Re: [RFC v3 PATCH 04/10] mm/hugetlb: expose hugetlb fault mutex for use by fallocate

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Fri May 22 2015 - 13:01:40 EST


On Thu, 2015-05-21 at 08:47 -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> +/*
> + * Interfaces to the fault mutex routines for use by hugetlbfs
> + * fallocate code. Faults must be synchronized with page adds or
> + * deletes by fallocate. fallocate only deals with shared mappings.
> + */
> +u32 hugetlb_fault_mutex_shared_hash(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t idx)
> +{
> + return fault_mutex_hash(NULL, NULL, NULL, mapping, idx, 0);
> +}
> +
> +void hugetlb_fault_mutex_lock(u32 hash)
> +{
> + mutex_lock(&htlb_fault_mutex_table[hash]);
> +}
> +
> +void hugetlb_fault_mutex_unlock(u32 hash)
> +{
> + mutex_unlock(&htlb_fault_mutex_table[hash]);
> +}+

These should really be inlined -- maybe add them to hugetlb.h along with
the mutex hashtable bits.

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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