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author | David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> | 2014-10-29 14:50:31 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-10-29 16:33:14 -0700 |
commit | 6d50e60cd2edb5a57154db5a6f64eef5aa59b751 (patch) | |
tree | 025056e23d57062c5e045d54613edc2e2fc4ca86 /mm/mmap.c | |
parent | 47f29df7db78ee4fcdb104cf36918d987ddd0278 (diff) | |
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mm, thp: fix collapsing of hugepages on madvise
If an anonymous mapping is not allowed to fault thp memory and then
madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) is used after fault, khugepaged will never
collapse this memory into thp memory.
This occurs because the madvise(2) handler for thp, hugepage_madvise(),
clears VM_NOHUGEPAGE on the stack and it isn't stored in vma->vm_flags
until the final action of madvise_behavior(). This causes the
khugepaged_enter_vma_merge() to be a no-op in hugepage_madvise() when
the vma had previously had VM_NOHUGEPAGE set.
Fix this by passing the correct vma flags to the khugepaged mm slot
handler. There's no chance khugepaged can run on this vma until after
madvise_behavior() returns since we hold mm->mmap_sem.
It would be possible to clear VM_NOHUGEPAGE directly from vma->vm_flags
in hugepage_advise(), but I didn't want to introduce special case
behavior into madvise_behavior(). I think it's best to just let it
always set vma->vm_flags itself.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mmap.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/mmap.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 7f855206e7fb..87e82b38453c 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vma_merge(struct mm_struct *mm, end, prev->vm_pgoff, NULL); if (err) return NULL; - khugepaged_enter_vma_merge(prev); + khugepaged_enter_vma_merge(prev, vm_flags); return prev; } @@ -1099,7 +1099,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vma_merge(struct mm_struct *mm, next->vm_pgoff - pglen, NULL); if (err) return NULL; - khugepaged_enter_vma_merge(area); + khugepaged_enter_vma_merge(area, vm_flags); return area; } @@ -2208,7 +2208,7 @@ int expand_upwards(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address) } } vma_unlock_anon_vma(vma); - khugepaged_enter_vma_merge(vma); + khugepaged_enter_vma_merge(vma, vma->vm_flags); validate_mm(vma->vm_mm); return error; } @@ -2277,7 +2277,7 @@ int expand_downwards(struct vm_area_struct *vma, } } vma_unlock_anon_vma(vma); - khugepaged_enter_vma_merge(vma); + khugepaged_enter_vma_merge(vma, vma->vm_flags); validate_mm(vma->vm_mm); return error; } |