"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com> writes:
> Current split_huge_page() combines two operations: splitting PMDs into
> tables of PTEs and splitting underlying compound page. This patch
> changes split_huge_pmd() implementation to split the given PMD without
> splitting other PMDs this page mapped with or underlying compound page.
>
> In order to do this we have to get rid of tail page refcounting, which
> uses _mapcount of tail pages. Tail page refcounting is needed to be able
> to split THP page at any point: we always know which of tail pages is
> pinned (i.e. by get_user_pages()) and can distribute page count
> correctly.
>
> We can avoid this by allowing split_huge_page() to fail if the compound
> page is pinned. This patch removes all infrastructure for tail page
> refcounting and make split_huge_page() to always return -EBUSY. All
> split_huge_page() users already know how to handle its fail. Proper
> implementation will be added later.
>
> Without tail page refcounting, implementation of split_huge_pmd() is
> pretty straight-forward.
>
> Memory cgroup is not yet ready for new refcouting. Let's disable it on
> Kconfig level.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com>
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.....
> static inline int page_mapped(struct page *page)
> {
> - return atomic_read(&(page)->_mapcount) + compound_mapcount(page) >= 0;
> + int i;
> + if (likely(!PageCompound(page)))
> + return atomic_read(&page->_mapcount) >= 0;
> + if (compound_mapcount(page))
> + return 1;
> + for (i = 0; i < hpage_nr_pages(page); i++) {
> + if (atomic_read(&page[i]._mapcount) >= 0)
> + return 1;
> + }
do we need to loop with head page here ? ie,
page = compound_page(page);
> + return 0;
> }
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