linux-kernel - [PATCHv2 17/28] thp: skip file huge pmd on copy_huge

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Message-Id: <1455200516-132137-18-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 11 Feb 2016 17:21:45 +0300
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...two.org>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>,
	Yang Shi <yang.shi@...aro.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCHv2 17/28] thp: skip file huge pmd on copy_huge_pmd()

File pmds can be safely skip on copy_huge_pmd(), we can re-fault them
later. COW for file mappings handled on pte level.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 4da4e915af61..00f10d323039 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1052,14 +1052,15 @@ int copy_huge_pmd(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct mm_struct *src_mm,
 	struct page *src_page;
 	pmd_t pmd;
 	pgtable_t pgtable = NULL;
-	int ret;
+	int ret = -ENOMEM;
 
-	if (!vma_is_dax(vma)) {
-		ret = -ENOMEM;
-		pgtable = pte_alloc_one(dst_mm, addr);
-		if (unlikely(!pgtable))
-			goto out;
-	}
+	/* Skip if can be re-fill on fault */
+	if (!vma_is_anonymous(vma))
+		return 0;
+
+	pgtable = pte_alloc_one(dst_mm, addr);
+	if (unlikely(!pgtable))
+		goto out;
 
 	dst_ptl = pmd_lock(dst_mm, dst_pmd);
 	src_ptl = pmd_lockptr(src_mm, src_pmd);
@@ -1067,7 +1068,7 @@ int copy_huge_pmd(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct mm_struct *src_mm,
 
 	ret = -EAGAIN;
 	pmd = *src_pmd;
-	if (unlikely(!pmd_trans_huge(pmd) && !pmd_devmap(pmd))) {
+	if (unlikely(!pmd_trans_huge(pmd))) {
 		pte_free(dst_mm, pgtable);
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}
@@ -1090,16 +1091,13 @@ int copy_huge_pmd(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct mm_struct *src_mm,
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
-	if (!vma_is_dax(vma)) {
-		/* thp accounting separate from pmd_devmap accounting */
-		src_page = pmd_page(pmd);
-		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead(src_page), src_page);
-		get_page(src_page);
-		page_dup_rmap(src_page, true);
-		add_mm_counter(dst_mm, MM_ANONPAGES, HPAGE_PMD_NR);
-		atomic_long_inc(&dst_mm->nr_ptes);
-		pgtable_trans_huge_deposit(dst_mm, dst_pmd, pgtable);
-	}
+	src_page = pmd_page(pmd);
+	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead(src_page), src_page);
+	get_page(src_page);
+	page_dup_rmap(src_page, true);
+	add_mm_counter(dst_mm, MM_ANONPAGES, HPAGE_PMD_NR);
+	atomic_long_inc(&dst_mm->nr_ptes);
+	pgtable_trans_huge_deposit(dst_mm, dst_pmd, pgtable);
 
 	pmdp_set_wrprotect(src_mm, addr, src_pmd);
 	pmd = pmd_mkold(pmd_wrprotect(pmd));
-- 
2.7.0