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-rw-r--r--mm/huge_memory.c36
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 5a68730eebd6..f0ae8d1d4329 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2356,26 +2356,13 @@ static void __split_huge_page_tail(struct page *head, int tail,
struct page *page_tail = head + tail;
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(atomic_read(&page_tail->_mapcount) != -1, page_tail);
- VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_ref_count(page_tail) != 0, page_tail);
/*
- * tail_page->_refcount is zero and not changing from under us. But
- * get_page_unless_zero() may be running from under us on the
- * tail_page. If we used atomic_set() below instead of atomic_inc() or
- * atomic_add(), we would then run atomic_set() concurrently with
- * get_page_unless_zero(), and atomic_set() is implemented in C not
- * using locked ops. spin_unlock on x86 sometime uses locked ops
- * because of PPro errata 66, 92, so unless somebody can guarantee
- * atomic_set() here would be safe on all archs (and not only on x86),
- * it's safer to use atomic_inc()/atomic_add().
+ * Clone page flags before unfreezing refcount.
+ *
+ * After successful get_page_unless_zero() might follow flags change,
+ * for exmaple lock_page() which set PG_waiters.
*/
- if (PageAnon(head) && !PageSwapCache(head)) {
- page_ref_inc(page_tail);
- } else {
- /* Additional pin to radix tree */
- page_ref_add(page_tail, 2);
- }
-
page_tail->flags &= ~PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP;
page_tail->flags |= (head->flags &
((1L << PG_referenced) |
@@ -2388,14 +2375,21 @@ static void __split_huge_page_tail(struct page *head, int tail,
(1L << PG_unevictable) |
(1L << PG_dirty)));
- /*
- * After clearing PageTail the gup refcount can be released.
- * Page flags also must be visible before we make the page non-compound.
- */
+ /* Page flags must be visible before we make the page non-compound. */
smp_wmb();
+ /*
+ * Clear PageTail before unfreezing page refcount.
+ *
+ * After successful get_page_unless_zero() might follow put_page()
+ * which needs correct compound_head().
+ */
clear_compound_head(page_tail);
+ /* Finally unfreeze refcount. Additional reference from page cache. */
+ page_ref_unfreeze(page_tail, 1 + (!PageAnon(head) ||
+ PageSwapCache(head)));
+
if (page_is_young(head))
set_page_young(page_tail);
if (page_is_idle(head))