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From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 5/7] mm: Make alloc_contig_range handle free hugetlb pages
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 10:29:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YHf5bW9GTxeSwfZN@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YHWfQjegLi4xekhM@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 03:40:18PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > +		/*
> > +		 * Call __prep_new_huge_page() to construct the hugetlb page, and
> > +		 * enqueue it then to place it in the freelists. After this,
> > +		 * counters are back on track. Free hugepages have a refcount of 0,
> > +		 * so we need to decrease new_page's count as well.
> > +		 */
> > +		__prep_new_huge_page(new_page);
> > +		__prep_account_new_huge_page(h, nid);
> 
> I think it would help to put something like the following into the
> comment above this really strange construct.
> 
> 		/*
> 		 * new_page needs to be initialized with the standard
> 		 * hugetlb state. This is normally done by
> 		 * prep_new_huge_page but that takes hugetlb_lock which
> 		 * is already held so we need to open code it here.
> 		 * Reference count trick is needed because allocator
> 		 * gives us referenced page but the pool requires pages
> 		 * with 0 refcount.
> 		 */

Ok, I will try to add more info, thanks Michal!

-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-15  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-13 10:47 [PATCH v7 0/7] Make alloc_contig_range handle Hugetlb pages Oscar Salvador
2021-04-13 10:47 ` [PATCH v7 1/7] mm,page_alloc: Bail out earlier on -ENOMEM in alloc_contig_migrate_range Oscar Salvador
2021-04-13 17:00   ` Mike Kravetz
2021-04-13 10:47 ` [PATCH v7 2/7] mm,compaction: Let isolate_migratepages_{range,block} return error codes Oscar Salvador
2021-04-13 17:52   ` Mike Kravetz
2021-04-14 11:54   ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-15  8:42     ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-13 10:47 ` [PATCH v7 3/7] mm,hugetlb: Clear HPageFreed outside of the lock Oscar Salvador
2021-04-13 13:23   ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-13 21:19     ` Mike Kravetz
2021-04-14  6:04       ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-14  7:41         ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-14  8:28           ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-14 10:01             ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-14 10:03               ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-14 10:32               ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-14 10:49                 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-14 11:09                   ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-14 12:02                     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-14 16:45                   ` Mike Kravetz
2021-04-13 10:47 ` [PATCH v7 4/7] mm,hugetlb: Split prep_new_huge_page functionality Oscar Salvador
2021-04-13 13:24   ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-13 13:26     ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-13 21:33   ` Mike Kravetz
2021-04-14  4:59     ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-14 12:15       ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-14 17:03       ` Mike Kravetz
2021-04-13 10:47 ` [PATCH v7 5/7] mm: Make alloc_contig_range handle free hugetlb pages Oscar Salvador
2021-04-13 13:40   ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-15  8:29     ` Oscar Salvador [this message]
2021-04-13 22:29   ` Mike Kravetz
2021-04-14  4:54     ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-14 12:26   ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-15  8:28     ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-13 10:47 ` [PATCH v7 6/7] mm: Make alloc_contig_range handle in-use " Oscar Salvador
2021-04-13 22:48   ` Mike Kravetz
2021-04-14  4:52     ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-14 17:07       ` Mike Kravetz
2021-04-13 10:47 ` [PATCH v7 7/7] mm,page_alloc: Drop unnecessary checks from pfn_range_valid_contig Oscar Salvador
2021-04-13 22:53   ` Mike Kravetz

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