On 05/11/2013 06:23 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> It's confusing that mk_huge_pmd() has sematics different from mk_pte()
> or mk_pmd().
>
> Let's move maybe_pmd_mkwrite() out of mk_huge_pmd() and adjust
> prototype to match mk_pte().
Was there a motivation to do this beyond adding consistency? Do you use
this later or something?
> @@ -746,7 +745,8 @@ static int __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
> pte_free(mm, pgtable);
> } else {
> pmd_t entry;
> - entry = mk_huge_pmd(page, vma);
> + entry = mk_huge_pmd(page, vma->vm_page_prot);
> + entry = maybe_pmd_mkwrite(pmd_mkdirty(entry), vma);
> page_add_new_anon_rmap(page, vma, haddr);
> set_pmd_at(mm, haddr, pmd, entry);
I'm not the biggest fan since this does add lines of code, but I do
appreciate the consistency it adds, so:
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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