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From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 2/3] mm: Add PUD level pagetable account
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2022 23:07:47 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <68a5286b-7ff3-2c4e-1ab2-305e7860a2f3@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YsGtPnfB4/A8pFhA@casper.infradead.org>



On 7/3/2022 10:52 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 10:06:32PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
>> So for kernel pte page table allocation, I need another similar helpers like
>> below. However they do the samething with
>> pgtable_pud_page_ctor/pgtable_pud_page_dtor, so I am not sure this is good
>> for adding these duplicate code.
> 
> Why do we want to account kernel PTE page tables in NR_PAGETABLE?
> I think that's confusing.

Why this will confuse you? I think it is inconsistent that kernel PTE 
page tables are not accounted, because we will account PMD/PUD level 
page tables no matter they are userspace pagetable pages or kernel 
pagetable pages.

Moreover the the vmalloc()/vmap() can consume some kernel pagetable 
pages, which should be accounted.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-03 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-30 11:11 [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] Add PUD and kernel PTE " Baolin Wang
2022-06-30 11:11 ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/3] mm: Factor out the pagetable pages account into new helper function Baolin Wang
2022-06-30 14:11   ` Mike Rapoport
2022-07-01  8:00     ` Baolin Wang
2022-07-02 10:15       ` Mike Rapoport
2022-07-03 13:48         ` Baolin Wang
2022-06-30 11:11 ` [RFC PATCH v3 2/3] mm: Add PUD level pagetable account Baolin Wang
2022-06-30 14:17   ` Mike Rapoport
2022-07-01  8:04     ` Baolin Wang
2022-07-03  3:40       ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-07-03 14:06         ` Baolin Wang
2022-07-03 14:28           ` Mike Rapoport
2022-07-03 14:49             ` Baolin Wang
2022-07-03 14:52           ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-07-03 15:07             ` Baolin Wang [this message]
2022-07-03  3:47   ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-07-03 14:18     ` Mike Rapoport
2022-06-30 11:11 ` [RFC PATCH v3 3/3] mm: Add kernel PTE level pagetable pages account Baolin Wang

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