Re: [PATCH] hugetlb: simplify hugetlb handling in follow_page_mask

[David Hildenbrand]

>>> Adding Christophe on Cc:
>>>
>>> Christophe do you know if is_hugepd is true for all hugetlb entries, not
>>> just hugepd?
>>>
>>> On systems without hugepd entries, I guess ptdump skips all hugetlb entries.
>>> Sigh!
>>
>> IIUC, the idea of ptdump_walk_pgd() is to dump page tables even outside
>> VMAs (for debugging purposes?).
>>
>> I cannot convince myself that that's a good idea when only holding the
>> mmap lock in read mode, because we can just see page tables getting
>> freed concurrently e.g., during concurrent munmap() ... while holding
>> the mmap lock in read we may only walk inside VMA boundaries.
>>
>> That then raises the questions if we're only calling this on special MMs
>> (e.g., init_mm) whereby we cannot really see concurrent munmap() and
>> where we shouldn't have hugetlb mappings or hugepd entries.
>>
> 
> This is going to require a little more thought.
> 
> Since Baolin's patch for stable releases is moving forward, I want to
> get the cleanup provided by this patch in ASAP.  So, I am going to rebase
> this patch on Baolin's with the other fixups.
> 
> Will come back to this cleanup later.

Sure, no need to do it all at once (I was just bringing it up while
thinking about it).

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb