Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: thp: give transparent hugepage code a separatecopy_page

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Wed Nov 06 2013 - 11:35:25 EST


On 11/06/2013 05:46 AM, Hillf Danton wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> +
>> +void copy_high_order_page(struct page *newpage,
>> + struct page *oldpage,
>> + int order)
>> +{
>> + int i;
>> +
>> + might_sleep();
>> + for (i = 0; i < (1<<order); i++) {
>> + cond_resched();
>> + copy_highpage(newpage + i, oldpage + i);
>> + }
>> +}
>
> Can we make no use of might_sleep here with cond_resched in loop?

I'm not sure what you're saying.

Are you pointing out that cond_resched() actually calls might_sleep() so
the might_sleep() is redundant?

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