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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:27:29 -0400
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/40] autonuma: teach gup_fast about pte_numa
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On 06/28/2012 08:55 AM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> gup_fast will skip over non present ptes (pte_numa requires the pte to
> be non present). So no explicit check is needed for pte_numa in the
> pte case.
>
> gup_fast will also automatically skip over THP when the trans huge pmd
> is non present (pmd_numa requires the pmd to be non present).
>
> But for the special pmd mode scan of knuma_scand
> (/sys/kernel/mm/autonuma/knuma_scand/pmd == 1), the pmd may be of numa
> type (so non present too), the pte may be present. gup_pte_range
> wouldn't notice the pmd is of numa type. So to avoid losing a NUMA
> hinting page fault with gup_fast we need an explicit check for
> pmd_numa() here to be sure it will fault through gup ->
> handle_mm_fault.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli<aarcange@redhat.com>

Assuming pmd_numa will get the documentation I asked for a few
patches back, this patch is fine, since people will just be able
to look at a nice comment above pmd_numa and see what is going on.

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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