From: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
To: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/8] hugetlb: create remove_hugetlb_page() to separate functionality
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 11:03:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5f7bd4f5-785d-caf9-38d3-76ccdb9f3d49@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210412073307.GB27818@linux>
On 4/12/21 12:33 AM, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 01:52:50PM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>> The new remove_hugetlb_page() routine is designed to remove a hugetlb
>> page from hugetlbfs processing. It will remove the page from the active
>> or free list, update global counters and set the compound page
>> destructor to NULL so that PageHuge() will return false for the 'page'.
>> After this call, the 'page' can be treated as a normal compound page or
>> a collection of base size pages.
>>
>> update_and_free_page no longer decrements h->nr_huge_pages{_node} as
>> this is performed in remove_hugetlb_page. The only functionality
>> performed by update_and_free_page is to free the base pages to the lower
>> level allocators.
>>
>> update_and_free_page is typically called after remove_hugetlb_page.
>>
>> remove_hugetlb_page is to be called with the hugetlb_lock held.
>>
>> Creating this routine and separating functionality is in preparation for
>> restructuring code to reduce lock hold times. This commit should not
>> introduce any changes to functionality.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
>> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
>
> A "nit" below:
>
>> static void update_and_free_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page)
>> {
>> int i;
>> @@ -1334,8 +1369,6 @@ static void update_and_free_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page)
>
> After this, update_and_free_page()'s job is to reset subpage's flags and free
> the page.
> Maybe we want to rename that function at some point, or maybe not as "update" might
> already imply that. Just speaking out loud.
Thanks Oscar,
I did not think about a name change as the routine is still "updating"
subpages before freeing. We can certainly keep this in mind in the future,
especially if there are more functionality changes.
--
Mike Kravetz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-12 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-09 20:52 [PATCH v5 0/8] make hugetlb put_page safe for all calling contexts Mike Kravetz
2021-04-09 20:52 ` [PATCH v5 1/8] mm/cma: change cma mutex to irq safe spinlock Mike Kravetz
2021-04-09 20:52 ` [PATCH v5 2/8] hugetlb: no need to drop hugetlb_lock to call cma_release Mike Kravetz
2021-04-09 20:52 ` [PATCH v5 3/8] hugetlb: add per-hstate mutex to synchronize user adjustments Mike Kravetz
2021-04-09 20:52 ` [PATCH v5 4/8] hugetlb: create remove_hugetlb_page() to separate functionality Mike Kravetz
2021-04-12 7:33 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-12 18:03 ` Mike Kravetz [this message]
2021-04-09 20:52 ` [PATCH v5 5/8] hugetlb: call update_and_free_page without hugetlb_lock Mike Kravetz
2021-04-09 20:52 ` [PATCH v5 6/8] hugetlb: change free_pool_huge_page to remove_pool_huge_page Mike Kravetz
2021-04-09 20:52 ` [PATCH v5 7/8] hugetlb: make free_huge_page irq safe Mike Kravetz
2021-04-09 20:52 ` [PATCH v5 8/8] hugetlb: add lockdep_assert_held() calls for hugetlb_lock Mike Kravetz
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