From e7a00c45f29c0155007aa150bf231a70fa470365 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrea Arcangeli Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:46:45 -0800 Subject: thp: add pmd_huge_pte to mm_struct This increase the size of the mm struct a bit but it is needed to preallocate one pte for each hugepage so that split_huge_page will not require a fail path. Guarantee of success is a fundamental property of split_huge_page to avoid decrasing swapping reliability and to avoid adding -ENOMEM fail paths that would otherwise force the hugepage-unaware VM code to learn rolling back in the middle of its pte mangling operations (if something we need it to learn handling pmd_trans_huge natively rather being capable of rollback). When split_huge_page runs a pte is needed to succeed the split, to map the newly splitted regular pages with a regular pte. This way all existing VM code remains backwards compatible by just adding a split_huge_page* one liner. The memory waste of those preallocated ptes is negligible and so it is worth it. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Acked-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/fork.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 1499607e4da2..f78f50ba6cb2 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -529,6 +529,9 @@ void __mmdrop(struct mm_struct *mm) mm_free_pgd(mm); destroy_context(mm); mmu_notifier_mm_destroy(mm); +#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE + VM_BUG_ON(mm->pmd_huge_pte); +#endif free_mm(mm); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__mmdrop); @@ -669,6 +672,10 @@ struct mm_struct *dup_mm(struct task_struct *tsk) mm->token_priority = 0; mm->last_interval = 0; +#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE + mm->pmd_huge_pte = NULL; +#endif + if (!mm_init(mm, tsk)) goto fail_nomem; -- cgit v1.2.3