mm: add a pmd_fault handler

Allow non-anonymous VMAs to provide huge pages in response to a page fault. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> Cc: Hillf Danton <[email protected]> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <[email protected]> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
mrcsosa · Sep 8, 2015 · b96375f · b96375f
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diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -249,6 +249,8 @@ struct vm_operations_struct {
 	void (*close)(struct vm_area_struct * area);
 	int (*mremap)(struct vm_area_struct * area);
 	int (*fault)(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf);
+	int (*pmd_fault)(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long address,
+						pmd_t *, unsigned int flags);
 	void (*map_pages)(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf);
 
 	/* notification that a previously read-only page is about to become

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3232,6 +3232,27 @@ static int do_numa_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int create_huge_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+			unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmd, unsigned int flags)
+{
+	if (!vma->vm_ops)
+		return do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(mm, vma, address, pmd, flags);
+	if (vma->vm_ops->pmd_fault)
+		return vma->vm_ops->pmd_fault(vma, address, pmd, flags);
+	return VM_FAULT_FALLBACK;
+}
+
+static int wp_huge_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+			unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmd, pmd_t orig_pmd,
+			unsigned int flags)
+{
+	if (!vma->vm_ops)
+		return do_huge_pmd_wp_page(mm, vma, address, pmd, orig_pmd);
+	if (vma->vm_ops->pmd_fault)
+		return vma->vm_ops->pmd_fault(vma, address, pmd, flags);
+	return VM_FAULT_FALLBACK;
+}
+
 /*
  * These routines also need to handle stuff like marking pages dirty
  * and/or accessed for architectures that don't do it in hardware (most
@@ -3334,10 +3355,7 @@ static int __handle_mm_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (!pmd)
 		return VM_FAULT_OOM;
 	if (pmd_none(*pmd) && transparent_hugepage_enabled(vma)) {
-		int ret = VM_FAULT_FALLBACK;
-		if (!vma->vm_ops)
-			ret = do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(mm, vma, address,
-					pmd, flags);
+		int ret = create_huge_pmd(mm, vma, address, pmd, flags);
 		if (!(ret & VM_FAULT_FALLBACK))
 			return ret;
 	} else {
@@ -3361,8 +3379,8 @@ static int __handle_mm_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 							     orig_pmd, pmd);
 
 			if (dirty && !pmd_write(orig_pmd)) {
-				ret = do_huge_pmd_wp_page(mm, vma, address, pmd,
-							  orig_pmd);
+				ret = wp_huge_pmd(mm, vma, address, pmd,
+							orig_pmd, flags);
 				if (!(ret & VM_FAULT_FALLBACK))
 					return ret;
 			} else {