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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 5/5] uprobe: collapse THP pmd after removing all uprobes
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> On Jun 21, 2019, at 5:48 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 10:57:47AM -0700, Song Liu wrote:
>> After all uprobes are removed from the huge page (with PTE pgtable), it
>> is possible to collapse the pmd and benefit from THP again. This patch
>> does the collapse.
>>
>> An issue on earlier version was discovered by kbuild test robot.
>>
>> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
>> ---
>> include/linux/huge_mm.h | 7 +++++
>> kernel/events/uprobes.c | 5 ++-
>> mm/huge_memory.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> I still sync it's duplication of khugepaged functinallity. We need to fix
> khugepaged to handle SCAN_PAGE_COMPOUND and probably refactor the code to
> be able to call for collapse of particular range if we have all locks
> taken (as we do in uprobe case).
>

I see the point now. I misunderstood it for a while.

If we add this to khugepaged, it will have some conflicts with my other
patchset. How about we move the functionality to khugepaged after these
two sets get in?

Thanks,
Song
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