Re: [PATCH -mm -v4 03/21] mm, THP, swap: Support PMD swap mapping in swap_duplicate()

From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
To: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
	Zi Yan <zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu>,
	Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm -v4 03/21] mm, THP, swap: Support PMD swap mapping in swap_duplicate()
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 06:50:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1b8a9fa8-79a3-c515-26b1-cea6d9eb9aeb@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878t6jio7x.fsf@yhuang-dev.intel.com>

> Yes.  Boolean parameter isn't good at most times.  Matthew Wilcox
> suggested to use
> 
>         swap_duplicate(&entry, HPAGE_PMD_NR);
> 
> vs.
> 
>         swap_duplicate(&entry, 1);
> 
> He thinks this makes the interface more flexible to support other swap
> entry size in the future.  What do you think about that?

That looks great to me too.

>>>  		if (likely(!non_swap_entry(entry))) {
>>> -			if (swap_duplicate(entry) < 0)
>>> +			if (swap_duplicate(&entry, false) < 0)
>>>  				return entry.val;
>>>  
>>>  			/* make sure dst_mm is on swapoff's mmlist. */
>>
>> I'll also point out that in a multi-hundred-line patch, adding arguments
>> to a existing function would not be something I'd try to include in the
>> patch.  I'd break it out separately unless absolutely necessary.
> 
> You mean add another patch, which only adds arguments to the function,
> but not change the body of the function?

Yes.  Or, just add the non-THP-swap version first.