| Date | Tue, 1 Oct 2019 13:42:20 +0300 | From | "Kirill A. Shutemov" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 13/15] mm: Add a huge page fault handler for files |
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On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 05:52:12PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > From: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com> > > Add filemap_huge_fault() to attempt to satisfy page > faults on memory-mapped read-only text pages using THP when possible. > > Signed-off-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com> > [rebased on top of mm prep patches -- Matthew] > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
As we discuss before, I think it's wrong direction to separate ->fault() from ->huge_fault(). If ->fault() would return a huge page alloc_set_pte() will do The Right Thing™.
-- Kirill A. Shutemov
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