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When walking the page tables to resolve an address that points to !p*d_present() entry, huge_pte_offset() returns inconsistent values depending on the level of page table (PUD or PMD). It returns NULL in the case of a PUD entry while in the case of a PMD entry, it returns a pointer to the page table entry. A similar inconsitency exists when handling swap entries - returns NULL for a PUD entry while a pointer to the pte_t is retured for the PMD entry. Update huge_pte_offset() to make the behaviour consistent - return a pointer to the pte_t for hugepage or swap entries. Only return NULL in instances where we have a p*d_none() entry and the size parameter doesn't match the hugepage size at this level of the page table. Document the behaviour to clarify the expected behaviour of this function. This is to set clear semantics for architecture specific implementations of huge_pte_offset(). Discussions on the arm64 implementation of huge_pte_offset() (http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg133699.html) showed that there is benefit from returning a pte_t* in the case of p*d_none(). The fault handling code in hugetlb_fault() can handle p*d_none() entries and saves an extra round trip to huge_pte_alloc(). Other callers of huge_pte_offset() should be ok as well. [punit.agrawal@arm.com: v2] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170725154114.24131-2-punit.agrawal@arm.com Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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README
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.