Re: [PATCH] pagemap: fix wrong KPF_THP on slab pages

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On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:02:34AM -0400, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
...
> > > +	 * page is a thp, not a non-huge compound page.
> > > +	 */
> > > +	else if (PageTransCompound(page) && !PageSlab(page))
> > >  		u |= 1 << KPF_THP;
> > 
> > Good catch!
> > 
> > Will this report THP for the various drivers that do __GFP_COMP
> > page allocations?
> 
> I'm afraid it will. I think of checking PageLRU as an alternative,
> but it needs compound_head() to report tail pages correctly.
> In this context, pages are not pinned or locked, so it's unsafe to
> use compound_head() because it can return a dangling pointer.
> Maybe it's a thp's/hugetlbfs's (not kpageflags specific) problem,
> so going forward with compound_head() expecting that it will be
> fixed in the future work can be an option.

It seems that compound_trans_head() solves this problem, so I'll
simply use it.

Naoya

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