On 17.03.21 10:43, Oscar Salvador wrote:
On 2021-03-15 10:06, David Hildenbrand wrote:
BTW, I stumbled yesterday over
alloc_contig_pages()->pfn_range_valid_contig():
if (page_count(page) > 0)
rerurn false;
if (PageHuge(page))
return false;
As used by memtrace and for gigantic pages. We can now
a) Drop these check completely, as it's best-effort only and racy.
alloc_contig_pages()/alloc_contig_range() will handle it properly.
I was preparing v5, and I wanted to be sure I understood you here.
Right you are that the in-use page check can be dropped, as those pages
can
be migrated away, and the Hugetlb page check can also be dropped since
isolate_migratepages_range is now capable of dealing with those kind of
pages.
b) Similarly, check for gigantic pages and/or movability/migratability.
I lost you here.
isolate_or_dissolve_huge_page() already bails out on hugetlb-gigantic
pages.
Or do you mean to place an upfront check here? (hstate_is_gigantic())?
Yes. But I prefer a) and keeping it simple here -- just doing basic
sanity checks (online, zone, PageReserved()) that are absolutely necessary.
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Thanks,
David / dhildenb
