Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] mm/hugetlb: compute/return the number of regions added by region_add()

From: Naoya Horiguchi
Date: Thu May 28 2015 - 21:50:37 EST


On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:56:10AM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> Modify region_add() to keep track of regions(pages) added to the
> reserve map and return this value. The return value can be
> compared to the return value of region_chg() to determine if the
> map was modified between calls.
>
> Make vma_commit_reservation() also pass along the return value of
> region_add(). In the normal case, we want vma_commit_reservation
> to return the same value as the preceding call to vma_needs_reservation.
> Create a common __vma_reservation_common routine to help keep the
> special case return values in sync
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>--
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