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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: /prom/pid/clear_refs: avoid split_huge_page()
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 09:32:47AM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 04:11:10AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Wed, 21 May 2014 22:04:22 +0300 "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Currently we split all THP pages on any clear_refs request. It's not
> > > > necessary. We can handle this on PMD level.
> > > >
> > > > One side effect is that soft dirty will potentially see more dirty
> > > > memory, since we will mark whole THP page dirty at once.
> > >
> > > This clashes pretty badly with
> > > http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/clear_refs-redefine-callback-functions-for-page-table-walker.patch
> >
> > Hm.. For some reason CRIU memory-snapshotting test cases fail on current
> > linux-next. I didn't debug why. Mainline works. Folks?
>
> Thanks for noticing, Kirill! I don't test linux-test regulary will try and
> report the results.

OK, I managed to run criu on linux-next. Due to changes in vdso it no longer
able to run. I'll handle it in criu and ping you then.


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