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author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> | 2014-10-02 19:47:42 +0100 |
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committer | Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> | 2014-10-13 16:09:20 +0200 |
commit | 91d5b067629d4880f8ce6386c6af6bd64579e124 (patch) | |
tree | dec0d6b6d5234bbd278da092e498f8e78bd073f4 /include/media | |
parent | 46710d8df2c62648e35fff8ceb160ad5122d7893 (diff) |
mm: numa: Do not mark PTEs pte_numa when splitting huge pages
commit abc40bd2eeb77eb7c2effcaf63154aad929a1d5f upstream.
This patch reverts 1ba6e0b50b ("mm: numa: split_huge_page: transfer the
NUMA type from the pmd to the pte"). If a huge page is being split due
a protection change and the tail will be in a PROT_NONE vma then NUMA
hinting PTEs are temporarily created in the protected VMA.
VM_RW|VM_PROTNONE
|-----------------|
^
split here
In the specific case above, it should get fixed up by change_pte_range()
but there is a window of opportunity for weirdness to happen. Similarly,
if a huge page is shrunk and split during a protection update but before
pmd_numa is cleared then a pte_numa can be left behind.
Instead of adding complexity trying to deal with the case, this patch
will not mark PTEs NUMA when splitting a huge page. NUMA hinting faults
will not be triggered which is marginal in comparison to the complexity
in dealing with the corner cases during THP split.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
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