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-rw-r--r--mm/huge_memory.c13
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);