[PATCH] mm:mempolicy: skip VM_HUGETLB and VM_MIXEDMAP VMA for lazy mbind

From: Liang Chen
Date: Mon Jan 18 2016 - 09:04:23 EST


VM_HUGETLB and VM_MIXEDMAP vma needs to be excluded to avoid compound
pages being marked for migration and unexpected COWs when handling
hugetlb fault.

Thanks to Naoya Horiguchi for reminding me on these checks.

Signed-off-by: Liang Chen <liangchen.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 436ff411..415de70 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -610,8 +610,9 @@ static int queue_pages_test_walk(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,

if (flags & MPOL_MF_LAZY) {
/* Similar to task_numa_work, skip inaccessible VMAs */
- if (vma_migratable(vma) &&
- vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ | VM_EXEC | VM_WRITE))
+ if (vma_migratable(vma) && !is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma) &&
+ (vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ | VM_EXEC | VM_WRITE)) &&
+ !(vma->vm_flags & VM_MIXEDMAP))
change_prot_numa(vma, start, endvma);
return 1;
}
--
1.9.1