Re: [PATCH] pagemap: fix wrong KPF_THP on slab pages
From: Naoya Horiguchi <hidden>
Date: 2012-09-26 06:06:53
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From: Naoya Horiguchi <hidden>
Date: 2012-09-26 06:06:53
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On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:02:34AM -0400, Naoya Horiguchi wrote: ...
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+ * page is a thp, not a non-huge compound page. + */ + else if (PageTransCompound(page) && !PageSlab(page)) u |= 1 << KPF_THP;Good catch! Will this report THP for the various drivers that do __GFP_COMP page allocations?I'm afraid it will. I think of checking PageLRU as an alternative, but it needs compound_head() to report tail pages correctly. In this context, pages are not pinned or locked, so it's unsafe to use compound_head() because it can return a dangling pointer. Maybe it's a thp's/hugetlbfs's (not kpageflags specific) problem, so going forward with compound_head() expecting that it will be fixed in the future work can be an option.
It seems that compound_trans_head() solves this problem, so I'll simply use it. Naoya -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>