mm: numa: do not clear PMD during PTE update scan
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Thu, 19 Dec 2013 01:08:36 +0000 (17:08 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 19 Dec 2013 03:04:51 +0000 (19:04 -0800)
commit5a6dac3ec5f583cc8ee7bc53b5500a207c4ca433
tree471c00fcd2c7666cdf91132c6557efb34264ace6
parent67f87463d3a3362424efcbe8b40e4772fd34fc61
mm: numa: do not clear PMD during PTE update scan

If the PMD is flushed then a parallel fault in handle_mm_fault() will
enter the pmd_none and do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page() path where it'll
attempt to insert a huge zero page.  This is wasteful so the patch
avoids clearing the PMD when setting pmd_numa.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/huge_memory.c