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Re: [PATCHv9 25/36] mm, thp: remove infrastructure for handling splitting PMDs

From	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCHv9 25/36] mm, thp: remove infrastructure for handling splitting PMDs
Date	2015-08-03 13:50 +0200
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On 08/03/2015 12:41 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 05:01:06PM +0200, Jerome Marchand wrote:
>> On 07/20/2015 04:20 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>>> @@ -1616,23 +1605,14 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
>>>   * Note that if it returns 1, this routine returns without unlocking page
>>>   * table locks. So callers must unlock them.
>>>   */
>>
>> The comment above should be updated.
> 
> Like this?

Yes. Thanks.

> 
> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> index d32277463932..78a6c7cdf8f7 100644
> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -1627,11 +1627,10 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
>  }
>  
>  /*
> - * Returns 1 if a given pmd maps a stable (not under splitting) thp.
> - * Returns -1 if it maps a thp under splitting. Returns 0 otherwise.
> + * Returns true if a given pmd maps a thp, false otherwise.
>   *
> - * Note that if it returns 1, this routine returns without unlocking page
> - * table locks. So callers must unlock them.
> + * Note that if it returns true, this routine returns without unlocking page
> + * table lock. So callers must unlock it.
>   */
>  bool __pmd_trans_huge_lock(pmd_t *pmd, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  		spinlock_t **ptl)
>

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Re: [PATCHv9 25/36] mm, thp: remove infrastructure for handling splitting  PMDs Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> - 2015-07-31 17:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCHv9 25/36] mm, thp: remove infrastructure for handling  splitting PMDs "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2015-08-03 12:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCHv9 25/36] mm, thp: remove infrastructure for handling splitting  PMDs Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> - 2015-08-03 13:50 +0200

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