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thp: copy_huge_pmd(): copy huge zero page

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It's easy to copy huge zero page. Just set destination pmd to huge zero
page.

It's safe to copy huge zero page since we have none yet :-p

[rientjes@google.com: fix comment]
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kirill A. Shutemov 2012-12-12 13:50:51 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 479f0abbfd
commit fc9fe822f7
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mm/huge_memory.c
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@ -708,6 +708,18 @@ static inline struct page *alloc_hugepage(int defrag)
}
#endif
static void set_huge_zero_page(pgtable_t pgtable, struct mm_struct *mm,
struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long haddr, pmd_t *pmd)
{
pmd_t entry;
entry = pfn_pmd(huge_zero_pfn, vma->vm_page_prot);
entry = pmd_wrprotect(entry);
entry = pmd_mkhuge(entry);
set_pmd_at(mm, haddr, pmd, entry);
pgtable_trans_huge_deposit(mm, pgtable);
mm->nr_ptes++;
}
int do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmd,
unsigned int flags)
@ -785,6 +797,16 @@ int copy_huge_pmd(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct mm_struct *src_mm,
pte_free(dst_mm, pgtable);
goto out_unlock;
}
/*
* mm->page_table_lock is enough to be sure that huge zero pmd is not
* under splitting since we don't split the page itself, only pmd to
* a page table.
*/
if (is_huge_zero_pmd(pmd)) {
set_huge_zero_page(pgtable, dst_mm, vma, addr, dst_pmd);
ret = 0;
goto out_unlock;
}
if (unlikely(pmd_trans_splitting(pmd))) {
/* split huge page running from under us */
spin_unlock(&src_mm->page_table_lock);