thp: split_huge_page anon_vma ordering dependency
This documents how split_huge_page is safe vs new vma inserctions into the
anon_vma that may have already released the anon_vma->lock but not
established pmds yet when split_huge_page starts.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 0c1e8f9..7635079 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -841,6 +841,19 @@
continue;
mapcount += __split_huge_page_splitting(page, vma, addr);
}
+ /*
+ * It is critical that new vmas are added to the tail of the
+ * anon_vma list. This guarantes that if copy_huge_pmd() runs
+ * and establishes a child pmd before
+ * __split_huge_page_splitting() freezes the parent pmd (so if
+ * we fail to prevent copy_huge_pmd() from running until the
+ * whole __split_huge_page() is complete), we will still see
+ * the newly established pmd of the child later during the
+ * walk, to be able to set it as pmd_trans_splitting too.
+ */
+ if (mapcount != page_mapcount(page))
+ printk(KERN_ERR "mapcount %d page_mapcount %d\n",
+ mapcount, page_mapcount(page));
BUG_ON(mapcount != page_mapcount(page));
__split_huge_page_refcount(page);
@@ -854,6 +867,9 @@
continue;
mapcount2 += __split_huge_page_map(page, vma, addr);
}
+ if (mapcount != mapcount2)
+ printk(KERN_ERR "mapcount %d mapcount2 %d page_mapcount %d\n",
+ mapcount, mapcount2, page_mapcount(page));
BUG_ON(mapcount != mapcount2);
}