Re: [PATCHv4 23/39] thp: wait_split_huge_page(): serialize over i_mmap_mutextoo

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Mon Jun 03 2013 - 11:53:25 EST



On 06/03/2013 08:02 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Dave Hansen wrote:
>> On 05/11/2013 06:23 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>>> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> -#define wait_split_huge_page(__anon_vma, __pmd) \
>>> +#define wait_split_huge_page(__vma, __pmd) \
>>> do { \
>>> pmd_t *____pmd = (__pmd); \
>>> - anon_vma_lock_write(__anon_vma); \
>>> - anon_vma_unlock_write(__anon_vma); \
>>> + struct address_space *__mapping = \
>>> + vma->vm_file->f_mapping; \
>>> + struct anon_vma *__anon_vma = (__vma)->anon_vma; \
>>> + if (__mapping) \
>>> + mutex_lock(&__mapping->i_mmap_mutex); \
>>> + if (__anon_vma) { \
>>> + anon_vma_lock_write(__anon_vma); \
>>> + anon_vma_unlock_write(__anon_vma); \
>>> + } \
>>> + if (__mapping) \
>>> + mutex_unlock(&__mapping->i_mmap_mutex); \
>>> BUG_ON(pmd_trans_splitting(*____pmd) || \
>>> pmd_trans_huge(*____pmd)); \
>>> } while (0)
...
>> Could you also describe the lengths to which you've gone to try and keep
>> this macro from growing in to any larger of an abomination. Is it truly
>> _impossible_ to turn this in to a normal function? Or will it simply be
>> a larger amount of work that you can do right now? What would it take?
>
> Okay, I've tried once again. The patch is below. It looks too invasive for
> me. What do you think?

That patch looks great to me, actually. It really looks to just be
superficially moving code around. The diffstat is even too:

> include/linux/huge_mm.h | 35 ++++++++++++++--------------
> include/linux/mm.h | 24 +++++++++++++++++--
> include/linux/mm_types.h | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/rmap.h | 58 -----------------------------------------------
> mm/memory.c | 8 +++---
> 5 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)

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