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mm: handle PTE-mapped tail pages in gerneric fast gup implementaiton

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With new refcounting we are going to see THP tail pages mapped with PTE.
Generic fast GUP rely on page_cache_get_speculative() to obtain
reference on page.  page_cache_get_speculative() always fails on tail
pages, because ->_count on tail pages is always zero.

Let's handle tail pages in gup_pte_range().

New split_huge_page() will rely on migration entries to freeze page's
counts.  Recheck PTE value after page_cache_get_speculative() on head
page should be enough to serialize against split.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Cc: Steve Capper <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored and Linus Torvalds committed 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
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@@ -1097,7 +1097,7 @@ static int gup_pte_range(pmd_t pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
* for an example see gup_get_pte in arch/x86/mm/gup.c
*/
pte_t pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
struct page *page;
struct page *head, *page;
/*
* Similar to the PMD case below, NUMA hinting must take slow
@@ -1109,15 +1109,17 @@ static int gup_pte_range(pmd_t pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
VM_BUG_ON(!pfn_valid(pte_pfn(pte)));
page = pte_page(pte);
head = compound_head(page);
if (!page_cache_get_speculative(page))
if (!page_cache_get_speculative(head))
goto pte_unmap;
if (unlikely(pte_val(pte) != pte_val(*ptep))) {
put_page(page);
put_page(head);
goto pte_unmap;
}
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound_head(page) != head, page);
pages[*nr] = page;
(*nr)++;