thp: handle file COW faults
authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Tue, 26 Jul 2016 22:25:40 +0000 (15:25 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 26 Jul 2016 23:19:19 +0000 (16:19 -0700)
File COW for THP is handled on pte level: just split the pmd.

It's not clear how benefitial would be allocation of huge pages on COW
faults.  And it would require some code to make them work.

I think at some point we can consider teaching khugepaged to collapse
pages in COW mappings, but allocating huge on fault is probably
overkill.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-16-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>
mm/memory.c

index 10a424e..8f42547 100644 (file)
@@ -3446,6 +3446,11 @@ static int wp_huge_pmd(struct fault_env *fe, pmd_t orig_pmd)
        if (fe->vma->vm_ops->pmd_fault)
                return fe->vma->vm_ops->pmd_fault(fe->vma, fe->address, fe->pmd,
                                fe->flags);
+
+       /* COW handled on pte level: split pmd */
+       VM_BUG_ON_VMA(fe->vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED, fe->vma);
+       split_huge_pmd(fe->vma, fe->pmd, fe->address);
+
        return VM_FAULT_FALLBACK;
 }