Re: [RFC PATCH v2 03/47] hugetlb: remove redundant pte_mkhuge in migration path

From: Mina Almasry
Date: Wed Dec 07 2022 - 18:16:41 EST


On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 9:37 AM James Houghton <jthoughton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> arch_make_huge_pte, which is called immediately following pte_mkhuge,
> already makes the necessary changes to the PTE that pte_mkhuge would
> have. The generic implementation of arch_make_huge_pte simply calls
> pte_mkhuge.
>
> Signed-off-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> mm/migrate.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
> index 8e5eb6ed9da2..1457cdbb7828 100644
> --- a/mm/migrate.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -237,7 +237,6 @@ static bool remove_migration_pte(struct folio *folio,
> if (folio_test_hugetlb(folio)) {
> unsigned int shift = huge_page_shift(hstate_vma(vma));
>
> - pte = pte_mkhuge(pte);
> pte = arch_make_huge_pte(pte, shift, vma->vm_flags);
> if (folio_test_anon(folio))
> hugepage_add_anon_rmap(new, vma, pvmw.address,
> --
> 2.38.0.135.g90850a2211-goog
>