Re: [PATCH] mm: Improve dump_page() for compound pages

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On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 02:00:39PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 2/10/20 1:54 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 01:33:22PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
> >>> PageSlab() can be called for the head page.
> >>
> >>
> >> It's not clear to me whether it's safer to use the...user-provided page, or the
> >> head page, for checking PageSlab()--it's probably set on both head and non-head
> >> pages, right?
> > 
> > PageSlab() will call compound_head() inside.
> > 
> >> I guess you're saying it should be like this:
> >>
> >> 	mapcount = PageSlab(head) ? 0 : page_mapcount(page);
> >>
> >> ...yes?
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> 
> OK very good, thanks for walking me through it. :)
> 
> Matthew, if you like I'll just fix it up like that for my v6 posting of the
> patchset, since it's such a small change.

Yes, please just fix it up.




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