Re: [PATCH 2/3] hugetlb: Use vmf_anon_prepare() instead of anon_vma_prepare()

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Tue Feb 20 2024 - 22:50:29 EST


On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 03:14:23PM -0800, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -5834,9 +5834,15 @@ static vm_fault_t hugetlb_wp(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> struct folio *old_folio;
> struct folio *new_folio;
> int outside_reserve = 0;
> - vm_fault_t ret = 0;
> + vm_fault_t ret = 0, anon_ret = 0;

Do we need a second variable here? Seems to me like we could
unconditionally assign to ret:

> - if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma))) {
> - ret = VM_FAULT_OOM;
> + anon_ret = vmf_anon_prepare(&vmf);
> + if (unlikely(anon_ret)) {
> + ret = anon_ret;



> unsigned long haddr = address & huge_page_mask(h);
> struct mmu_notifier_range range;
> + struct vm_fault vmf = {
> + .vma = vma,
> + .address = haddr,
> + .real_address = address,
> + .flags = flags,
> + };

We don't usually indent quite so far. One extra tab would be enough.

Also, I thought we talked about creating the vmf in hugetlb_fault(),
then passing it to hugetlb_wp() hugetlb_no_page() and handle_userfault()?
Was there a reason to abandon that idea?