.174.177.76] (10.174.177.76) by canpemm500002.china.huawei.com (7.192.104.244) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2375.24; Sat, 27 Aug 2022 10:18:43 +0800 Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] hugetlb: remove unneeded SetHPageVmemmapOptimized() To: Muchun Song CC: Andrew Morton , Mike Kravetz , Muchun Song , Linux MM , References: <20220826092422.39591-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com> <20220826092422.39591-9-linmiaohe@huawei.com> From: Miaohe Lin Message-ID: Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2022 10:18:43 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Originating-IP: [10.174.177.76] X-ClientProxiedBy: dggems702-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.179) To canpemm500002.china.huawei.com (7.192.104.244) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2022/8/27 9:35, Muchun Song wrote: > > >> On Aug 26, 2022, at 17:24, Miaohe Lin wrote: >> >> If code reaches here, it's guaranteed that HPageVmemmapOptimized is set >> for the hugetlb page (or VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() will complain about it). It's > > Hi Miaohe, > > Right. > >> unnecessary to set it again. > > No, I suppose you didn’t test this patch since it does not work. The > HPageVmemmapOptimized is cleared in the above code of line > (set_page_private(page, 0)). So NAck. Sorry, I missed that and thanks for pointing this out. Does this code deserves a comment like below? diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index d0617d64d718..3374c1d2b52e 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -1522,6 +1522,10 @@ static void add_hugetlb_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page, set_compound_page_dtor(page, HUGETLB_PAGE_DTOR); set_page_private(page, 0); + /* + * We have to set HPageVmemmapOptimized again as above + * set_page_private(page, 0) cleared it. + */ SetHPageVmemmapOptimized(page); /* Thanks, Miaohe Lin