[PATCH v1 06/10] mm: Allow deferred splitting of arbitrary large anon folios

Yin Fengwei fengwei.yin at intel.com
Tue Jun 27 19:43:05 PDT 2023



On 6/27/23 01:14, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> With the introduction of large folios for anonymous memory, we would
> like to be able to split them when they have unmapped subpages, in order
> to free those unused pages under memory pressure. So remove the
> artificial requirement that the large folio needed to be at least
> PMD-sized.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin at intel.com>


Regards
Yin, Fengwei

> ---
>  mm/rmap.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
> index ac1d93d43f2b..3d11c5fb6090 100644
> --- a/mm/rmap.c
> +++ b/mm/rmap.c
> @@ -1567,7 +1567,7 @@ void page_remove_rmap(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  		 * page of the folio is unmapped and at least one page
>  		 * is still mapped.
>  		 */
> -		if (folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio) && folio_test_anon(folio))
> +		if (folio_test_large(folio) && folio_test_anon(folio))
>  			if (!compound || nr < nr_pmdmapped)
>  				deferred_split_folio(folio);
>  	}



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