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From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	 "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	 "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] mm: Remove CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 14:54:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKgT0UfgTu1E4UbprPHWkqrE7GVQAY+zncriTUAiWJtBNKn46w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200303223401.GX29971@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 2:34 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 01:52:10PM -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 8:11 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> > > @@ -1986,14 +1984,10 @@ static unsigned int khugepaged_scan_mm_slot(unsigned int pages,
> > >                                   khugepaged_scan.address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE >
> > >                                   hend);
> > >                         if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SHMEM) && vma->vm_file) {
> > > -                               struct file *file;
> > > +                               struct file *file = get_file(vma->vm_file);
> > >                                 pgoff_t pgoff = linear_page_index(vma,
> > >                                                 khugepaged_scan.address);
> > >
> > > -                               if (shmem_file(vma->vm_file)
> > > -                                   && !shmem_huge_enabled(vma))
> > > -                                       goto skip;
> > > -                               file = get_file(vma->vm_file);
> >
> > In the code above you didn't eliminate shmem_huge_enabled, it still
> > exists and has multiple paths that can return false. Are we guaranteed
> > that it will return true or is it that it can be ignored here?
>
> It probably helps to read this in conjunction with e496cf3d7821 --
> that patch did this:
>
>                         if (shmem_file(vma->vm_file)) {
> -                               struct file *file = get_file(vma->vm_file);
> +                               struct file *file;
>                                 pgoff_t pgoff = linear_page_index(vma,
>                                                 khugepaged_scan.address);
> +                               if (!shmem_huge_enabled(vma))
> +                                       goto skip;
> +                               file = get_file(vma->vm_file);
>                                 up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
>
> so I'm just undoing that.

It looks like you are only doing a partial revert though. The original
changes in the function were:
@@ -1681,8 +1683,6 @@ static unsigned int
khugepaged_scan_mm_slot(unsigned int pages,
                if (khugepaged_scan.address < hstart)
                        khugepaged_scan.address = hstart;
                VM_BUG_ON(khugepaged_scan.address & ~HPAGE_PMD_MASK);
-               if (shmem_file(vma->vm_file) && !shmem_huge_enabled(vma))
-                       goto skip;

                while (khugepaged_scan.address < hend) {
                        int ret;
@@ -1694,9 +1694,12 @@ static unsigned int
khugepaged_scan_mm_slot(unsigned int pages,
                                  khugepaged_scan.address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE >
                                  hend);
                        if (shmem_file(vma->vm_file)) {
-                               struct file *file = get_file(vma->vm_file);
+                               struct file *file;
                                pgoff_t pgoff = linear_page_index(vma,
                                                khugepaged_scan.address);
+                               if (!shmem_huge_enabled(vma))
+                                       goto skip;
+                               file = get_file(vma->vm_file);
                                up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
                                ret = 1;
                                khugepaged_scan_shmem(mm, file->f_mapping,

You reverted the second piece, but I didn't notice you reverting the
first. WIth the first piece being reverted it would make more sense as
you would just be skipping the block that much sooner.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-03 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-03  4:11 [PATCH 0/6] Misc MM patches Matthew Wilcox
2020-03-03  4:11 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm: Use vm_fault error code directly Matthew Wilcox
2020-03-03  4:11 ` [PATCH 2/6] mm: Optimise find_subpage for !THP Matthew Wilcox
2020-03-03 21:28   ` Alexander Duyck
2020-03-03 21:47     ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-03-05  9:54       ` William Kucharski
2020-03-03  4:11 ` [PATCH 3/6] mm: Remove CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE Matthew Wilcox
2020-03-03 21:52   ` Alexander Duyck
2020-03-03 22:34     ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-03-03 22:54       ` Alexander Duyck [this message]
2020-03-04  2:06         ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-03-03  4:11 ` [PATCH 4/6] mm: Use VM_BUG_ON_PAGE in clear_page_dirty_for_io Matthew Wilcox
2020-03-03  4:11 ` [PATCH 5/6] mm: Unexport find_get_entry Matthew Wilcox
2020-03-03  4:11 ` [PATCH 6/6] mm: Rewrite pagecache_get_page documentation Matthew Wilcox

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