Re: [PATCH 0/4] A few cleanup and fixup patches for migration

From: ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue Apr 12 2022 - 04:38:03 EST


On Tue, 2022-04-12 at 11:29 +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> On 2022/4/12 10:25, ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Sat, 2022-04-09 at 15:38 +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > > This series contains a few patches to remove unneeded lock page and
> > > PageMovable check, reduce the rcu lock duration. Also we fix potential
> > > pte_unmap on an not mapped pte. More details can be found in the
> > > respective changelogs. Thanks!
> >
> > It appears that you ignored my comments for the previous version. Can
> > you check it?
>
> I do remember [1] and I tried to make isolate_huge_page consistent with isolate_lru_page.
> But their return value conventions are different. isolate_huge_page return 0 when
> success while isolate_huge_page returns true in this case. So make them consistent
> would lead to many code change. I should have added this in my changelog.

I found that there are only 7 callers of isolate_huge_page(). It sounds
like something that is still doable.

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying

> Thanks.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/8735jsgctq.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
>
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Huang, Ying
> >
> > > ---
> > > v1:
> > >   rebase [1] on mainline.
> > >
> > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220304093409.25829-2-linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx/T/
> > > ---
> > > Miaohe Lin (4):
> > >   mm/migration: reduce the rcu lock duration
> > >   mm/migration: remove unneeded lock page and PageMovable check
> > >   mm/migration: return errno when isolate_huge_page failed
> > >   mm/migration: fix potential pte_unmap on an not mapped pte
> > >
> > >  include/linux/migrate.h | 2 +-
> > >  include/linux/swapops.h | 4 ++--
> > >  mm/filemap.c | 10 +++++-----
> > >  mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +-
> > >  mm/migrate.c | 31 +++++++++++++------------------
> > >  5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > .
> >
>