linux-kernel - [PATCHv4 10/24] khugepaged: ignore pmd tables with THP mapped with ptes

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Date:	Wed,  4 Mar 2015 18:32:58 +0200
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Cc:	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...two.org>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	Steve Capper <steve.capper@...aro.org>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCHv4 10/24] khugepaged: ignore pmd tables with THP mapped with ptes

Prepare khugepaged to see compound pages mapped with pte. For now we
won't collapse the pmd table with such pte.

khugepaged is subject for future rework wrt new refcounting.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 36e03eb9aa41..ff1282b1859c 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2747,6 +2747,11 @@ static int khugepaged_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
 		page = vm_normal_page(vma, _address, pteval);
 		if (unlikely(!page))
 			goto out_unmap;
+
+		/* TODO: teach khugepaged to collapse THP mapped with pte */
+		if (PageCompound(page))
+			goto out_unmap;
+
 		/*
 		 * Record which node the original page is from and save this
 		 * information to khugepaged_node_load[].
@@ -2757,7 +2762,6 @@ static int khugepaged_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
 		if (khugepaged_scan_abort(node))
 			goto out_unmap;
 		khugepaged_node_load[node]++;
-		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageCompound(page), page);
 		if (!PageLRU(page) || PageLocked(page) || !PageAnon(page))
 			goto out_unmap;
 		/*
-- 
2.1.4

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