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mm/thp/pagecache/collapse: free the pte page table on collapse for thp page cache.
authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 11 Jan 2017 00:57:18 +0000 (16:57 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 11 Jan 2017 02:31:54 +0000 (18:31 -0800)
With THP page cache, when trying to build a huge page from regular pte
pages, we just clear the pmd entry.  We will take another fault and at
that point we will find the huge page in the radix tree, thereby using
the huge page to complete the page fault

The second fault path will allocate the needed pgtable_t page for archs
like ppc64.  So no need to deposit the same in collapse path.
Depositing them in the collapse path resulting in a pgtable_t memory
leak also giving errors like

  BUG: non-zero nr_ptes on freeing mm: 3

Fixes: 953c66c2b22a ("mm: THP page cache support for ppc64")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161212163428.6780-2-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/khugepaged.c

index e32389a970305eaf60b36da896e2226a8ce18a0d..b0924a68cc365ce30d28710b4fa36cf87f81aa9a 100644 (file)
@@ -1242,7 +1242,6 @@ static void retract_page_tables(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t pgoff)
        struct vm_area_struct *vma;
        unsigned long addr;
        pmd_t *pmd, _pmd;
-       bool deposited = false;
 
        i_mmap_lock_write(mapping);
        vma_interval_tree_foreach(vma, &mapping->i_mmap, pgoff, pgoff) {
@@ -1267,26 +1266,10 @@ static void retract_page_tables(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t pgoff)
                        spinlock_t *ptl = pmd_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd);
                        /* assume page table is clear */
                        _pmd = pmdp_collapse_flush(vma, addr, pmd);
-                       /*
-                        * now deposit the pgtable for arch that need it
-                        * otherwise free it.
-                        */
-                       if (arch_needs_pgtable_deposit()) {
-                               /*
-                                * The deposit should be visibile only after
-                                * collapse is seen by others.
-                                */
-                               smp_wmb();
-                               pgtable_trans_huge_deposit(vma->vm_mm, pmd,
-                                                          pmd_pgtable(_pmd));
-                               deposited = true;
-                       }
                        spin_unlock(ptl);
                        up_write(&vma->vm_mm->mmap_sem);
-                       if (!deposited) {
-                               atomic_long_dec(&vma->vm_mm->nr_ptes);
-                               pte_free(vma->vm_mm, pmd_pgtable(_pmd));
-                       }
+                       atomic_long_dec(&vma->vm_mm->nr_ptes);
+                       pte_free(vma->vm_mm, pmd_pgtable(_pmd));
                }
        }
        i_mmap_unlock_write(mapping);