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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Subject: Re: a question of split_huge_page
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 19:07:50 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200709160750.utl46xvavceuvnom@box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200709155002.GF12769@casper.infradead.org>

On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 04:50:02PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 11:11:11PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> > Hi Kirill & Matthew,
> > 
> > In the func call chain, from split_huge_page() to lru_add_page_tail(),
> > Seems tail pages are added to lru list at line 963, but in this scenario
> > the head page has no lru bit and isn't set the bit later. Why we do this?
> > or do I miss sth?
> 
> I don't understand how we get to split_huge_page() with a page that's
> not on an LRU list.  Both anonymous and page cache pages should be on
> an LRU list.  What am I missing?

Right, and it's never got removed from LRU during the split. The tail
pages have to be added to LRU because they now separate from the tail
page.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov


  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-09 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-09 15:11 Alex Shi
2020-07-09 15:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-09 16:07   ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2020-07-10  4:51     ` Alex Shi
2020-07-10  5:28       ` Mika Penttilä
2020-07-10  7:00         ` Alex Shi
2020-07-10  7:22           ` Mika Penttilä
2020-07-10  9:34         ` Alex Shi
2020-07-10 12:56           ` Joerg Roedel
2020-07-10 17:29           ` Yang Shi
2020-07-10 10:33       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-07-10 14:23         ` Alex Shi

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