From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Natively handle huge pmds when changing page tables on behalf of mprotect(). I left out update_mmu_cache() because we do not need it on x86 anyway but more importantly the interface works on ptes, not pmds. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h --- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h +++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h @@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ extern int zap_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gathe extern int mincore_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, unsigned char *vec); +extern int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd, + unsigned long addr, pgprot_t newprot); enum transparent_hugepage_flag { TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_FLAG, diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -961,6 +961,33 @@ int mincore_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_stru return ret; } +int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd, + unsigned long addr, pgprot_t newprot) +{ + struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm; + int ret = 0; + + spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock); + if (likely(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd))) { + if (unlikely(pmd_trans_splitting(*pmd))) { + spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock); + wait_split_huge_page(vma->anon_vma, pmd); + } else { + pmd_t entry; + + entry = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd); + entry = pmd_modify(entry, newprot); + set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, entry); + spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock); + flush_tlb_range(vma, addr, addr + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE); + ret = 1; + } + } else + spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock); + + return ret; +} + pmd_t *page_check_address_pmd(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address, diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c --- a/mm/mprotect.c +++ b/mm/mprotect.c @@ -90,7 +90,13 @@ static inline void change_pmd_range(stru pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr); do { next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end); - split_huge_page_pmd(vma->vm_mm, pmd); + if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) { + if (next - addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) + split_huge_page_pmd(vma->vm_mm, pmd); + else if (change_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr, newprot)) + continue; + /* fall through */ + } if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd)) continue; change_pte_range(vma, pmd, addr, next, newprot, dirty_accountable); -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>