Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] hugetlb: convert PageHugeTemporary() to HPageTempSurplus

[Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>]

On 1/15/21 2:16 AM, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 01:01:52PM -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>> Use new hugetlb specific flag HPageTempSurplus to replace the
>> PageHugeTemporary() interfaces.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
>> ---
>>  mm/hugetlb.c | 38 +++++++++-----------------------------
>>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
>> index 34ce82f4823c..949e1f987319 100644
>> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
>> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
>> @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ static unsigned long hugetlb_cma_size __initdata;
>>  enum htlb_page_flags {
>>  	HPAGE_RestoreReserve = 0,
>>  	HPAGE_Migratable,
>> +	HPAGE_TempSurplus,
>>  };
>>  
>>  /*
>> @@ -99,6 +100,7 @@ void ClearHPage##flname(struct page *page)	\
>>  
>>  HPAGEFLAG(RestoreReserve)
>>  EXT_HPAGEFLAG(Migratable)
>> +HPAGEFLAG(TempSurplus)
> 
> Would HPAGE_Temporary/Temporary not be a better fit?

Yes it would.

> The point about current PageHugeTemporary is that these pages are temporary as
> they do not belong to the pool and will vanish once the last reference gets drop.
> We do not really care that much about the surplus part?
> 
> Besides, alloc_migrate_huge_page seems to not want to thread these pages as surplus.
> 

All correct, not sure why I was thinking 'surplus' when naming the flag.

> Also, I would add a comment either next to each flag or above
> the enum htlb_page_flags (probably the latter) with a brief explanation
> of each flag.

Will do.

-- 
Mike Kravetz

> Besides that, it looks fine to me.
> Here I do not see the same problem in
> stripping the PageHuge check in PageHugeTemporary, as I did in previous patch,
> because all callers of it make sure they operate on a hugetlb page.
>