Re: [-mm PATCH v5 15/18] mm, dax: dax-pmd vs thp-pmd vs hugetlbfs-pmd

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On 12/24/2015 07:59 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> A dax-huge-page mapping while it uses some thp helpers is ultimately not a
> transparent huge page.  The distinction is especially important in the
> get_user_pages() path.  pmd_devmap() is used to distinguish dax-pmds from
> pmd_huge() and pmd_trans_huge() which have slightly different semantics.
> 
> Explicitly mark the pmd_trans_huge() helpers that dax needs by adding
> pmd_devmap() checks.
> 
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>

The issue that I've reported and Kirill sent for isn't fixed for me,
so either the bug isn't really within this patch, or it wasn't addressed
correctly.


Thanks,
Sasha

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