On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 02:33:44PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> 
> > diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> > index ff834ea..0d903bf 100644
> > --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> > +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> > @@ -701,6 +701,18 @@ static inline struct page *alloc_hugepage(int defrag)
> >  }
> >  #endif
> >  
> > +static void set_huge_zero_page(pgtable_t pgtable, struct mm_struct *mm,
> > +           struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long haddr, pmd_t *pmd)
> > +{
> > +   pmd_t entry;
> > +   entry = pfn_pmd(huge_zero_pfn, vma->vm_page_prot);
> > +   entry = pmd_wrprotect(entry);
> > +   entry = pmd_mkhuge(entry);
> > +   set_pmd_at(mm, haddr, pmd, entry);
> > +   pgtable_trans_huge_deposit(mm, pgtable);
> > +   mm->nr_ptes++;
> > +}
> > +
> >  int do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct 
> > *vma,
> >                            unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmd,
> >                            unsigned int flags)
> > @@ -778,6 +790,11 @@ int copy_huge_pmd(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct 
> > mm_struct *src_mm,
> >             pte_free(dst_mm, pgtable);
> >             goto out_unlock;
> >     }
> > +   if (is_huge_zero_pmd(pmd)) {
> > +           set_huge_zero_page(pgtable, dst_mm, vma, addr, dst_pmd);
> > +           ret = 0;
> > +           goto out_unlock;
> > +   }
> 
> You said in the introduction message in this series that you still allow 
> splitting of the pmd, so why no check for pmd_trans_splitting() before 
> this?

pmd_trans_splitting() returns true only for pmd which points to a page
under spliiting. It never happens with huge zero page.
We only split a pmd to a page table without touching the page.
mm->page_table_lock is enough to protect against that.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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