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Re: [PATCHv2 17/28] thp: skip file huge pmd on copy_huge_pmd()

From "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCHv2 17/28] thp: skip file huge pmd on copy_huge_pmd()
Date 2016-02-16 11:20 +0100
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On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:42:09AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 02/11/2016 06:21 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > File pmds can be safely skip on copy_huge_pmd(), we can re-fault them
> > later. COW for file mappings handled on pte level.
> 
> Is this different from 4k pages?  I figured we might skip copying
> file-backed ptes on fork, but I couldn't find the code.

Currently, we only filter out on per-VMA basis. See first comment in
copy_page_range().

Here we handle PMD mapped file pages in COW mapping. File THP can be
mapped into COW mapping as result of read page fault.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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[PATCHv2 17/28] thp: skip file huge pmd on copy_huge_pmd() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-11 15:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCHv2 17/28] thp: skip file huge pmd on copy_huge_pmd() Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> - 2016-02-12 19:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCHv2 17/28] thp: skip file huge pmd on copy_huge_pmd() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-16 11:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCHv2 17/28] thp: skip file huge pmd on copy_huge_pmd() Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> - 2016-02-16 16:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCHv2 17/28] thp: skip file huge pmd on copy_huge_pmd() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-02-18 13:50 +0100

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