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authorSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>2019-09-23 15:38:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-09-24 15:54:11 -0700
commitbfe7b00de6d1e25fee08484c4fbf1c1ed175be78 (patch)
treef24b90ed0dcca9ecfac4d5407b5d1fe88c8d9c23 /mm
parentfb4fb04ff4dd377b3132e9b31259263ec37b830a (diff)
downloadlinux-bfe7b00de6d1e25fee08484c4fbf1c1ed175be78.tar.bz2
mm, thp: introduce FOLL_SPLIT_PMD
Introduce a new foll_flag: FOLL_SPLIT_PMD. As the name says FOLL_SPLIT_PMD splits huge pmd for given mm_struct, the underlining huge page stays as-is. FOLL_SPLIT_PMD is useful for cases where we need to use regular pages, but would switch back to huge page and huge pmd on. One of such example is uprobe. The following patches use FOLL_SPLIT_PMD in uprobe. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190815164525.1848545-4-songliubraving@fb.com Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/gup.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 012060efddf1..60c3915c8ee6 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ retry_locked:
spin_unlock(ptl);
return follow_page_pte(vma, address, pmd, flags, &ctx->pgmap);
}
- if (flags & FOLL_SPLIT) {
+ if (flags & (FOLL_SPLIT | FOLL_SPLIT_PMD)) {
int ret;
page = pmd_page(*pmd);
if (is_huge_zero_page(page)) {
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ retry_locked:
split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, address);
if (pmd_trans_unstable(pmd))
ret = -EBUSY;
- } else {
+ } else if (flags & FOLL_SPLIT) {
if (unlikely(!try_get_page(page))) {
spin_unlock(ptl);
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
@@ -405,6 +405,10 @@ retry_locked:
put_page(page);
if (pmd_none(*pmd))
return no_page_table(vma, flags);
+ } else { /* flags & FOLL_SPLIT_PMD */
+ spin_unlock(ptl);
+ split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, address);
+ ret = pte_alloc(mm, pmd) ? -ENOMEM : 0;
}
return ret ? ERR_PTR(ret) :