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Commit 78f11a25 authored by Andrea Arcangeli's avatar Andrea Arcangeli Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: thp: fix /dev/zero MAP_PRIVATE and vm_flags cleanups

The huge_memory.c THP page fault was allowed to run if vm_ops was null
(which would succeed for /dev/zero MAP_PRIVATE, as the f_op->mmap wouldn't
setup a special vma->vm_ops and it would fallback to regular anonymous
memory) but other THP logics weren't fully activated for vmas with vm_file
not NULL (/dev/zero has a not NULL vma->vm_file).

So this removes the vm_file checks so that /dev/zero also can safely use
THP (the other albeit safer approach to fix this bug would have been to
prevent the THP initial page fault to run if vm_file was set).

After removing the vm_file checks, this also makes huge_memory.c stricter
in khugepaged for the DEBUG_VM=y case.  It doesn't replace the vm_file
check with a is_pfn_mapping check (but it keeps checking for VM_PFNMAP
under VM_BUG_ON) because for a is_cow_mapping() mapping VM_PFNMAP should
only be allowed to exist before the first page fault, and in turn when
vma->anon_vma is null (so preventing khugepaged registration).  So I tend
to think the previous comment saying if vm_file was set, VM_PFNMAP might
have been set and we could still be registered in khugepaged (despite
anon_vma was not NULL to be registered in khugepaged) was too paranoid.
The is_linear_pfn_mapping check is also I think superfluous (as described
by comment) but under DEBUG_VM it is safe to stay.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33682



Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reported-by: default avatarCaspar Zhang <bugs@casparzhang.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.38.x]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 6d4831c2
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