mm: postpone page table allocation until we have page to map
authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Tue, 26 Jul 2016 22:25:23 +0000 (15:25 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 26 Jul 2016 23:19:19 +0000 (16:19 -0700)
commit7267ec008b5cd8b3579e188b1ff238815643e372
tree06e45eb3b7b951799e452403dfaf77fefb726b54
parentbae473a423f65e480db83c85b5e92254f6dfcb28
mm: postpone page table allocation until we have page to map

The idea (and most of code) is borrowed again: from Hugh's patchset on
huge tmpfs[1].

Instead of allocation pte page table upfront, we postpone this until we
have page to map in hands.  This approach opens possibility to map the
page as huge if filesystem supports this.

Comparing to Hugh's patch I've pushed page table allocation a bit
further: into do_set_pte().  This way we can postpone allocation even in
faultaround case without moving do_fault_around() after __do_fault().

do_set_pte() got renamed to alloc_set_pte() as it can allocate page
table if required.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1502202015090.14414@eggly.anvils

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-10-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mm.h
mm/filemap.c
mm/memory.c