Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] hugetlbfs: add swap entry check in follow_hugetlb_page()

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Tue Apr 09 2013 - 21:54:20 EST


> I rewrite the comment here, how about this?
>
> - if (absent ||
> + /*
> + * We need call hugetlb_fault for both hugepages under migration
> + * (in which case hugetlb_fault waits for the migration,) and
> + * hwpoisoned hugepages (in which case we need to prevent the
> + * caller from accessing to them.) In order to do this, we use
> + * here is_swap_pte instead of is_hugetlb_entry_migration and
> + * is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned. This is because it simply covers
> + * both cases, and because we can't follow correct pages directly
> + * from any kind of swap entries.
> + */
> + if (absent || is_swap_pte(huge_ptep_get(pte)) ||
> ((flags & FOLL_WRITE) && !pte_write(huge_ptep_get(pte)))) {
> int ret;

Looks ok to me.
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