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…p page cache.

With THP page cache, when trying to build a huge page from regular pte
pages, we just clear the pmd entry.  We will take another fault and at
that point we will find the huge page in the radix tree, thereby using
the huge page to complete the page fault

The second fault path will allocate the needed pgtable_t page for archs
like ppc64.  So no need to deposit the same in collapse path.
Depositing them in the collapse path resulting in a pgtable_t memory
leak also giving errors like

  BUG: non-zero nr_ptes on freeing mm: 3

Fixes: 953c66c ("mm: THP page cache support for ppc64")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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kvaneesh authored and torvalds committed Jan 11, 2017
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21 changes: 2 additions & 19 deletions mm/khugepaged.c
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Expand Up @@ -1242,7 +1242,6 @@ static void retract_page_tables(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t pgoff)
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
unsigned long addr;
pmd_t *pmd, _pmd;
bool deposited = false;

i_mmap_lock_write(mapping);
vma_interval_tree_foreach(vma, &mapping->i_mmap, pgoff, pgoff) {
Expand All @@ -1267,26 +1266,10 @@ static void retract_page_tables(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t pgoff)
spinlock_t *ptl = pmd_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd);
/* assume page table is clear */
_pmd = pmdp_collapse_flush(vma, addr, pmd);
/*
* now deposit the pgtable for arch that need it
* otherwise free it.
*/
if (arch_needs_pgtable_deposit()) {
/*
* The deposit should be visibile only after
* collapse is seen by others.
*/
smp_wmb();
pgtable_trans_huge_deposit(vma->vm_mm, pmd,
pmd_pgtable(_pmd));
deposited = true;
}
spin_unlock(ptl);
up_write(&vma->vm_mm->mmap_sem);
if (!deposited) {
atomic_long_dec(&vma->vm_mm->nr_ptes);
pte_free(vma->vm_mm, pmd_pgtable(_pmd));
}
atomic_long_dec(&vma->vm_mm->nr_ptes);
pte_free(vma->vm_mm, pmd_pgtable(_pmd));
}
}
i_mmap_unlock_write(mapping);
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