Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 11 Jan 2020 02:56:37 +0300 | From | "Kirill A. Shutemov" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/huge_memory.c: use head to emphasize the purpose of page |
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On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 11:26:10AM +0800, Wei Yang wrote: > During split huge page, it checks the property of the page. Currently we > do the check on page and head without emphasizing the check is on the > compound page. In case the page passed to split_huge_page_to_list is a > tail page, audience would take some time to think about whether the > check is on compound page or tail page itself. > > To make it explicit, use head instead of page for those checks. After > this, audience would be more clear about the checks are on compound page > and the page is used to do the split and dump error message if failed. > > Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
-- Kirill A. Shutemov
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