Re: Bug in page_cache_tree_delete?

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On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:35:41AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hi Kirill,
> 
> I've noticed that your commit 83929372f629 (filemap: prepare find and
> delete operations for huge pages) added to page_cache_tree_delete():
> 
> 	int i, nr = PageHuge(page) ? 1 : hpage_nr_pages(page);
> 
> Isn't the logic computing 'nr' inverted? I'd expect that if page is
> !PageHuge, we want to delete just one page... OTOH I'm surprised this would
> not blow up anywhere if it was really wrong so maybe I just miss something.

No, that's not bug.

PageHuge() detects hugetlb pages (we probably should rename the helper)
which represented by one entry on radix-tree per huge page.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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