mm, dax: check for pmd_none() after split_huge_pmd()
authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 12 Feb 2016 00:13:03 +0000 (16:13 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 12 Feb 2016 02:35:48 +0000 (18:35 -0800)
DAX implements split_huge_pmd() by clearing pmd.  This simple approach
reduces memory overhead, as we don't need to deposit page table on huge
page mapping to make split_huge_pmd() never-fail.  PTE table can be
allocated and populated later on page fault from backing store.

But one side effect is that have to check if pmd is pmd_none() after
split_huge_pmd().  In most places we do this already to deal with
parallel MADV_DONTNEED.

But I found two call sites which is not affected by MADV_DONTNEED (due
down_write(mmap_sem)), but need to have the check to work with DAX
properly.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/mprotect.c
mm/mremap.c

index 8eb7bb40dc40b6e8e89d05fbb7e05f8c836e05da..f7cb3d4d9c2eb55d74738e374faa3bfa37251686 100644 (file)
@@ -160,9 +160,11 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
                }
 
                if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) || pmd_devmap(*pmd)) {
-                       if (next - addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE)
+                       if (next - addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) {
                                split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr);
-                       else {
+                               if (pmd_none(*pmd))
+                                       continue;
+                       } else {
                                int nr_ptes = change_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr,
                                                newprot, prot_numa);
 
index d77946a997f798ecc25ccaee2886139ff9d9a587..8eeba02fc99137b5a47996750159de8a455e2c4d 100644 (file)
@@ -210,6 +210,8 @@ unsigned long move_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
                                }
                        }
                        split_huge_pmd(vma, old_pmd, old_addr);
+                       if (pmd_none(*old_pmd))
+                               continue;
                        VM_BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*old_pmd));
                }
                if (pmd_none(*new_pmd) && __pte_alloc(new_vma->vm_mm, new_vma,