From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: hughd@google.com, kirill@shutemov.name, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: THP handling with driver compound page on fault
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 17:22:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YBS00HP4KolDCWTU@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210130010002.GE308988@casper.infradead.org>
Hi Mattew,
On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 01:00:02AM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 04:13:07PM -0800, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > A custom driver overrides (vm_operations_struct.fault) and map their
> > compound page(__GFP_COMP) to page table on userprocess on demand.
>
> You're looking to backport:
>
> commit d01ac3c35214ce362f50cada37cb7bab8c801896
> Author: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
> Date: Thu Oct 15 20:05:26 2020 -0700
>
> mm/memory: remove page fault assumption of compound page size
>
I guess you meant the check below.
if (compound_order(page) != HPAGE_PMD_ORDER)
What happens if driver allcoated HPAGE_PMD_ORDER size?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-30 1:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-30 0:13 THP handling with driver compound page on fault Minchan Kim
2021-01-30 1:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-01-30 1:22 ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2021-01-30 1:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-01-30 1:49 ` Minchan Kim
2021-01-30 2:09 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-01-30 2:40 ` Minchan Kim
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