Re: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: use PageCompound() instead of PageReserved()

[Mika Penttilä]

Hi,


On 19.7.2023 9.31, Muchun Song wrote:
> The ckeck of PageReserved() is easy to be broken in the future, PageCompound()
> is more stable to check if the page should be split.
>
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c | 4 +++-
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
> index 4b9734777f69..8068fe890f52 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
> @@ -73,8 +73,10 @@ static int split_vmemmap_huge_pmd(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long start)
>   		 * be treated as indepdenent small pages (as they can be freed
>   		 * individually).
>   		 */
> -		if (!PageReserved(head))
> +		if (PageCompound(head)) {
> +			VM_BUG_ON(compound_order(head) != get_order(PMD_SIZE));
>   			split_page(head, get_order(PMD_SIZE));

I think vmemmap pages are not compound pages (even order > 0).
They would bug on here trying to split_page() :


void split_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
{
        int i;

        VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageCompound(page), page);


> +		}
>   
>   		/* Make pte visible before pmd. See comment in pmd_install(). */
>   		smp_wmb();

--Mika