Thread (65 messages) 65 messages, 3 authors, 2015-08-03

Re: [PATCHv9 25/36] mm, thp: remove infrastructure for handling splitting PMDs

From: Kirill A. Shutemov <hidden>
Date: 2015-08-03 10:41:15
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Subsystem: memory management, memory management - thp (transparent huge page), the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Morton, David Hildenbrand, Lorenzo Stoakes, Linus Torvalds

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 05:01:06PM +0200, Jerome Marchand wrote:
On 07/20/2015 04:20 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
quoted
@@ -1616,23 +1605,14 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
  * Note that if it returns 1, this routine returns without unlocking page
  * table locks. So callers must unlock them.
  */
The comment above should be updated.
Like this?
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index d32277463932..78a6c7cdf8f7 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1627,11 +1627,10 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
 }
 
 /*
- * Returns 1 if a given pmd maps a stable (not under splitting) thp.
- * Returns -1 if it maps a thp under splitting. Returns 0 otherwise.
+ * Returns true if a given pmd maps a thp, false otherwise.
  *
- * Note that if it returns 1, this routine returns without unlocking page
- * table locks. So callers must unlock them.
+ * Note that if it returns true, this routine returns without unlocking page
+ * table lock. So callers must unlock it.
  */
 bool __pmd_trans_huge_lock(pmd_t *pmd, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		spinlock_t **ptl)
-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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