From e944fd67b625c02bda4a78ddf85e413c5e401474 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 14:58:35 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] mm: numa: do not trap faults on the huge zero page
Faults on the huge zero page are pointless and there is a BUG_ON to catch
them during fault time. This patch reintroduces a check that avoids
marking the zero page PAGE_NONE.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Kirill Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
include/linux/huge_mm.h | 3 ++-
mm/huge_memory.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
mm/memory.c | 1 -
mm/mprotect.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
index 062bd252e994..f10b20f05159 100644
--- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ extern int move_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long new_addr, unsigned long old_end,
pmd_t *old_pmd, pmd_t *new_pmd);
extern 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);
enum transparent_hugepage_flag {
TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_FLAG,
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);
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index d7921760cf79..bf244f56b05a 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3040,7 +3040,6 @@ static int do_numa_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
return 0;
}
- BUG_ON(is_zero_pfn(page_to_pfn(page)));
/*
* Avoid grouping on DSO/COW pages in specific and RO pages
diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
index 76824d73380d..dd599fc235c2 100644
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -76,6 +76,18 @@ static unsigned long change_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
if (pte_present(oldpte)) {
pte_t ptent;
+ /*
+ * Avoid trapping faults against the zero or KSM
+ * pages. See similar comment in change_huge_pmd.
+ */
+ if (prot_numa) {
+ struct page *page;
+
+ page = vm_normal_page(vma, addr, oldpte);
+ if (!page || PageKsm(page))
+ continue;
+ }
+
ptent = ptep_modify_prot_start(mm, addr, pte);
ptent = pte_modify(ptent, newprot);
@@ -142,7 +154,7 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
split_huge_page_pmd(vma, addr, pmd);
else {
int nr_ptes = change_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr,
- newprot);
+ newprot, prot_numa);
if (nr_ptes) {
if (nr_ptes == HPAGE_PMD_NR) {