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| author | Mel Gorman | 2015-02-12 23:58:35 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2015-02-13 03:54:08 +0100 |
| commit | e944fd67b625c02bda4a78ddf85e413c5e401474 (patch) | |
| tree | 73430e339d1d27b315b3789bc0a271882ecf9174 /mm/huge_memory.c | |
| parent | mm: remove remaining references to NUMA hinting bits and helpers (diff) | |
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mm: numa: do not trap faults on the huge zero page
Faults on the huge zero page are pointless and there is a BUG_ON to catch
them during fault time. This patch reintroduces a check that avoids
marking the zero page PAGE_NONE.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Kirill Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/huge_memory.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/huge_memory.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index cb9b3e847dac..8e791a3db6b6 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -1471,7 +1471,7 @@ out: * - HPAGE_PMD_NR is protections changed and TLB flush necessary */ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd, - unsigned long addr, pgprot_t newprot) + unsigned long addr, pgprot_t newprot, int prot_numa) { struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm; spinlock_t *ptl; @@ -1479,6 +1479,17 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd, if (__pmd_trans_huge_lock(pmd, vma, &ptl) == 1) { pmd_t entry; + + /* + * Avoid trapping faults against the zero page. The read-only + * data is likely to be read-cached on the local CPU and + * local/remote hits to the zero page are not interesting. + */ + if (prot_numa && is_huge_zero_pmd(*pmd)) { + spin_unlock(ptl); + return 0; + } + ret = 1; entry = pmdp_get_and_clear_notify(mm, addr, pmd); entry = pmd_modify(entry, newprot); |