linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/8] mm: hugetlb: use get_page_foll in follow_hugetlb

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Message-Id: <1384969876-6374-3-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Nov 2013 18:51:10 +0100
From:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@...cle.com>,
	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/8] 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.

Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 14737f8e..f03e068 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3113,7 +3113,7 @@ long follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 same_page:
 		if (pages) {
 			pages[i] = mem_map_offset(page, pfn_offset);
-			get_page(pages[i]);
+			get_page_foll(pages[i]);
 		}
 
 		if (vmas)
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