Re: [PATCH 01/10] mm: turn migrate_vma upside down

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Aug 17 2019 - 07:33:23 EST


On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 05:11:07PM +0000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> - if (args->cpages)
> - migrate_vma_prepare(args);
> - if (args->cpages)
> - migrate_vma_unmap(args);
> + if (!args->cpages)
> + return 0;
> +
> + migrate_vma_prepare(args);
> + migrate_vma_unmap(args);

I don't think this is ok. Both migrate_vma_prepare and migrate_vma_unmap
can reduce args->cpages, including possibly to 0.