Re: [PATCHv9 25/36] mm, thp: remove infrastructure for handling splitting PMDs

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Mon Aug 03 2015 - 06:41:18 EST


On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 05:01:06PM +0200, Jerome Marchand wrote:
> On 07/20/2015 04:20 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > @@ -1616,23 +1605,14 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
> > * Note that if it returns 1, this routine returns without unlocking page
> > * table locks. So callers must unlock them.
> > */
>
> The comment above should be updated.

Like this?

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index d32277463932..78a6c7cdf8f7 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1627,11 +1627,10 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
}

/*
- * Returns 1 if a given pmd maps a stable (not under splitting) thp.
- * Returns -1 if it maps a thp under splitting. Returns 0 otherwise.
+ * Returns true if a given pmd maps a thp, false otherwise.
*
- * Note that if it returns 1, this routine returns without unlocking page
- * table locks. So callers must unlock them.
+ * Note that if it returns true, this routine returns without unlocking page
+ * table lock. So callers must unlock it.
*/
bool __pmd_trans_huge_lock(pmd_t *pmd, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
spinlock_t **ptl)
--
Kirill A. Shutemov
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