linux-kernel - [PATCH 47 of 66] mincore transparent hugepage support

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Date:	Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:28:22 +0100
From:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
To:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>, Adam Litke <agl@...ibm.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>, bpicco@...hat.com,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Subject: [PATCH 47 of 66] mincore transparent hugepage support

From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>

Handle transparent huge page pmd entries natively instead of splitting
them into subpages.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
---

diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
--- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ extern struct page *follow_trans_huge_pm
 extern int zap_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
 			struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			pmd_t *pmd);
+extern int mincore_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
+			unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
+			unsigned char *vec);
 
 enum transparent_hugepage_flag {
 	TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_FLAG,
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -919,6 +919,31 @@ int zap_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+int mincore_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
+		unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
+		unsigned char *vec)
+{
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	spin_lock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
+	if (likely(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd))) {
+		ret = !pmd_trans_splitting(*pmd);
+		spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
+		if (unlikely(!ret))
+			wait_split_huge_page(vma->anon_vma, pmd);
+		else {
+			/*
+			 * All logical pages in the range are present
+			 * if backed by a huge page.
+			 */
+			memset(vec, 1, (end - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+		}
+	} else
+		spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
 pmd_t *page_check_address_pmd(struct page *page,
 			      struct mm_struct *mm,
 			      unsigned long address,
diff --git a/mm/mincore.c b/mm/mincore.c
--- a/mm/mincore.c
+++ b/mm/mincore.c
@@ -154,7 +154,13 @@ static void mincore_pmd_range(struct vm_
 	pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
 	do {
 		next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
-		split_huge_page_pmd(vma->vm_mm, pmd);
+		if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
+			if (mincore_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr, next, vec)) {
+				vec += (next - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+				continue;
+			}
+			/* fall through */
+		}
 		if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd))
 			mincore_unmapped_range(vma, addr, next, vec);
 		else
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