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| author | Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> | 2011-01-13 15:46:32 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-01-13 17:32:39 -0800 |
| commit | 9180706344487700b40da9eca5dedd3d11cb33b4 (patch) | |
| tree | eb0347efe7e40adc78a271752c7382aa67875d6a /include | |
| parent | e9da73d67729b58bba256123e2b4651e0d8a01ac (diff) | |
| download | linux-9180706344487700b40da9eca5dedd3d11cb33b4.tar.bz2 | |
thp: alter compound get_page/put_page
Alter compound get_page/put_page to keep references on subpages too, in
order to allow __split_huge_page_refcount to split an hugepage even while
subpages have been pinned by one of the get_user_pages() variants.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 24 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 3b1754ad8785..a2718e1ed585 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -353,9 +353,29 @@ static inline int page_count(struct page *page) static inline void get_page(struct page *page) { - page = compound_head(page); - VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) == 0); + /* + * Getting a normal page or the head of a compound page + * requires to already have an elevated page->_count. Only if + * we're getting a tail page, the elevated page->_count is + * required only in the head page, so for tail pages the + * bugcheck only verifies that the page->_count isn't + * negative. + */ + VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) < !PageTail(page)); atomic_inc(&page->_count); + /* + * Getting a tail page will elevate both the head and tail + * page->_count(s). + */ + if (unlikely(PageTail(page))) { + /* + * This is safe only because + * __split_huge_page_refcount can't run under + * get_page(). + */ + VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->first_page->_count) <= 0); + atomic_inc(&page->first_page->_count); + } } static inline struct page *virt_to_head_page(const void *x) |