[RFC PATCH 1/7] mm: Introduce vma_is_special_huge

From: Thomas HellstrÃm (VMware)
Date: Wed Nov 27 2019 - 03:32:15 EST


From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>

For VM_PFNMAP and VM_MIXEDMAP vmas that want to support transhuge pages
and -page table entries, introduce vma_is_special_huge() that takes the
same codepaths as vma_is_dax().

The use of "special" follows the definition in memory.c, vm_normal_page():
"Special" mappings do not wish to be associated with a "struct page"
(either it doesn't exist, or it exists but they don't want to touch it)

For PAGE_SIZE pages, "special" is determined per page table entry to be
able to deal with COW pages. But since we don't have huge COW pages,
we can classify a vma as either "special huge" or "normal huge".

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "JÃrÃme Glisse" <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Christian KÃnig" <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 6 ++++++
mm/huge_memory.c | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 29575d3c1e47..1ee45ef306d8 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2838,6 +2838,12 @@ extern long copy_huge_page_from_user(struct page *dst_page,
const void __user *usr_src,
unsigned int pages_per_huge_page,
bool allow_pagefault);
+static inline bool vma_is_special_huge(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ return vma_is_dax(vma) || (vma->vm_file &&
+ (vma->vm_flags & (VM_PFNMAP | VM_MIXEDMAP)));
+}
+
#endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE || CONFIG_HUGETLBFS */

#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 13cc93785006..3c83467f09b2 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1789,7 +1789,7 @@ int zap_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
orig_pmd = pmdp_huge_get_and_clear_full(tlb->mm, addr, pmd,
tlb->fullmm);
tlb_remove_pmd_tlb_entry(tlb, pmd, addr);
- if (vma_is_dax(vma)) {
+ if (vma_is_special_huge(vma)) {
if (arch_needs_pgtable_deposit())
zap_deposited_table(tlb->mm, pmd);
spin_unlock(ptl);
@@ -2053,7 +2053,7 @@ int zap_huge_pud(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
*/
pudp_huge_get_and_clear_full(tlb->mm, addr, pud, tlb->fullmm);
tlb_remove_pud_tlb_entry(tlb, pud, addr);
- if (vma_is_dax(vma)) {
+ if (vma_is_special_huge(vma)) {
spin_unlock(ptl);
/* No zero page support yet */
} else {
@@ -2162,7 +2162,7 @@ static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
*/
if (arch_needs_pgtable_deposit())
zap_deposited_table(mm, pmd);
- if (vma_is_dax(vma))
+ if (vma_is_special_huge(vma))
return;
page = pmd_page(_pmd);
if (!PageDirty(page) && pmd_dirty(_pmd))
--
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