[PATCH 1/3] s390: gup_huge_pmd() support THP tail recounting

From: Andrea Arcangeli
Date: Mon Oct 17 2011 - 10:42:35 EST


Up to this point the code assumed old refcounting for hugepages
(pre-thp). This updates the code directly to the thp mapcount tail
page refcounting.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/s390/mm/gup.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/gup.c b/arch/s390/mm/gup.c
index 45b405c..668dda9 100644
--- a/arch/s390/mm/gup.c
+++ b/arch/s390/mm/gup.c
@@ -48,11 +48,22 @@ static inline int gup_pte_range(pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t pmd, unsigned long addr,
return 1;
}

+static inline void get_huge_page_tail(struct page *page)
+{
+ /*
+ * __split_huge_page_refcount() cannot run
+ * from under us.
+ */
+ VM_BUG_ON(page_mapcount(page) < 0);
+ VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) != 0);
+ atomic_inc(&page->_mapcount);
+}
+
static inline int gup_huge_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t pmd, unsigned long addr,
unsigned long end, int write, struct page **pages, int *nr)
{
unsigned long mask, result;
- struct page *head, *page;
+ struct page *head, *page, *tail;
int refs;

result = write ? 0 : _SEGMENT_ENTRY_RO;
@@ -64,6 +75,7 @@ static inline int gup_huge_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t pmd, unsigned long addr,
refs = 0;
head = pmd_page(pmd);
page = head + ((addr & ~PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+ tail = page;
do {
VM_BUG_ON(compound_head(page) != head);
pages[*nr] = page;
@@ -81,6 +93,16 @@ static inline int gup_huge_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t pmd, unsigned long addr,
*nr -= refs;
while (refs--)
put_page(head);
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * Any tail page need their mapcount reference taken
+ * before we return.
+ */
+ while (refs--) {
+ if (PageTail(tail))
+ get_huge_page_tail(tail);
+ tail++;
+ }
}

return 1;
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