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 <[email protected]> --- mm/mprotect.c | 6 ++++-- mm/mremap.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c index 1b9597f05d7d..6ff5dfa65b33 100644 --- a/mm/mprotect.c +++ b/mm/mprotect.c @@ -160,9 +160,11 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, } if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) || pmd_devmap(*pmd)) { - if (next - addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) + if (next - addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) { split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr); - else { + if (pmd_none(*pmd)) + continue; + } else { int nr_ptes = change_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr, newprot, prot_numa); diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c index f1d18f8baa35..b43027a25982 100644 --- a/mm/mremap.c +++ b/mm/mremap.c @@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ unsigned long move_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma, } } 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, -- 2.7.0
