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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/4] mm/hugeltb: fix potential wrong gbl_reserve value for hugetlb_acct_memory()
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On 2021/4/9 12:37, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> On 4/8/21 8:01 PM, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>> On 2021/4/9 6:53, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, add a comment to hugetlb_unreserve_pages saying that !resv_map
>>> implies freed == 0.
>>>
>>
>> Sounds good!
>>
>>> It would also be helpful to check for (chg - freed) == 0 and skip the
>>> calls to hugepage_subpool_put_pages() and hugetlb_acct_memory(). Both
>>> of those routines may perform an unnecessary lock/unlock cycle in this
>>> case.
>>>
>>> A simple
>>> if (chg == free)
>>> return 0;
>>> before the call to hugepage_subpool_put_pages would work.
>>
>> This may not be really helpful because hugepage_subpool_put_pages() and hugetlb_acct_memory()
>> both would handle delta == 0 case without unnecessary lock/unlock cycle.
>> Does this make sense for you? If so, I will prepare v2 with the changes to add a comment
>> to hugetlb_unreserve_pages() __without__ the check for (chg - freed) == 0.
>
> Sorry, I forgot about the recent changes to check for delta == 0.
> No need for the check here, just the comment.
>

That's all right. Will add the comment in V2.
Thanks.

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