From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com>

Instead of allocating huge zero page on hugepage_init() we can postpone it
until first huge zero page map. It saves memory if THP is not in use.

cmpxchg() is used to avoid race on huge_zero_pfn initialization.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c |   20 ++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 3a78677..6861230 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -168,21 +168,23 @@ out:
        return err;
 }
 
-static int init_huge_zero_page(void)
+static int init_huge_zero_pfn(void)
 {
        struct page *hpage;
+       unsigned long pfn;
 
        hpage = alloc_pages(GFP_TRANSHUGE | __GFP_ZERO, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
        if (!hpage)
                return -ENOMEM;
-
-       huge_zero_pfn = page_to_pfn(hpage);
+       pfn = page_to_pfn(hpage);
+       if (cmpxchg(&huge_zero_pfn, 0, pfn))
+               __free_page(hpage);
        return 0;
 }
 
 static inline bool is_huge_zero_pfn(unsigned long pfn)
 {
-       return pfn == huge_zero_pfn;
+       return huge_zero_pfn && pfn == huge_zero_pfn;
 }
 
 static inline bool is_huge_zero_pmd(pmd_t pmd)
@@ -573,10 +575,6 @@ static int __init hugepage_init(void)
        if (err)
                return err;
 
-       err = init_huge_zero_page();
-       if (err)
-               goto out;
-
        err = khugepaged_slab_init();
        if (err)
                goto out;
@@ -601,8 +599,6 @@ static int __init hugepage_init(void)
 
        return 0;
 out:
-       if (huge_zero_pfn)
-               __free_page(pfn_to_page(huge_zero_pfn));
        hugepage_exit_sysfs(hugepage_kobj);
        return err;
 }
@@ -752,6 +748,10 @@ int do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(struct mm_struct *mm, 
struct vm_area_struct *vma,
                        return VM_FAULT_OOM;
                if (!(flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE)) {
                        pgtable_t pgtable;
+                       if (unlikely(!huge_zero_pfn && init_huge_zero_pfn())) {
+                               count_vm_event(THP_FAULT_FALLBACK);
+                               goto out;
+                       }
                        pgtable = pte_alloc_one(mm, haddr);
                        if (unlikely(!pgtable))
                                goto out;
-- 
1.7.7.6

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