Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm/hugetlb: Remove pmd_huge_split_prepare

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On 07/27/2017 06:27 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
On Thu 27-07-17 14:07:56, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
Instead of marking the pmd ready for split, invalidate the pmd. This should
take care of powerpc requirement.

which is?

I can add the commit which explain details here. Or add more details from the older commit here.

c777e2a8b65420b31dac28a453e35be984f5808b

powerpc/mm: Fix Multi hit ERAT cause by recent THP update



Only side effect is that we mark the pmd
invalid early. This can result in us blocking access to the page a bit longer
if we race against a thp split.

Again, this doesn't tell me what is the problem and why do we care.

Primary motivation is code reduction.

  7 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-)


-aneesh

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