linux-kernel - [PATCHv6 17/30] vmscan: split file huge pages before paging them out

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Date:	Thu,  7 Apr 2016 01:51:07 +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>,
	Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@...gle.com>,
	Ning Qu <quning@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCHv6 17/30] vmscan: split file huge pages before paging them out

This is preparation of vmscan for file huge pages. We cannot write out
huge pages, so we need to split them on the way out.

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

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index b934223eaa45..4cc96ba44a34 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1055,8 +1055,14 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
 
 			/* Adding to swap updated mapping */
 			mapping = page_mapping(page);
+		} else if (unlikely(PageTransHuge(page))) {
+			/* Split file THP */
+			if (split_huge_page_to_list(page, page_list))
+				goto keep_locked;
 		}
 
+		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageTransHuge(page), page);
+
 		/*
 		 * The page is mapped into the page tables of one or more
 		 * processes. Try to unmap it here.
-- 
2.8.0.rc3