[Devel] Re: [PATCH 06/10] Introduce functions to dump mm

[Dave Hansen]

On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 12:43 +0400, Andrey Mirkin wrote:
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86
> > > +       if (pmd_huge(*pmd)) {
> > > +               eprintk("page_huge\n");
> > > +               goto out_unsupported;
> > > +       }
> > > +#endif
> >
> > I take it you know that this breaks with the 1GB (x86_64) and 16GB (ppc)
> > large pages.
> >
> > Since you have the VMA, why not use is_vm_hugetlb_page()?
> Right now I'm checking VM_HUGETLB flag on VMAs in dump_one_vma().
> This checks were added for sanity purpose just to throw out all unsupported 
> right now cases.

I'm telling you that it's no good.  Not only should this path never be
hit.  But, if it is, you'll crash anyway in some cases.

It's a bad check.  At best it misleads the reader to think that you've
covered your bases.

-- Dave