mm/huge_memory: mark PMD mappings of the huge zero folio special

The huge zero folio is refcounted (+mapcounted -- is that a word?)
differently than "normal" folios, similarly (but different) to the
ordinary shared zeropage.

For this reason, we special-case these pages in
vm_normal_page*/vm_normal_folio*, and only allow selected callers to still
use them (e.g., GUP can still take a reference on them).

vm_normal_page_pmd() already filters out the huge zero folio, to indicate
it a special (return NULL).  However, so far we are not making use of
pmd_special() on architectures that support it
(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL), like we would with the ordinary shared
zeropage.

Let's mark PMD mappings of the huge zero folio similarly as special, so we
can avoid the manual check for the huge zero folio with
CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL next, and only perform the check on
!CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL.

In copy_huge_pmd(), where we have a manual pmd_special() check to handle
PFNMAP, we have to manually rule out the huge zero folio.  That code needs
a serious cleanup, but that's something for another day.

While at it, update the doc regarding the shared zero folios.

No functional change intended: vm_normal_page_pmd() still returns NULL
when it encounters the huge zero folio.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250811112631.759341-6-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Juegren Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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