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thp: split_huge_page anon_vma ordering dependency 

This documents how split_huge_page is safe vs new vma inserctions into the
anon_vma that may have already released the anon_vma->lock but not
established pmds yet when split_huge_page starts.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Andrea Arcangeli 2011-01-13 15:46:53 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 8a07651ee8
commit 05759d380a
2 changed files with 20 additions and 0 deletions
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mm/huge_memory.c
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@ -841,6 +841,19 @@ static void __split_huge_page(struct page *page,
continue;
mapcount += __split_huge_page_splitting(page, vma, addr);
}
/*
* It is critical that new vmas are added to the tail of the
* anon_vma list. This guarantes that if copy_huge_pmd() runs
* and establishes a child pmd before
* __split_huge_page_splitting() freezes the parent pmd (so if
* we fail to prevent copy_huge_pmd() from running until the
* whole __split_huge_page() is complete), we will still see
* the newly established pmd of the child later during the
* walk, to be able to set it as pmd_trans_splitting too.
*/
if (mapcount != page_mapcount(page))
printk(KERN_ERR "mapcount %d page_mapcount %d\n",
mapcount, page_mapcount(page));
BUG_ON(mapcount != page_mapcount(page));
__split_huge_page_refcount(page);
@ -854,6 +867,9 @@ static void __split_huge_page(struct page *page,
continue;
mapcount2 += __split_huge_page_map(page, vma, addr);
}
if (mapcount != mapcount2)
printk(KERN_ERR "mapcount %d mapcount2 %d page_mapcount %d\n",
mapcount, mapcount2, page_mapcount(page));
BUG_ON(mapcount != mapcount2);
}

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mm/rmap.c
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@ -177,6 +177,10 @@ static void anon_vma_chain_link(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
list_add(&avc->same_vma, &vma->anon_vma_chain);
anon_vma_lock(anon_vma);
/*
* It's critical to add new vmas to the tail of the anon_vma,
* see comment in huge_memory.c:__split_huge_page().
*/
list_add_tail(&avc->same_anon_vma, &anon_vma->head);
anon_vma_unlock(anon_vma);
}