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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend 1/2] mm: always use base address when clear gigantic page
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:56:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241025155615.bd9570fd6147ebd764c858fd@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241025004456.3435808-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>

On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 08:44:55 +0800 Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> wrote:

> When clear gigantic page, it zeros page from the first subpage to
> the last subpage, that is, aligned base address is needed in it,
> and we don't need to aligned down the address in the caller as the
> real address will be passed to process_huge_page().

Matthew just told us that folios con't have subpages
(https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZxsRCyBSO-C27Uzn@casper.infradead.org).

Please carefully describe the impact of this change.  I think it's
"small cleanup and optimization?"

Also, I find the changelog rather hard to follow.  I think we're adding
the alignment operation to the callee and hence removing it from the
caller?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-10-25 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-25  0:44 Kefeng Wang
2024-10-25  0:44 ` [PATCH resend 2/2] mm: always use base address when copy " Kefeng Wang
2024-10-25 22:56 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2024-10-26  1:34   ` [PATCH resend 1/2] mm: always use base address when clear " Kefeng Wang

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