Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm, thp: introduce dedicated transparent huge page allocation interfaces

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Tue Oct 17 2017 - 07:12:53 EST


On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 05:19:16PM +0800, changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> @@ -501,6 +501,45 @@ void prep_transhuge_page(struct page *page)
> set_compound_page_dtor(page, TRANSHUGE_PAGE_DTOR);
> }
>
> +struct page *alloc_transhuge_page_vma(gfp_t gfp_mask,
> + struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr)
> +{
> + struct page *page;
> +
> + page = alloc_pages_vma(gfp_mask | __GFP_COMP, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER,
> + vma, addr, numa_node_id(), true);
> + if (unlikely(!page))
> + return NULL;
> + prep_transhuge_page(page);
> + return page;
> +}
> +
> +struct page *alloc_transhuge_page_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask,
> + int preferred_nid, nodemask_t *nmask)
> +{
> + struct page *page;
> +
> + page = __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_mask | __GFP_COMP, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER,
> + preferred_nid, nmask);
> + if (unlikely(!page))
> + return NULL;
> + prep_transhuge_page(page);
> + return page;
> +}
> +
> +struct page *alloc_transhuge_page(gfp_t gfp_mask)
> +{
> + struct page *page;
> +
> + VM_BUG_ON(!(gfp_mask & __GFP_COMP));

Why do you check for __GFP_COMP only in this helper?

> + page = alloc_pages(gfp_mask | __GFP_COMP, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);

And still apply __GFP_COMP anyway?

> + if (unlikely(!page))
> + return NULL;
> + prep_transhuge_page(page);
> + return page;
> +}
> +
> unsigned long __thp_get_unmapped_area(struct file *filp, unsigned long len,
> loff_t off, unsigned long flags, unsigned long size)
> {

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Kirill A. Shutemov