Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: thp: Fix the update_mmu_cache() last argumentpassing in mm/huge_memory.c

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Sep 18 2012 - 15:33:40 EST


On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:38:33 +0200
Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 05:47:15PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
>
> > The update_mmu_cache() takes a pointer (to pte_t by default) as the last
> > argument but the huge_memory.c passes a pmd_t value. The patch changes
> > the argument to the pmd_t * pointer.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > mm/huge_memory.c | 6 +++---
> > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> > index 57c4b93..4aa6d02 100644
> > --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> > +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> > @@ -934,7 +934,7 @@ int do_huge_pmd_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> > entry = pmd_mkyoung(orig_pmd);
> > entry = maybe_pmd_mkwrite(pmd_mkdirty(entry), vma);
> > if (pmdp_set_access_flags(vma, haddr, pmd, entry, 1))
> > - update_mmu_cache(vma, address, entry);
> > + update_mmu_cache(vma, address, pmd);
>
> Documentation/cachetlb.txt will need an update as well. Currently it says:
>
> 5) void update_mmu_cache(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep)

Yes please.

> I would prefer we introduce something like update_mmu_cache_huge_page(vma,
> address, pmd) and leave the classic update_mmu_cache() unchanged.

Why?
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