mm: hugetlb: use get_page_foll() in follow_hugetlb_page()
authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:48:49 +0000 (15:48 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:19:43 +0000 (16:19 -0800)
commita0368d4e48fc9ad65a66f6819a801f3f542b4f0f
treecf3ba6417cff86a8b9d0e00d2ce1d80fa70568ec
parent0e147aed4c250766e657855db55a395d2c8008a5
mm: hugetlb: use get_page_foll() in follow_hugetlb_page()

get_page_foll() is more optimal and is always safe to use under the PT
lock.  More so for hugetlbfs as there's no risk of race conditions with
split_huge_page regardless of the PT lock.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Cc: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/hugetlb.c