Re: [PATCH 04/10] hugetlb: hugepage migration core

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Sep 03 2010 - 10:10:18 EST


On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:

> diff --git v2.6.36-rc2/mm/vmscan.c v2.6.36-rc2/mm/vmscan.c
> index c391c32..69ce2a3 100644
> --- v2.6.36-rc2/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ v2.6.36-rc2/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
> #include <linux/memcontrol.h>
> #include <linux/delayacct.h>
> #include <linux/sysctl.h>
> +#include <linux/hugetlb.h>
>
> #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
> #include <asm/div64.h>
> @@ -508,6 +509,10 @@ void putback_lru_page(struct page *page)
>
> VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page));
>
> + if (PageHuge(page)) {
> + put_page(page);
> + return;
> + }
> redo:
> ClearPageUnevictable(page);
>
> @@ -1112,7 +1117,9 @@ int isolate_lru_page(struct page *page)
> {
> int ret = -EBUSY;
>
> - if (PageLRU(page)) {
> + if (PageHuge(page) && get_page_unless_zero(compound_head(page)))
> + ret = 0;
> + else if (PageLRU(page)) {
> struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);
>
> spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
>

Huge pages are not on the LRU right? So why use the lru functions for
them and then not use the lru? Its a bit stranger. The caller must aware
of the different handling of huge pages since there is no toying around
with the lru. So just have the caller do a put or get page instead.

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