linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/4] powerpc: remove superfluous PageTail checks on the pte gup

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Date:	Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:40:36 +0200
From:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] powerpc: remove superfluous PageTail checks on the pte gup_fast

This part of gup_fast doesn't seem capable of handling hugetlbfs ptes,
those should be handled by gup_hugepd only, so these checks are
superfluous.

Plus if this wasn't a noop, it would have oopsed because, the insistence
of using the speculative refcounting would trigger a VM_BUG_ON if a tail
page was encountered in the page_cache_get_speculative().

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c
index b9e1c7f..d7efdbf 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c
@@ -16,17 +16,6 @@
 
 #ifdef __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL
 
-static inline void get_huge_page_tail(struct page *page)
-{
-	/*
-	 * __split_huge_page_refcount() cannot run
-	 * from under us.
-	 */
-	VM_BUG_ON(page_mapcount(page) < 0);
-	VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) != 0);
-	atomic_inc(&page->_mapcount);
-}
-
 /*
  * The performance critical leaf functions are made noinline otherwise gcc
  * inlines everything into a single function which results in too much
@@ -58,8 +47,6 @@ static noinline int gup_pte_range(pmd_t pmd, unsigned long addr,
 			put_page(page);
 			return 0;
 		}
-		if (PageTail(page))
-			get_huge_page_tail(page);
 		pages[*nr] = page;
 		(*nr)++;
 
-- 
1.7.3.4

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