Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc7' into next

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 618e98304080..107da3d809a8 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2269,12 +2269,18 @@ void hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 
 int hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *inode,
 					long from, long to,
-					struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+					struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+					int acctflag)
 {
 	long ret, chg;
 	struct hstate *h = hstate_inode(inode);
 
-	if (vma && vma->vm_flags & VM_NORESERVE)
+	/*
+	 * Only apply hugepage reservation if asked. At fault time, an
+	 * attempt will be made for VM_NORESERVE to allocate a page
+	 * and filesystem quota without using reserves
+	 */
+	if (acctflag & VM_NORESERVE)
 		return 0;
 
 	/*
@@ -2299,13 +2305,31 @@ int hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *inode,
 	if (chg < 0)
 		return chg;
 
+	/* There must be enough filesystem quota for the mapping */
 	if (hugetlb_get_quota(inode->i_mapping, chg))
 		return -ENOSPC;
+
+	/*
+	 * Check enough hugepages are available for the reservation.
+	 * Hand back the quota if there are not
+	 */
 	ret = hugetlb_acct_memory(h, chg);
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		hugetlb_put_quota(inode->i_mapping, chg);
 		return ret;
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Account for the reservations made. Shared mappings record regions
+	 * that have reservations as they are shared by multiple VMAs.
+	 * When the last VMA disappears, the region map says how much
+	 * the reservation was and the page cache tells how much of
+	 * the reservation was consumed. Private mappings are per-VMA and
+	 * only the consumed reservations are tracked. When the VMA
+	 * disappears, the original reservation is the VMA size and the
+	 * consumed reservations are stored in the map. Hence, nothing
+	 * else has to be done for private mappings here
+	 */
 	if (!vma || vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)
 		region_add(&inode->i_mapping->private_list, from, to);
 	return 0;