Re: [PATCH 02/12] mm, thp, tmpfs: support to add huge page into pagecache for tmpfs

From: Ning Qu
Date: Wed Oct 16 2013 - 13:49:53 EST


Yes, I guess I can if I just put whatever inside the spin lock into a
common function. Thanks!
Best wishes,
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov
<kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ning Qu wrote:
>> Yes, I can try. The code is pretty much similar with some minor difference.
>>
>> One thing I can do is to move the spin lock part (together with the
>> corresponding err handling into a common function.
>>
>> The only problem I can see right now is we need the following
>> additional line for shm:
>>
>> __mod_zone_page_state(page_zone(page), NR_SHMEM, nr);
>>
>> Which means we need to tell if it's coming from shm or not, is that OK
>> to add additional parameter just for that? Or is there any other
>> better way we can infer that information? Thanks!
>
> I think you can account NR_SHMEM after common code succeed, don't you?
>
> --
> Kirill A. Shutemov
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