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mm, dax: check for pmd_none() after split_huge_pmd()

DAX implements split_huge_pmd() by clearing pmd.  This simple approach
reduces memory overhead, as we don't need to deposit page table on huge
page mapping to make split_huge_pmd() never-fail.  PTE table can be
allocated and populated later on page fault from backing store.

But one side effect is that have to check if pmd is pmd_none() after
split_huge_pmd().  In most places we do this already to deal with
parallel MADV_DONTNEED.

But I found two call sites which is not affected by MADV_DONTNEED (due
down_write(mmap_sem)), but need to have the check to work with DAX
properly.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Kirill A. Shutemov 9 years ago
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6b9116a652
2 changed files with 6 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 4 2
      mm/mprotect.c
  2. 2 0
      mm/mremap.c

+ 4 - 2
mm/mprotect.c

@@ -160,9 +160,11 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		}
 
 		if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) || pmd_devmap(*pmd)) {
-			if (next - addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE)
+			if (next - addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) {
 				split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr);
-			else {
+				if (pmd_none(*pmd))
+					continue;
+			} else {
 				int nr_ptes = change_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr,
 						newprot, prot_numa);
 

+ 2 - 0
mm/mremap.c

@@ -210,6 +210,8 @@ unsigned long move_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 				}
 			}
 			split_huge_pmd(vma, old_pmd, old_addr);
+			if (pmd_none(*old_pmd))
+				continue;
 			VM_BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*old_pmd));
 		}
 		if (pmd_none(*new_pmd) && __pte_alloc(new_vma->vm_mm, new_vma,