thp: alter compound get_page/put_page
Alter compound get_page/put_page to keep references on subpages too, in
order to allow __split_huge_page_refcount to split an hugepage even while
subpages have been pinned by one of the get_user_pages() variants.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@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>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c
index d7efdbf..fec1320 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c
@@ -16,6 +16,16 @@
#ifdef __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL
+static inline void get_huge_page_tail(struct page *page)
+{
+ /*
+ * __split_huge_page_refcount() cannot run
+ * from under us.
+ */
+ VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) < 0);
+ atomic_inc(&page->_count);
+}
+
/*
* The performance critical leaf functions are made noinline otherwise gcc
* inlines everything into a single function which results in too much
@@ -47,6 +57,8 @@
put_page(page);
return 0;
}
+ if (PageTail(page))
+ get_huge_page_tail(page);
pages[*nr] = page;
(*nr)++;