[patch added to the 3.12 stable tree] mm, thp: move invariant bug check out of loop in __split_huge_page_map

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From: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@xxxxxx>

This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.

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commit f8303c2582b889351e261ff18c4d8eb197a77db2 upstream.

In __split_huge_page_map(), the check for page_mapcount(page) is
invariant within the for loop.  Because of the fact that the macro is
implemented using atomic_read(), the redundant check cannot be optimized
away by the compiler leading to unnecessary read to the page structure.

This patch moves the invariant bug check out of the loop so that it will
be done only once.  On a 3.16-rc1 based kernel, the execution time of a
microbenchmark that broke up 1000 transparent huge pages using munmap()
had an execution time of 38,245us and 38,548us with and without the
patch respectively.  The performance gain is about 1%.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 2ee53749eb48..8cb7a45094bc 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1740,6 +1740,8 @@ static int __split_huge_page_map(struct page *page,
 	if (pmd) {
 		pgtable = pgtable_trans_huge_withdraw(mm, pmd);
 		pmd_populate(mm, &_pmd, pgtable);
+		if (pmd_write(*pmd))
+			BUG_ON(page_mapcount(page) != 1);
 
 		haddr = address;
 		for (i = 0; i < HPAGE_PMD_NR; i++, haddr += PAGE_SIZE) {
@@ -1749,8 +1751,6 @@ static int __split_huge_page_map(struct page *page,
 			entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
 			if (!pmd_write(*pmd))
 				entry = pte_wrprotect(entry);
-			else
-				BUG_ON(page_mapcount(page) != 1);
 			if (!pmd_young(*pmd))
 				entry = pte_mkold(entry);
 			if (pmd_numa(*pmd))
-- 
2.1.1

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