On 07/20/2015 04:20 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > Tail page refcounting is utterly complicated and painful to support. > > It uses ->_mapcount on tail pages to store how many times this page is > pinned. get_page() bumps ->_mapcount on tail page in addition to > ->_count on head. This information is required by split_huge_page() to > be able to distribute pins from head of compound page to tails during > the split. > > We will need ->_mapcount to account PTE mappings of subpages of the > compound page. We eliminate need in current meaning of ->_mapcount in > tail pages by forbidding split entirely if the page is pinned. > > The only user of tail page refcounting is THP which is marked BROKEN for > now. > > Let's drop all this mess. It makes get_page() and put_page() much > simpler. > > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com> > Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.le...@oracle.com> > Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarc...@redhat.com> > --- > arch/mips/mm/gup.c | 4 - > arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 13 +- > arch/s390/mm/gup.c | 13 +- > arch/sparc/mm/gup.c | 14 +-- > arch/x86/mm/gup.c | 4 - > include/linux/mm.h | 47 ++------ > include/linux/mm_types.h | 17 +-- > mm/gup.c | 34 +----- > mm/huge_memory.c | 41 +------ > mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +- > mm/internal.h | 44 ------- > mm/swap.c | 273 > +++--------------------------------------- > 12 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 466 deletions(-) >
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