On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 03:26:46PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:02:52 -0500
> Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Casting pmd into pte_t to handle thp is strongly architecture dependent.
> > This patch introduces a new function to separate this dependency from
> > independent part.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 5 +++++
> > fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 4 ++--
> > include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 4 ++++
> > 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git 3.3-rc1.orig/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h 3.3-rc1/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> > index 49afb3f..4cfcc7e 100644
> > --- 3.3-rc1.orig/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> > +++ 3.3-rc1/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> > @@ -165,6 +165,11 @@ static inline int has_transparent_hugepage(void)
> > {
> > return cpu_has_pse;
> > }
> > +
> > +static inline pte_t thp_ptep_get(pmd_t *pmd)
> > +{
> > + return *(pte_t *)pmd;
> > +}
>
> I'm sorry but I don't think the name is good.
> (But I know my sense of naming is bad ;)
I named it from huge_ptep_get() defined for hugetlbfs.
But by my rethinking, it's bad naming.
>
> How about pmd_to_pte_t ?
OK, it looks straightforward.
I'll take it if someone does not have better ideas.
> And, I wonder you can add error check as VM_BUG_ON(!pmd_trans_huge(*pmd));
Good, I'll add it.
Thank you, KAMEZAWA-san.
Naoya
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