Re: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: flush dcache before returning zeroed hugepage to userspace

[Will Deacon]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 07:06:14PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 16-08-12 18:34:59, Will Deacon wrote:
> > I just did it that way to match the flag clearing for normal pages. I can
> > move it into dequeue if you think it's worthwhile but in the worst case it
> > just adds a clear_bit call, so I doubt it's measurable.
> 
> I do not have a strong opinion on that but the flags come in cleared when
> they are freshly allocated (gather_surplus_pages) so then it would be
> more appropriate in free_huge_page when enqueue_huge_page is called.

Makes sense, I'll move the call into free_huge_page.

Cheers,

Will
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