On 10/02/2012 11:19 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com>

We can't split huge zero page itself, but we can split the pmd which
points to it.

On splitting the pmd we create a table with all ptes set to normal zero
page.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com>
---
  mm/huge_memory.c |   32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  1 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 95032d3..3f1c59c 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1600,6 +1600,7 @@ int split_huge_page(struct page *page)
        struct anon_vma *anon_vma;
        int ret = 1;
+ BUG_ON(is_huge_zero_pfn(page_to_pfn(page)));
        BUG_ON(!PageAnon(page));
        anon_vma = page_lock_anon_vma(page);
        if (!anon_vma)
@@ -2503,6 +2504,32 @@ static int khugepaged(void *none)
        return 0;
  }
+static void __split_huge_zero_page_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+               unsigned long haddr, pmd_t *pmd)
+{
+       pgtable_t pgtable;
+       pmd_t _pmd;
+       int i;
+
+       pmdp_clear_flush_notify(vma, haddr, pmd);

why I can't find function pmdp_clear_flush_notify in kernel source code? Do you mean pmdp_clear_flush_young_notify or something like that?

+       /* leave pmd empty until pte is filled */
+
+       pgtable = get_pmd_huge_pte(vma->vm_mm);
+       pmd_populate(vma->vm_mm, &_pmd, pgtable);
+
+       for (i = 0; i < HPAGE_PMD_NR; i++, haddr += PAGE_SIZE) {
+               pte_t *pte, entry;
+               entry = pfn_pte(my_zero_pfn(haddr), vma->vm_page_prot);
+               entry = pte_mkspecial(entry);
+               pte = pte_offset_map(&_pmd, haddr);
+               VM_BUG_ON(!pte_none(*pte));
+               set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, haddr, pte, entry);
+               pte_unmap(pte);
+       }
+       smp_wmb(); /* make pte visible before pmd */
+       pmd_populate(vma->vm_mm, pmd, pgtable);
+}
+
  void __split_huge_page_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
                pmd_t *pmd)
  {
@@ -2516,6 +2543,11 @@ void __split_huge_page_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, 
unsigned long address,
                spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
                return;
        }
+       if (is_huge_zero_pmd(*pmd)) {
+               __split_huge_zero_page_pmd(vma, haddr, pmd);
+               spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
+               return;
+       }
        page = pmd_page(*pmd);
        VM_BUG_ON(!page_count(page));
        get_page(page);

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