mm, dax: check for pmd_none() after split_huge_pmd()
DAX implements split_huge_pmd() by clearing pmd. This simple approach
reduces memory overhead, as we don't need to deposit page table on huge
page mapping to make split_huge_pmd() never-fail. PTE table can be
allocated and populated later on page fault from backing store.
But one side effect is that have to check if pmd is pmd_none() after
split_huge_pmd(). In most places we do this already to deal with
parallel MADV_DONTNEED.
But I found two call sites which is not affected by MADV_DONTNEED (due
down_write(mmap_sem)), but need to have the check to work with DAX
properly.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
index d77946a..8eeba02 100644
--- a/mm/mremap.c
+++ b/mm/mremap.c
@@ -210,6 +210,8 @@
}
}
split_huge_pmd(vma, old_pmd, old_addr);
+ if (pmd_none(*old_pmd))
+ continue;
VM_BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*old_pmd));
}
if (pmd_none(*new_pmd) && __pte_alloc(new_vma->vm_mm, new_vma,