Re: [PATCH] mm: remove unnecessary condition in remove_inode_hugepages

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On Mon 26-09-16 10:34:13, zhongjiang wrote:
> From: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> when the huge page is added to the page cahce (huge_add_to_page_cache),
> the page private flag will be cleared. since this code
> (remove_inode_hugepages) will only be called for pages in the
> page cahce, PagePrivate(page) will always be false.
> 
> The patch remove the code without any functional change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c    | 10 ++++------
>  include/linux/hugetlb.h |  2 +-
>  mm/hugetlb.c            |  4 ++--
>  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> index 4ea71eb..81f8bbf4 100644
> --- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> @@ -458,18 +458,16 @@ static void remove_inode_hugepages(struct inode *inode, loff_t lstart,
>  			 * cache (remove_huge_page) BEFORE removing the
>  			 * region/reserve map (hugetlb_unreserve_pages).  In
>  			 * rare out of memory conditions, removal of the
> -			 * region/reserve map could fail.  Before free'ing
> -			 * the page, note PagePrivate which is used in case
> -			 * of error.
> +			 * region/reserve map could fail. Correspondingly,
> +			 * the subpool and global reserve usage count can need
> +			 * to be adjusted.
>  			 */
> -			rsv_on_error = !PagePrivate(page);

This whole code is tricky as hell. I would be calmer if we just stick a
VM_BUG_ON here to make sure that this assumption will not break later
on.

>  			remove_huge_page(page);
>  			freed++;
>  			if (!truncate_op) {
>  				if (unlikely(hugetlb_unreserve_pages(inode,
>  							next, next + 1, 1)))
> -					hugetlb_fix_reserve_counts(inode,
> -								rsv_on_error);
> +					hugetlb_fix_reserve_counts(inode);
>  			}
>  
>  			unlock_page(page);
> diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> index c26d463..d2e0fc5 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ int dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page(struct page *page);
>  bool isolate_huge_page(struct page *page, struct list_head *list);
>  void putback_active_hugepage(struct page *page);
>  void free_huge_page(struct page *page);
> -void hugetlb_fix_reserve_counts(struct inode *inode, bool restore_reserve);
> +void hugetlb_fix_reserve_counts(struct inode *inode);
>  extern struct mutex *hugetlb_fault_mutex_table;
>  u32 hugetlb_fault_mutex_hash(struct hstate *h, struct mm_struct *mm,
>  				struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 87e11d8..28a079a 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -567,13 +567,13 @@ retry:
>   * appear as a "reserved" entry instead of simply dangling with incorrect
>   * counts.
>   */
> -void hugetlb_fix_reserve_counts(struct inode *inode, bool restore_reserve)
> +void hugetlb_fix_reserve_counts(struct inode *inode)
>  {
>  	struct hugepage_subpool *spool = subpool_inode(inode);
>  	long rsv_adjust;
>  
>  	rsv_adjust = hugepage_subpool_get_pages(spool, 1);
> -	if (restore_reserve && rsv_adjust) {
> +	if (rsv_adjust) {
>  		struct hstate *h = hstate_inode(inode);
>  
>  		hugetlb_acct_memory(h, 1);
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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