Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]> writes:

> If we fail with a allocated hugepage, we need some effort to recover
> properly. So, it is better not to allocate a hugepage as much as possible.
> So move up anon_vma_prepare() which can be failed in OOM situation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[email protected]>

>
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 2372f75..7e9a651 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -2520,6 +2520,17 @@ retry_avoidcopy:
>       spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
>
>       /*
> +      * When the original hugepage is shared one, it does not have
> +      * anon_vma prepared.
> +      */
> +     if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma))) {
> +             page_cache_release(old_page);
> +             /* Caller expects lock to be held */
> +             spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> +             return VM_FAULT_OOM;
> +     }
> +
> +     /*
>        * If the process that created a MAP_PRIVATE mapping is about to
>        * perform a COW due to a shared page count, attempt to satisfy
>        * the allocation without using the existing reserves. The pagecache
> @@ -2578,18 +2589,6 @@ retry_avoidcopy:
>               return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
>       }
>
> -     /*
> -      * When the original hugepage is shared one, it does not have
> -      * anon_vma prepared.
> -      */
> -     if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma))) {
> -             page_cache_release(new_page);
> -             page_cache_release(old_page);
> -             /* Caller expects lock to be held */
> -             spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> -             return VM_FAULT_OOM;
> -     }
> -
>       copy_user_huge_page(new_page, old_page, address, vma,
>                           pages_per_huge_page(h));
>       __SetPageUptodate(new_page);
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5

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