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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 08/16] mm/rmap: drop "compound" parameter from page_add_new_anon_rmap()
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On 3/29/22 18:04, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> New anonymous pages are always mapped natively: only THP/khugepagd code

khugepaged ^

> maps a new compound anonymous page and passes "true". Otherwise, we're
> just dealing with simple, non-compound pages.
>
> Let's give the interface clearer semantics and document these.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

Nit:

> --- a/mm/rmap.c
> +++ b/mm/rmap.c
> @@ -1182,19 +1182,22 @@ void page_add_anon_rmap(struct page *page,
> }
>
> /**
> - * page_add_new_anon_rmap - add pte mapping to a new anonymous page
> + * page_add_new_anon_rmap - add mapping to a new anonymous page
> * @page: the page to add the mapping to
> * @vma: the vm area in which the mapping is added
> * @address: the user virtual address mapped
> - * @compound: charge the page as compound or small page
> + *
> + * If it's a compound page, it is accounted as a compound page. As the page
> + * is new, it's assume to get mapped exclusively by a single process.
> *
> * Same as page_add_anon_rmap but must only be called on *new* pages.
> * This means the inc-and-test can be bypassed.
> * Page does not have to be locked.
> */
> void page_add_new_anon_rmap(struct page *page,
> - struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, bool compound)
> + struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address)
> {
> + const bool compound = PageCompound(page);
> int nr = compound ? thp_nr_pages(page) : 1;
>
> VM_BUG_ON_VMA(address < vma->vm_start || address >= vma->vm_end, vma);

There's a VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageTransCompound(page), page); later in a
!compound branch. Since compound is now determined by the same check, could
be deleted.

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