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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
	Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
	Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
	Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 9/9] mm/hugetlb: Introduce hugetlb_walk()
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 17:12:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0616b909-b851-0f00-2bd9-f86562af6342@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221216155229.2043750-1-peterx@redhat.com>

On 16.12.22 16:52, Peter Xu wrote:
> huge_pte_offset() is the main walker function for hugetlb pgtables.  The
> name is not really representing what it does, though.
> 
> Instead of renaming it, introduce a wrapper function called hugetlb_walk()
> which will use huge_pte_offset() inside.  Assert on the locks when walking
> the pgtable.
> 
> Note, the vma lock assertion will be a no-op for private mappings.
> 
> Document the last special case in the page_vma_mapped_walk() path where we
> don't need any more lock to call hugetlb_walk().

That looks cleaner and the lock assertions are IMHO a very good idea.

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>


-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb



      reply	other threads:[~2022-12-16 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-16 15:50 [PATCH v4 0/9] mm/hugetlb: Make huge_pte_offset() thread-safe for pmd unshare Peter Xu
2022-12-16 15:50 ` [PATCH v4 1/9] mm/hugetlb: Let vma_offset_start() to return start Peter Xu
2022-12-16 15:50 ` [PATCH v4 2/9] mm/hugetlb: Don't wait for migration entry during follow page Peter Xu
2022-12-16 15:50 ` [PATCH v4 3/9] mm/hugetlb: Document huge_pte_offset usage Peter Xu
2022-12-16 15:50 ` [PATCH v4 4/9] mm/hugetlb: Move swap entry handling into vma lock when faulted Peter Xu
2022-12-16 15:52 ` [PATCH v4 5/9] mm/hugetlb: Make userfaultfd_huge_must_wait() safe to pmd unshare Peter Xu
2022-12-16 15:52 ` [PATCH v4 6/9] mm/hugetlb: Make hugetlb_follow_page_mask() " Peter Xu
2022-12-16 15:52 ` [PATCH v4 7/9] mm/hugetlb: Make follow_hugetlb_page() " Peter Xu
2022-12-16 15:52 ` [PATCH v4 8/9] mm/hugetlb: Make walk_hugetlb_range() " Peter Xu
2022-12-16 15:52 ` [PATCH v4 9/9] mm/hugetlb: Introduce hugetlb_walk() Peter Xu
2022-12-16 16:12   ` David Hildenbrand [this message]

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